This Day in History

[Susan]

January 26 in royal history:

January 26, 1763 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, French Marshall, later Charles XIV, King of Sweden and Norway, in Pau, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV

January 26, 1876 – Death of Amélia of Leuchtenberg, second wife of Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal, in Lisbon; buried first in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, since 1982 in the Ipiranga monument in São Paulo, Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9li ... uchtenberg

January 26, 1947 – Death of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf and father of Carl XVI Gustaf, in an airplane crash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Gus ... sterbotten

[Susan]

January 27 in royal history:

January 27, 1708 – Birth of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Peter I (the Great) and Catherine I of Russia, mother of Peter III, in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Anna Petrovna died at age 20, several days after giving birth to her son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Petrovna_of_Russia

January 27, 1773 - Birth of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of George III at Buckingham Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Aug ... _of_Sussex

January 27, 1836 – Death of Wilhelmine of Baden, wife of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmine_of_Baden

January 27, 1859 - Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II, son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal, at Berlin, Germany
Full name: Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany

January 27, 2001 – Death of Marie José of Belgium, wife of Umberto II of Italy, at Geneva, Switzerland; buried at the Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, Savoy, France
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1141249.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Jos%C3%A9_of_Belgium

[Susan]

January 28, 814 - Death of Charlemagne at Aachen, Germany; buried at the Aachen Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne

January 28, 1271 – Death of Isabella of Aragon, wife of Philip III of France; buried at the Basilica of St. Denis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Aragon

January 28, 1457 - Birth of Henry VII at Pembroke Castle, Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England

January 28, 1547 - Death of Henry VIII at Whitehall Palace, London; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England

January 28, 1768 - Birth of Frederik VI of Denmark and Norway at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_VI

January 28, 1845 – Death of Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, first wife of Adolphe of Nassau, the future Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in childbirth at Castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden; buried at the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth in Wiesbaden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_ ... _of_Russia

January 28, 1941 - Death of Alfonso XIII of Spain, in exile, in Rome, Italy; first buried at Church of Santa Maria di Monserrato, the Spanish national church in Rome, in 1980 his remains were transferred to San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII

January 28, 1941- Birth of Susan Cullen-Ward, wife of King Leka I of Albania, pretender to the Albanian throne, in Waverley, Sydney, Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Cullen-Ward

January 28, 1950 – Birth of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, in Riffa, Bahrain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad_ibn_Isa_Al_Khalifah

[Susan]

January 29 in royal history:

January 29, 1601 – Death of Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, wife of Henri III of France, at Moulins, Allier in France; first buried at was buried at the Convent of the Capuchins, re-interred in 1817 next to her husband in the Saint Denis Basilica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_de_ ... %C3%A9mont

January 29, 1749 - Birth of Christian VII of Denmark and Norway at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_VII

January 29, 1820 - Death of George III at Windsor Castle; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III ... at_Britain

January 29, 1844 – Death of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha
Ernest was the father of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband. He was also Queen Victoria’s uncle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_I,_ ... _and_Gotha

January 29, 1860 – Death of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, in Nice, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9ph ... eauharnais

January 29, 1906 - Death of Christian IX of Denmark at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen; buried at Roskilde Cathedral
King Christian was the father of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia. He was as much the "grandfather of Europe" as Queen Victoria was the grandmother. His grandchildren sat upon the thrones of Denmark, the United Kingdom, Russia, Greece and Norway. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, King Harald of Norway, King Albert II of Belgium, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Queen Sofia of Spain and former King Constantine of Greece are among his many descendants.
http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/royal ... ianIX.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX

January 29, 2000 - Wedding of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and Angela Brown, civilly in Vaduz, Liechtenstein on January 21, 2000 and religiously in New York City at St. Vincent Ferrer Church on January 29, 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Max ... chtenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_A ... chtenstein

[Susan]

January 30 in royal history:

January 30, 1649 - Charles I is beheaded at the Palace of Whitehall; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England

January 30, 1676 - Death of Tsar Alexis I at Moscow; buried at the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_I

January 30, 1730 - Death of Tsar Peter II of Russia at Moscow; buried in the Kremlin, Moscow
Peter II, the grandson of Peter the Great, died of smallpox at age 14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_of_Russia


January 30, 1889 – Apparent suicides of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Marie Vetsera at Mayerling, Austria; Rudolf was buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna; Marie was secretly buried in a cemetery in Heiligenkreuz near Mayerling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prin ... of_Austria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Vetsera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerling

January 30, 1894 - Birth of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria
Full name: Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III

January 30, 1962 - Birth of Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman, Jordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II

January 30, 1968 - Birth of Felipe of Spain, The Prince of Asturias, in Madrid, Spain
Full name: Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_de_ ... f_Asturias

January 30, 2005 – Birth of Prince Hashem of Jordan, son of Abdullah II, in Amman, Jordan
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20 ... ueenrania/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Has ... bdullah_II

[Susan]

January 31 in royal history:

January 31, 1512 – Birth of Henrique of Portugal in Lisbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry,_King_of_Portugal

January 31, 1580 – Death of Henrique of Portugal at Almeirim, Portugal; buried at Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry,_King_of_Portugal

January 31, 1606 - Execution of Guy Fawkes, convicted in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

January 31, 1756 – Birth of Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, wife of Charles X of France, at the Royal Palace, Turin, Savoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... e_of_Savoy

January 31, 1788 - Death of Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Young Pretender at Palazzo Muti, Rome; buried at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart

January 31, 1899 – Death of Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma, first wife of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in Sofia, Bulgaria; buried at the Cathedral of St. Louis of France in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... rbon-Parma

January 31, 1938 - Birth of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands
Full name: Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands

[Susan]

February 1 in royal history:

February 1, 1168 - Wedding of Matilda, daughter of Henry II, and Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony at Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany
Matilda was the eldest daughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Matilda and Henry had four sons and two daughters. Through their youngest son Wilhelm, born in Winchester in 1184 during a visit to England, they became ancestors in the direct male line of the House of Hanover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda,_Duchess_of_Saxony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Lion

February 1, 1327 - Coronation of Edward III
Edward’s wife Philippa of Hainault was crowned on February 20, 1328.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation ... sh_monarch
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-hi ... oronations

February 1, 1328 – Death of Charles IV of France at Vincennes, France; buried at Saint Denis Basilica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV_of_France

February 1, 1587 - Elizabeth I signs Mary, Queen of Scots’ death warrant
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandsh ... /index.asp
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/con ... ionwarrant

February 1, 1707 – Birth of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, son of George II and father of George III, at Hanover, Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick% ... e_of_Wales

February 1, 1908 – Assassination of Carlos I of Portugal at the Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_I_of_Portugal

February 1, 1965 - Birth of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Full name: Stephanie Marie Elisabeth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_S ... _of_Monaco

[Susan]

January 2 in royal history:

February 2, 1237 – Death of Joan, Lady of Wales, wife of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales and Gwynedd, at Garth Celyn, Aber Garth Celyn in Wales; her coffin can be seen in Beaumaris parish church, Anglesey, Wales
Joan was an illegitimate daughter of King John.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%2C_Lady_of_Wales

February 2, 1250 - Death of Eric XI Ericsson of Sweden; buried at Varnhem Abbey in Västergötland, Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XI

February 2, 1455 - Birth of King Hans of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden at Aalborg Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Hans

February 2, 1461 - Edward, Earl of March (the future Edward IV) routs the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mortimer's_Cross

February 2, 1461 - Execution of Owen Tudor following the Battle of Mortimer's Cross at Hereford
Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, were the grandparents of Henry VII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Tudor

February 2, 1503 – Birth of Katherine Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, at the Tower of London
Katherine’s mother, Elizabeth of York, died of complications of childbirth nine days later. Little Katherine did not survive her mother long and died on February 18.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Tudor_%281503%29

February 2, 1626 - Coronation of Charles I
Charles’ wife Henrietta Maria of France was never crowned because she was Roman Catholic.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-hi ... oronations
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-hi ... /charles-i
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation ... sh_monarch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England

February 2, 1650 - Birth of Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of Charles II, in London
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/En ... y/Nell.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Gwynne

February 2, 1687 – Death of Anne Sophia, daughter of Queen Anne
Anne Sophia was one of the five of Queen Anne’s 18 children who were born alive and one of the three who lived longer than a day. At the age of nine months she died of smallpox. Her sister Mary, aged 21 months, died of smallpox six days later. Both children were buried at Westminster Abbey.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bi ... royal00696

February 2, 1990 - Wedding of Marina Ogilvy, daughter of Princess Alexandra of Kent, and Paul Mowatt at St. Andrew's Church, Ham, Surrey
The couple divorced in 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ogilvy#Marriage

February 2, 2002 - Wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and Maxima Zorreguieta; civil ceremony at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, religious ceremony at Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Wil ... etherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1xima_Zorreguieta

[Susan]

February 3, 1014 - Death of Sweyn I Forkbeard of Denmark, Norway, and England, in Gainsborough, England; buried at Roskilde Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_I_of_Denmark

February 3, 1027 – Death of Richard III, Duke of Normandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_Normandy

February 3, 1276 - Wedding of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III, and Blanche of Artois at Paris, France
Edmund was the second son and fourth child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He spent his early years traveling back and forth to France with his mother gathering mercenaries and money for his father's battles with the barons. Edmund was a staunch supporter of his brother Edward I and was the commander in Wales when the last native Prince of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. It was Edmund who captured and executed Llywelyn. Blanche was Edmund's second wife. She was the only daughter of Robert I, Count of Artois and was the widow of King Henri I of Navarre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Crouchback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_of_Artois

February 3, 1338 – Birth of Joanna of Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_of_Bourbon

February 3, 1399 - Death of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, at Leicester Castle; buried at Old St. Paul's Cathedral (tomb destroyed in the Great Fire of London)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Gaunt

February 3, 1547 – Wedding of Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Anastasia Romanova at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow
Anastasia Romanova, the first of seven wives of Ivan the Terrible, was the great aunt of Mikhail, the first Romanov Tsar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IV_of_Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_ ... na-Yurieva

February 3, 1867 - Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji_of_Japan

February 3, 1968 – Wedding of Princess Benedikte of Denmark and Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg at Fredensborg Palace Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_B ... of_Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Ric ... -Berleburg
http://www.sayn.de/en/

February 3, 1998 - Stamps commemorating Diana, Princess of Wales go on sale in Britain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/52696.stm

[Susan]

February 4 in royal history:

February 4, 1495 - Wedding of Anne of York, daughter of Edward IV, and Thomas Howard, (the future) 3rd Duke of Norfolk at Greenwich Palace, London
Anne married Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and the son and heir of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk, but she died young and they had no surviving children. The Duke later married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham and was the uncle of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Yo ... _of_Surrey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_How ... of_Norfolk

February 4, 1694 – Death of Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina, second wife of Tsar Alexei of Russia, mother of Peter the Great; buried at the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Ki ... Naryshkina

February 4, 1930 – Wedding of Prince Takamatsu of Japan and Tokugawa Kikuko
Prince Takamatsu was an uncle of Emperor Akihito, the present emperor. The prince died in 1987 and his widow Princess Takamatsu died in 2004. Princess Takamatsu issued a statement shortly after the birth of Princess Aiko stating that females should be able to succeed to the throne. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 570714.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Takamatsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Takamatsu

February 4, 1970 - Birth of Marilène van den Broek, wife of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, in Dieren, Rheden in the Netherlands
Full name: Marie-Helène Angela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... ollenhoven