This Day in History

[Ludmilla]

07/27/1794 -- Coup of Thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris (he is executed July 28th).

[Susan]

Today in royal history:

July 28, 1540 - Execution of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's advisor

July 28, 1540 - Wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine Howard, his fifth wife, at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England

July 28, 1683 - Wedding of (the future) Queen Anne of England and George of Denmark, son of Frederick III of Denmark, at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace

July 28, 1844 - Death of Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies, Comte de Survilliers at Florence, Italy; buried at Les Invalides, Paris

July 28, 1869 – Wedding of Frederik VIII of Denmark and Lovisa of Sweden

[diamondlil]

On the news here today (Wednesday) they are talking about it being the 50th anniversary of the first commercial passenger flight over the Pacific. The vision was interesting looking at the food, and the fact that there were lots of smokers etc.

[Susan]

Today in royal history:

July 29, 796 - Death of King Offa of Mercia

July 29, 1030 - Death of Olav II of Norway in battle at Stiklestad, Norway; thought to be buried under Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim

July 29, 1565 - Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry, Lord Darnley, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mary and Darnley were both grandchildren of Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII.

July 29, 1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines by the English navy

July 29, 1900 - Assassination of Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Gaetano Bresci at Monza, Italy; buried in the Pantheon, Rome

July 29, 1981 - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

[Helen_Davis]

[quote=""Susan""]Today in royal history:

July 26, 1533 - Murder of Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro

July 26, 1867 – Death of former King Otto of Greece, born Prince Otto of Bavaria, at palace of the former bishops in Bamberg, Germany; buried at Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan in Munich

July 26, 1944 - Death of Reza Shah Pahlevi, former Shah of Iran and father of the last Shah, in exile in Johannesburg, South Africa; buried at Reza Shah's mausoleum in Ray, Tehran, Iran which was later destroyed during the 1979 Iranian Revolution

July 26, 1958 - Debutantes presented at the British royal court for the last time[/quote]

July 26th, 1952- Death of Evita Peron in Argentina

[Sheramy]

29 July 1890: Vincent van Gogh dies in an attic room of the Auberge Ravoux at Auvers-sur-Oise (a village not far from Paris), the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound almost two days earlier. His brother, Theo van Gogh, was at his bedside.

Rest in peace, cher Vincent.

[Susan]

Today in royal history:

July 30, 1126 – Death of Abbess Cecilia, daughter of William I, at the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen, Normandy; buried at the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen
Born about 1055, Cecilia was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. She entered the Benedictine Convent of the Holy Trinity at Caen in Normandy in 1074. On the death of Abbess Matilda in 1112, Cecilia was elected Abbess and held that office until her death. She was buried in the nuns' choir at the convent.

July 30, 1683 – Death of Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France, at Château de Versailles; buried at Saint Denis Basilica

July 30, 1700 – Death of William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne, at Windsor Castle, buried at Westminster Abbey
The 11 year old duke’s death (from smallpox) was the major reason for the passage of the Act of Settlement in 1701 which gave the throne to Sophie, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants.

July 30, 1900 - Death of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, son of Queen Victoria, at Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Germany; buried in the ducal family's mausoleum in Coburg Cemetery

July 30, 1912 - Death of Emperor Meiji of Japan; buried in the Fushimi Momoyama Ryo (Graveyard) in Kyoto, his soul enshrined in Meiji Shrine in Tokyo

July 30, 1967 - Wedding of Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein and Countess Marie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau

July 30, 1988 - Wedding of James Ogilvy, son of Princess Alexandra of Kent, and Julia Rawlinson at St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Waldon, Essex

[Susan]

Today in royal history:

July 31, 1750 – Death of João V of Portugal in Lisbon; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

July 31, 1790 – Wedding of Frederik VI of Denmark and Marie of Hesse-Cassel

July 31, 1812 – Birth of Amélie of Leuchtenberg, second wife of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (King Pedro IV of Portugal)

July 31, 1942 – Death of Maria Ana of Portugal, wife of Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg, in exile during World War II in New York City; buried at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg

July 31, 1966 - Birth of Marina Ogilvy, daughter of Princess Alexandra of Kent

[annis]

1 August, 1798, The Battle of the Nile, also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, - Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wins one of the decisive naval victories of the French Revolutionary Wars for England.

http://nelson.y2u.co.uk/NL-Battle-of-the-Nile.htm

[Susan]

Today in royal history:

August 1, 10 B.C. - Birth of Roman Emperor Claudius

August 1, 1402 - Death of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, son of Edward III, at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, buried at the Church of the Medicant Friars, Kings Langley

August 1, 1714 - Death of Queen Anne at Kensington Palace, buried at Westminster Abbey; George, Elector of Hanover succeeds her as George I

August 1, 1893 – Birth of King Alexander of Greece

August 1, 2005 – Death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh; buried at the Al-Oud cemetery, Riyadh