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January
01 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India in Delhi (1887)
Charles II crowned King of Scotland (1651)
Birth of Prince Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall, son of King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon (1511)
03 - Died: Queen Catherine of Valois, wife of King Henry VI of England (1437)
04 - Died: Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra, Princess Royal, daughter of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1931)
Most of the Palace of Whitehall (main residence of English monarchs at the time) is destroyed by fire (1698)
Married: King Henry III of England & Eleanor of Provence (1236)
05 - Died: Frederick Hanover, Duke of York, son of King George III & Queen Charlotte (1827)
Died: Princess Philippa, daughter of King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1430)
Born: Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall, son of King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1209)
Died: King Edward, the Confessor , son of Ethelred II the Unready, King of Kent & Emma of Normandy(1066), succeeded by King Harold II
06 - Married: Anne of Cleves and King Henry VIII (1540)
Born: King Richard II, son of Prince Edward, Prince of Wales & Joan, Countess of Kent (1367)
King Harold II crowned at Westminster (1066)
07 - Born:  Princess Charlotte Augusta Hanover, daughter of  King George IV &  Queen Caroline (1796)
Died: Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of  King Henry VIII (1536)
Born:  Prince Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1355)
Married:  Princess Eleanor & Simon de Montfort, Earl Leicester (1239)
Married:  Princess Matilda & Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1114)
08 - Born:  Duke Albert Victor Christian, son of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1864)
Died: King Edgar I of Scotland (1107)
09 - Married: Earl & Countess of St. Andrews (1988)
10 - Married: Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha & Ferdinand I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1893)
Died:  Princess Elizabeth Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1840)
12 - Died:  Princess Anne Hanover, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1759)
13 - Died: Sophie of Prussia, Queen of Greece, daughter of Frederick III German Emperor &  Princess Victoria, Princess Royal (1932)
Born:  Princess Henrietta, daughter of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1669)
Died: King Aethelwulf (858)
14 - Died:  Duke Albert Victor Christian, son of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1892)
Died:  Princess Mary Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1772)
15 - Born: Marie-Christine Agnes Hedwig Ida,  Princess Michael of Kent (1945)
Born:  Princess Margaret of Sweden, daughter of  Prince Arthur William Patrick & Duchess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1882)
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey (1559)
King Henry VIII assumes the title 'Supreme Head of the Church' (1535)
Married:  Prince Richard, Duke of York & Lady Anne Mowbray (1478)
16 - Died:  Prince Arthur William Patrick, son of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1942)
Born:  Earl Edmund Crouchback of Leicester, son of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1245)
18 - Died:  Prince John Charles Francis, son of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1919)
Married:  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1486)
Married:  Princess Elizabeth & John I, Count of Holland (1297)
20 - Born: Sophie Helen,  The Countess of Wessex (1965)
Died: King George V (1936), succeeded by his son King Edward VIII
Married:  King Richard II of England & Anne of Bohemia (1382)
22 - Died:  Queen Victoria, succeeded by her son King Edward VII (1901)
Married:  Princess Beatrice & John of Dreux, Earl of Ricond (1260)
23 - Married:  Prince Alfred Ernest Albert & Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1874)
Died: Edward Augustus Hanover, Duke of Kent, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1820)
Married:  King Edward the Confessor of England & Edith "Eadgyth" (1045)
24 - Married:  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1328)
25 - Married:  Victoria, Princess Royal to German Emperor Frederick III (1858)
Married:  King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn (1533)
Married:  King Edward III & Isabella of France (1308)
26 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France (1340)
King Edwy crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames (956)
27 - Born: William II, German Emperor, son of Frederick II, German Emperor &  Princess Victoria, Princess Royal (1859)
Born: Augustus Frederick Hanover, Duke of Sussex, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1773)
28 - Died:  King Henry VIII, his son Edward VI becomes King (1547)
Born:  King Henry VII of England, son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Ricond & Countess Margaret of Ricond Beaufort (1457)
29 - Died:  King George III, his son George IV becomes King (1820)
King Edward III crowned at Westminster (1327)
30 - Died:  King Charles I, beheaded in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, succeeded by his son King Charles II after a period known as the Commonwealth, ruled by Cromwell (1649)
31 - Born:  Prince Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1701)
February
01 - Married:  Princess Matilda (Maud) & Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony (1168)
02 - Married: Paul & Marina Mowatt (1990 - separated 11 April 1996 - divorced 1997)
King Charles I crowned at Westminster (1626)
Born:  Princess Katherine Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1503)
War of the Roses: Battle of Mortimer's Cross: Yorkist victory (1461)
03 - Died:  Prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1399)
Married:  Earl Edmund Crouchback of Leicester & Blanche of Artois (1276)
04 - Married:  Princess Anne & Thomas 3rd Howard, Duke of Norfolk (1495)
05 - Born: Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (1999), son of Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones and Daniel Chatto
06 - Died:  King George VI, his daughter Elizabeth II becomes Queen (1952)
Died:  King Charles II, succeeded by King James II (1685)
Born:  Queen Anne (1665), daughter of  King James II & Anne Hyde
07 - Born: Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (1102, died 1169)
08 - Died:  Queen Mary of Scots, beheaded (1587)
09 - Died:  Princess Margaret (2002)
Born:  Princess Catherine, daughter of  King James II &  Anne Hyde(1671)
10 - Married:  Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1840)
Died:  Prince Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, son of  King William I the Conqueror & Matilda of Flanders (1134)
11 - Died:  Princess Elizabeth of York, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1503)
Born:  Princess Elizabeth of York, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1466)
12 - Died: Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England (1554)
13 - King William of Orange and  Queen Mary become joint sovereigns of Great Britain (1689)
Died: Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of  King James I of England & Anne of Denmark (1662)
Died: Catherine Howard, fifth wife of  King Henry VIII (1542)
Married: Princess Joan Plantagenet & William II the Good, King of Sicily (1177)
14 - Married: Elizabeth Stuart & Frederick V of Palatinate, King of Bohemia (1613)
Died: King Richard II, murdered at Pontrefact Castle, Yorkshire, forced to abdicate in 1399 and succeeded by his cousin Henry IV (1400)
Died: Marguerite of France, Queen of King Edward I (1317, born 1282)
16 - Born: Prince William of Hatfield, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1337)
17 - Died: Prince George William Hanover, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1718)
18 - Born: Mary Tudor, Queen of England, daughter of  King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (1516)
Died: George, Duke of Clarence (1478), executed for treason against his older brother King Edward IV of England
19 - Born: Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, The Duke of York (1960), son of  Queen Elizabeth II and  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Born: Prince Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, son of  King James I &  Queen Anne (1594)
King Edward VI crowned at Westminster (1547)
20 - Born: Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra, Princess Royal, daughter of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1867)
Died: King James I of Scotland, assassinated (1437)
21 - Born: Prince Edmund Tudor, son of  Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1499)
22 - Born: Katharine Lucy Mary,  The Duchess of Kent (1933)
Died: Prince Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall, son of  King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon (1511)
War of the Roses: 2nd battle of St Albans: Lancastrian victory (1461)
Died: King David II of Scotland (1371, born 1324)
23 - Died: Marquess Alexander of Carisbrooke, son of  Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg &  Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria (1960)
Born: Prince Octavius Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1779)
Died: Prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, son of  King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1447)
24 - Born: Prince Adolphus, son of King George III and Queen Charlotte (1774, died 1850)
Died: King Ethelbert of Kent (616)
25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates  Queen Elizabeth I (1570)
Coronation of  King Edward II at Westminster (1308)
Died: Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd (1246)
26 - Died: Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, daughter of Alexander Duff, Duke of Fife &  Princess Louise, Princess Royal (1959)
Died: Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1275)
28 - Married:  Princess Mary, Princess Royal & Viscount Henry George Charles Lascelles (1922)
Born: King Henry, the Young King, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1155)
29 - Born: James Robert Bruce Ogilvy(1964), son of  Princess Alexandra and the Hon. Angus Ogilvy
March
01 - Born: Lady Rose Victoria Birgitte Louise Windsor (1980), daughter of Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Birgitte van Deurs
Born: Rear Admiral Timothy James Hamilton Laurence (1955), husband of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal
Born: Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of King George II (1683, died 1737)
Married:  Prince Edmund of Langley, Duke of York & Isabella of Castile (1372)
Died: Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, son of Llywelyn the Great (1244, born 1200)
02 - Born: King Robert II of Scotland (1316, died 1390)
03 - Born: Eloise Taylor, daughter of Timothy Taylor & Lady Helen Windsor (2003)
Married:  Princess Margaret Tudor & Henry Stewart, Lord Methven I (1528)
Married:  Princess Mary Tudor & Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (1515)
04 - Died: Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I of England (1619, born 1574)
Died:  Princess Joan, daughter of  King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1238)
05 - Born:  Princess Mary Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1723)
King Henry VI deposed, Edward IV becomes King (1461)
Born: King David II of Scotland (1324, died 1371)
Born:  King Henry II, son of Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou & Matilda  (1133)
07 - Born: The Rt. Hon. Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon (1930), ex-husband of  The Princess Margaret
08 - Died:  King William III, Mary's sister Anne becomes Queen  (1702)
Died:  Princess Adela Alice of Blois, daughter of  King William I the Conqueror & Matilda of Flanders (1138)
10 - Born:  The Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, The Earl of Wessex (1964), son of  Queen Elizabeth II and  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Married: Prince Edward (the later King Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1863)
11 - Born:  Princess Mary, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1278)
12 - Born: Xan Richard Anders Windsor, Lord Culloden, son of Alexander, Earl of Ulster and Claire Booth (2007)
Born: Anne Hyde, first wife of James II of England before he became king (1637, died 1671)
War of the Roses: Battle of Losecote Field: Yorkist victory (1470)
Born:  Princess Alice, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1279)
13 - Married:  Prince Arthur William Patrick & Duchess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1879)
Married:  Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall & Lady Isabella Marshal (1231)
17 - Born: King James IV of Scotland (1473, died 1513)
Died: King Lulach I of Scotland (1058)
Died: King Harold I Harefoot, son of King Canute II the Great & Elfgiva of Northampton, succeeded by King Harthacnut (1040)
18 - Born:  Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1848)
Born:  Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1496)
Died:  King Edward, the Martyr (978)
19 - Died: King Alexander III of Scotland (1286, born 1241)
20 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Princess Anne and her husband Captain mark Phillips in The Mall (1974)
Born: Princess Cicely, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1469)
Died: King Henry IV, succeeded by his son Henry V (1413)
21 - Married:  Princess Louise Caroline Alberta & John Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1871)
22 - Died: Prince Thomas, Duke of Clarence, son of  King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1421)
23 - Born: Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (1990), daughter of  Prince Andrew, The Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
Born: Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI (1429, died 1482)
24 - Died: Queen Mary, wife of King George V (1953)
Died: Queen Elizabeth I, James I becomes King, uniting the Crowns of England and Scotland (1603)
Died: Princess Beatrice, daughter of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1275)
25 - Coronation of  King Robert I 'the Bruce' as King of Scots (1306)
Died: King Kenneth III of Scotland (1005)
26 - Born: Princess Sophia Dorothea Hanover, daughter of  King George I &  Queen Sophia (1687)
27 - Died: King James I, succeeded by his son King Charles I (1625)
28 - Died: Princess Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1965)
Died: Prince Leopold George Duncan, son of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1884)
War of the Roses: Battle of Ferrybridge: indecisive (1461)
29 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1 (1867)
War of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England (1461)
30 - Died: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (2002, born 1900), Queen consort of King George VI
31 - Born: Prince Henry William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, son of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1900)
Died: Prince Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1751)
April
01 - Died:  King Robert III of Scotland (1406)
Died:  Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France (1204)
02 - Born: Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Queen Anne (1653, died 1708)
Died:  Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, son of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1502)
03 - King Edward the Confessor crowned at Winchester (1043)
04 - Born:  King Henry IV, son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster & Blanche of Lancaster (1366)
06 - Born: Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor (1979), son of  Prince Michael & Princess Michael, Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
Born:  Prince John Alexander, son of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1871)
Died:  King Richard I, the Lion Heart, killed by a crossbow bolt while besieging Ch�lus-Chabrol, succeeded by his brother John I (1199)
07 - Died:  Prince John Alexander, son of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1871)
Born:  Prince Leopold George Duncan, son of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1853)
Married:  Princess Elizabeth Hanover & Landgrave Frederick VI of Hesse-Homburg (1818)
08 - Married:  King George IV & Caroline Amelia of Brunswick (1795)
09 - Married: Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles (2005)
Died:  King Edward IV, succeeded by his son Kind Edward V (1483)
King Henry V crowned at Westminster (1413)
Married:  Earl Edmund Crouchback of Leicester & Aveline de Forz (1269)
10 - Born:  King James V of Scotland (1512)
Born:  Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville (1472)
11 - Coronation of  King William III and  Queen Mary II at Westminster (1689)
Died: Lleywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynnedd (1240)
13 - Died:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1275)
14 - Born:  Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1857)
War of the Roses: Battle of Barnet: Edward IV defeats the Lancastrians and resumes the throne (1471)
17 - Married:  Prince John, Duke of Bedford & Anne of Burgundy (1423)
19 - Died: King Robert II of Scotland (1390, born 1316)
21 - Born:  Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (1926), daughter of  King George VI & Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Died: Augustus Frederick Hanover, Duke of Sussex, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1843)
Died:  Henry VII, his son Henry VIII becomes King of England (1509)
22 - Married:  King Henry VI of England & Margaret of Anjou (1445)
Married:  Prince John, Duke of Bedford & Jacquetta of Luxembourgh (1433)
Died:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1355)
23 - Born: Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor (1981), daughter of  Prince Michael and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
Queen Anne crowned at Westminster (1702)
King James II crowned at Westminster (1685)
Coronation of  King Charles II at Scone (1 January) and Westminster (1661)
King Edward III of England founds the Order of the Garter (1348)
Died:  Princess Joan of Acre, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1307)
Married:  Princess Eleanor & William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (1224)
Died: Queen Adeliza of England, second wife of King Henry I (1151, born 1103)
Died: King Alexander of Scotland (1124, born 1078)
Died: King Aethelred II The Unready, succeeded by King Edmund II Ironside (1016)
Died: Brian Boru, High King of Ireland (1014)
Died: King Ethelred of Wessex (871)
Died: King Wihtred of Kent (725)
24 - Died: Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (1986, born 1896)
Married:  Princess Alexandra & The Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy (1963)
Married:  Queen Mary of Scots and Francis II, King of France (1558)
25 - Born:  Princess Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1897)
Born:  Princess Alice Maud Mary, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1843)
Born:  Princess Mary Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1776)
War of the Roses: Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist victory (1464)
Born:  King Edward II of England, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1284)
King Edmund II Ironside crowned at St Paul's (1016)
26 - Married:  King George VI &  Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1923 - widowed 1952)
Born:  Duke William Augustus of Cumberland Hanover, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1721)
27 - Married:  Prince Leopold George Duncan & Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck (1882)
David I becomes King of Scotland (1124)
28 - Born: Lady Helen Marina Lucy Taylor (1964), daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine Worsley
Born:  King Edward IV, son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York & Lady Cicely Nevill (1442)
30 - Died:  Princess Mary Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1857)
Born:  Mary II, Queen of England, daughter of  King James II &  Anne, Hyde, Duchess of York (1662)
Married:  Princess Joan of Acre & Gilbert de Clare, Earl Gloucester (1290)
May
01 - Born: Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto (1964), daughter of  Princess Margaret and Antony, Earl of Snowdon
Died:  Princess Margaret of Sweden, daughter of  Prince Arthur William Patrick & Duchess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1920)
Born:  Prince Arthur William Patrick, son of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1850)
Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland (1707)
Married:  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1464)
03 - Died:  Prince Octavius Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1783)
Born: Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III of England (1415, died 1495)
Died:  Princess Katherine, daughter of  King Henry III of England & Eleanor of Provence  (1257)
Died: Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (1152)
04 - Died:  Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, son of  King Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou (1471)
War of the Roses: Battle of Tewkesbury: Yorkist victory (1471)
05 - Died: Duke Charles of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1661)
Died:  Princess Elizabeth, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1316)
06 - Married:  The Princess Margaret & Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Earl of Snowdon (1960 - divorced 11 July 1978)
Died:  King Edward VII, his son George V becomes King  (1910)
08 - Married:  Prince Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales & Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1736)
11 - King Edgar crowned at Bath (973)
12 - King George VI crowned at Westminster (1937)
Born: Frederick Harold, son of  Prince (Frederick) Christian Charles &  Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1876)
13 - Birthday & Died:  Prince Charles James Stuart, Duke of Cornwall, son of  King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France (1629)
Married:  Prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster & Blanche of Lancaster (1359)
14 - Born: Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne Armstrong-Jones, daughter of David, Viscount Linley & Serena Stanhope (2002)
15 - Born: Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips (1981), daughter of  Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips
Married:  Queen Mary of Scots & Bothwell (1567)
War of the Roses: Battle of Hexham: Yorkist victory (1464)
16 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England (1568)
Married:  King Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine (1152)
17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland (1590)
18 - Married:  Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal &  King Frederick I of Wurttemberg (1797)
19 - Mary Queen of Scots is arrested by Queen Elizabeth I of England (1568)
Died: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII (1536)
Married:  Princess Margaret & John 2nd Hastings, Earl of Pembroke (1359)
20 - Died: Frederick Harold, son of  Prince (Frederick) Christian Charles &  Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1876)
21 - Married:  King Charles II & Catherine de Braganza (1662)
Died:  King Henry VI, twice deposed, murdered, succeeded by his son King Edward IV (1471)
Died:  Princess Blanche, daughter of  King Henry IV of England & Mary de Bohun (1409)
22 - Born:  Princess Elizabeth Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1770)
Died:  Duke James of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1667)
War of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England at the first battle of St Albans (1455)
Married:  Princess Matilda & Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1127)
23 - Died:  Princess Mary, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1482)
24 - Born:  Queen Victoria (1819)
David I dies, Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland (1153)
25 - Born:  Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1846)
26 - Born: Zenouska May Mowatt (1990), daughter of Marina Ogilvy and Paul Mowatt
Born: Queen Mary (1867 - 1953), wife of  King George V
Died: King Edmund I, murdered at Pucklechurch near Bath (946), succeeded by King Edred
27 - Died:  Princess Sophia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1848)
King John I crowned at Westminster (1199)
28 - Died: The Duke of Windsor, son of  King George V & Queen Mary (1972)
Born: Sylvana Palma, Countess of St. Andrews, wife of George, Earl of St Andrews (1957)
Born: King George I, son of Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick & Sophia Hanover (1660)
Married: Prince Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence & Violante of Milan Visconti (1368)
29 - Coronation of  King Charles II (1660)
Born:  King Charles II (1630), son of  King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France
30 - Married:  King Henry VIII & Jane Seymour (1536)
31 - Died: Cecily Neville, mother of King Edward IV and King Richard III of England (1495, born 1415)
Born: Margaret Beaufort, mother of  King Henry VII (1443)
Died: Isabella of Angouleme, Queen of King John of England (1246)
June
01 - Coronation of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII (1533)
02 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey (1953)
Married:  King Henry V of England & Catherine of Valois (1420)
03 - Married: Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson (1937)
Born:  King George V, son of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1865)
04 - Born: Christian Alexander Mowatt (1993), son of Marina Ogilvy and Paul Mowatt
Born:  King George III (1738), son of  Prince Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales & Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
05 - Born:  King Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1771)
Born:  Prince Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1341)
Died:  Earl Edmund Crouchback of Leicester, son of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1296)
06 - Born: Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix", daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse &  Princess Alice Maud Mary (1872)
07 - Died: Anne of Bohemia, wife of King Richard II of England (1394, born 1367)
Died:  King Robert I 'the Bruce' of Scotland (1329)
08 - Married: TRH The Duke & Duchess of Kent (1961)
Died: Edward, England's Black Prince, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1376)
Died: King Harthacnut of England and Denmark, Edward the Confessor becomes King (1042, born 1018)
King Edward The Elder crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames (900)
09 - Died:  Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1923)
10 - Died: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1974, born 1900)
Born:  The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), son of Princess Alice and Prince Andrew of Greece
11 - Died:  King George I, succeeded by his son King George II (1727)
Married:  King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon (1509)
Born: Anne Neville, wife of King Richard III of England (1456, died 1485)
Died: King Henry, the Young King, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1183)
13 - Married:  King Charles I of England & Henrietta Maria of France (1625)
14 - Born: Sophie of Prussia, Queen of Greece, daughter of Frederick III German Emperor &  Princess Victoria, Princess Royal (1870)
English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers (1645)
King Richard II of England meets the leaders of the Peasant's Revolt (1381)
15 - Day on which closest Saturday Queen Elizabeth II officially celebrates her birthday
Married: Princess Margaret of Connaught and Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden (1905)
Born: Edward, England's Black Prince, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1330)
King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta (1215)
16 - Born: Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orl�ans (1644, died 1670)
War of the Roses: Battle of Stoke Field: Lancastrian victory (1487)
Born:  Princess Isabella, daughter of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1332)
Married:  Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall & Beatrix of Falkenburg (1269)
17 - Born:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) & Eleanor of Castile (1264)
Born:  King Edward I (Longshanks), son of  King Henry III of England & Eleanor of Provence (1239)
Married: Matilda (daughter of  King Henry I) & Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou (1128)
18 - The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and illegitimate son of King Charles II, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset (1685)
Coronation of  King Charles I as King of Scotland (1633)
Born:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1318)
19 - Married: TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex (Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones) (1999)
Born: Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (1896, died 1986)
Born:  King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566), son of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley & Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Died:  Prince Edmund Tudor, son of  Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1500)
20 - Born: Birgitte Eva,  The Duchess of Gloucester (1946), wife of Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Died: King William IV, his niece Victoria becomes Queen  (1837)
Died:  Prince Charles, Duke of Kendal, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1667)
Born:  Prince John, Duke of Bedford, son of  King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1389, died 1435)
21 - Born: Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales (1982), son of  Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign (1887)
Born: Princess Caroline Elizabeth Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1713)
Died: King Edward III, his grandson Richard II becomes King (1377)
22 - King George V crowned at Westminster (1911)
23 - Born: King Edward VIII, later  Duke of Windsor, son of  King George V & Queen Mary (1894)
Born: Margaret of Denmark, wife of King James III of Scotland (1456, died 1486)
24 - Born: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532, died 1588)
King Henry VIII crowned at Westminster (1509)
Born: Prince William of Windsor, son of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1348)
Battle of Sluys: King Edward III of England personally leads the navy in it's almost complete destruction of the fleet of France (1340)
Born: Prince John, John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault (1340, died 1399)
Battle of Bannockburn: The Scots, led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England and regain their independence (1314)
25 - Prince Albert is created Prince Consort by Queen Victoria (1857)
Died: Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1533)
King Edward V deposed (1483)
Born: Princess Beatrice, daughter of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1242)
26 - Born:George Philip Nicholas Windsor, Earl of St. Andrews (1962), son of Edward, Duke of Kent and Katherine Worsley, Duchess of Kent
Died: King George IV, succeeded by his brother, the Duke of Clarence, who became King William IV (1830)
Richard III becomes King (1483)
Died: Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III (1291)
28 - Coronation of  Queen Victoria at Westminster (1838)
Died:  Princess Sophia Dorothea Hanover, daughter of  King George I &  Queen Sophia (1757)
Married:  Princess Mary Hanover & Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel (1740)
Born:  King Henry VIII (1491, died 1547)
King Edward IV crowned at Westminster (1461)
Died:  Princess Matilda (Maud), daughter of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1189)
29 - Battle of Cropredy Bridge: King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment, the last battle by an English King on English soil (1644)
Died: Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII of England (1509, born 1443)
30 - Married:  Prince Michael of Kent & Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, Princess Michael (1978)
July
01 - Born: The Honorable Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong Jones, son of David, Viscount Linley & Serena Stanhope (1999)
Formal investiture of Prince Charles as The Prince of Wales in Caernarvon Castle (1969)
Born: Diana Frances, Princess of Wales (1961), ex-wife of  Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales
Married:  Princess Alice Maud Mary & Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse (1862)
02 - Born:  Princess Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York(1492)
Married:  King Canute II the Great & Emma of Normandy (1017)
04 - Born:  Prince Michael George Charles Franklin of Kent (1942), son of George, Duke of Kent & Princess Marina of Greece
Born:  Prince Charles, Duke of Kendal, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1666)
Born:  Princess Philippa, daughter of  King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1394)
05 - Married:  Princess Helena Augusta Victoria & Prince (Frederick) Christian Charles (1866)
Born:  Princess Joan of the Tower, daughter of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1321)
06 - Married:  King George V & Queen Mary (May) of Teck (1893)
Born:  Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga, daughter of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1868)
Following the death of King Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen (1553)
King Richard III crowned at Westminster (1483)
Married:  Princess Blanche & Ludwig III, Elector Palatine (1402)
Died: King Alexander II of Scotland (1249, born 1198)
Died:  King Henry II Curtmantle, succeeded by his son Richard I the Lionheart (1189)
07 - Died: Madeleine de Valois, Queen of King James V of Scotland (1537, born 1520)
Died:  King Edward I - Longshanks (1307), succeeded by his son King Edward II
08 - Married: TRH The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (1972)
Died: Prince Adolphus. son of King George III (1850, born 1774)
King Charles II grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island (1663)
Died:  Prince William of Hatfield, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1337)
Died:  Princess Mary, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile  (1332)
Married:  Princess Margaret & John II, Duke of Brabant (1290)
Died: King Edgar (975), succeeded by King Edward, The Martyr
09 - Michael Fagin breaks into Buckingham Palace and makes it into the Queen's bedroom (1982)
Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia (1900)
Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his 4th wife Anne of Cleves (1540)
10 - Born:  Princess Amelia Sophia Eleanor Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1711)
War of the Roses: Battle of Northampton: Yorkist victory (1460)
Born:: King James III of Scotland (1452, died 1488)
Born:  Prince John, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) & Eleanor of Castile (1266)
11 - Married: Edward Augustus Hanover, Duke of Kent & Victoria Mary Louisa (1818)
Born:  King Robert I 'the Bruce' (1274)
12 - Born:  Prince John Charles Francis, son of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1905)
Born:  Duke James of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1663)
Married:  King Henry VIII & Catherine Parr (1543)
Married:  King Richard III & Lady Anne Nevill (1472)
13 - Born:  Prince Henry, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1267)
14 - Married: Daniel & Lady Sarah Chatto (1994)
16 - Died: Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix", daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse &  Princess Alice Maud Mary (1918)
Died: Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of  King Henry VIII (1557)
King Richard II crowned at Westminster (1377)
17 - Born: HRH Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, wife of HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales (1947)
Died: Grand Duchess Elizabeth (Ella), daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse &  Princess Alice Maud Mary (1918)
Change of name of royal family from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor (1917)
Married: Princess Joan of the Tower & David II Bruce, King of Scotland (1328)
Died: King Edward The Elder (925), succeeded by King Athelstan
18 - Married: Timothy & Lady Helen Taylor (1992)
Died: Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Queen of Romania, daughter of  Prince Alfred Ernest Albert & Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1938)
19 - Coronation of King George IV at Westminster (1821)
Lady Jane Grey deposed as Queen of England, Queen Mary proclaimed Queen (1553)
20 - Born: Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1346)
21 - Lord William Russell is beheaded in England for plotting to kill the King (1683)
Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire (1403)
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward defeats Scottish rebels led by William Wallace (1298)
22 - Married: Princess Maude Charlotte Mary &  King Charles Haakon VII, King of Norway (1896)
Married: Princess Mary, daughter of King George III, & Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (1816)
Born: Princess Joan, daughter of  King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1210)
23 - Married: The Duke of York & Sarah Ferguson (1986 - divorced 30 May 1996)
Married: Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria &  Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg (1885)
24 - Born: William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne (1689, died 1700)
James VI (later James I of England) crowned King of Scotland (1567)
25 - Born: Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (1970), son of Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine Worsley
King James I crowned at Westminster (1603)
Married:  Queen Mary I of England &  Philip II, King of Spain (1554)
26 - War of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor: Lancastrian victory (1469)
27 - Married:  Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra, Princess Royal & Alexander Duff, Duke of Fife (1889)
Married:  Princess Isabella & Enguerrand VII de Courcy, Earl of Bedford (1365)
28 - Born: Samuel David Benedict Chatto (1996), son of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones and Daniel Chatto
Married:  Queen Anne &  Prince George of Denmark (1683)
Married:  King Henry VIII & Catherine Howard (1540)
29 - Married:  The Prince of Wales & Diana, Princess of Wales (1981 - divorced 28 August 1996)
Died: William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne (1700, born1689)
Married:  Queen Mary, Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1565)
Died: King Offa (796)
30 - Married: James & Julia Ogilvy (1988)
Died: Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, son of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1900)
Died: Abbess Cecilia of Holy Trinity, daughter of  King William I the Conqueror & Matilda of Flanders (1126)
31 - Married: Lady Davina Windsor & Gary Lewis (2004)
Born: Marina Victoria Alexandra Ogilvy Mowatt (1966), daughter of  Princess Alexandra & The Hon. Angus Ogilvy
August
01 - Died:  Queen Anne, succeeded by King George I, great-grandson of King James I (1714)
Died:  Prince Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1402)
02 - Died:  King James II of Scotland (1460)
Died:  King William II Rufus of England , son of King William I the Conqueror & Matilda of Flanders, killed while hunting in the New Forest, succeeded by his brother Henry I (1100)
03 - Died:  Prince John, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) & Eleanor of Castile (1271)
04 - Born:  Queen Elizabeth Angela Marguerite, The Queen Mother (1900), deceased 30 March 2002, wife of King George VI
Married:  Princess Margaret Tudor & Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus VI (1514)
05 - Died: Victoria, Princess Royal, Empress Frederick of Germany, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1901)
King Henry I crowned at Westminster (1100)
06 - Born: Columbus George Donald Taylor, son of Lady Helen Windsor & Timothy Taylor (1994)
Born: Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, son of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha(1844)
Married:  King Henry I Beauclerc of England & Matilda (Edith) of Scotland (1100)
07 - Died: Caroline, wife of King George IV (1821)
Born:  Princess Amelia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1783)
08 - Born:  Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York (1988), daughter of Prince Andrew, The Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
Born: Timothy Verner Taylor, husband of Lady Helen Windsor (1963)
Married:  Princess Margaret Tudor &  King James IV of Scotland (1503)
Scottish Coronation Stone removed from Scone Palace by King Edward I (1296)
09 - Coronation of King Edward VII at Westminster (1902)
Born: King Henry V, son of  King Henry IV of England & Mary de Bohun (1387)
10 - Born: Madeleine de Valois, wife of King James V of Scotland (1520)
Died: Count Eustace of Boulogne, son of  King Stephen of England & Matilda of Boulogne (1153)
12 - Born: King George IV (1762), son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte
13 - Born: Queen Adelaide, wife of  William IV (1756)
King Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men (1415)
Died: Princess Constance, daughter of  King William I the Conqueror & Matilda of Flanders (1090)
14 - Born: Princess Catherine, daughter of King Edward IV (1479)
Died: King Duncan I of Scotland, killed in battle against his successor and cousin Macbeth (1040)
15 - Born: Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, The Princess Royal (1950), daughter of  Queen Elizabeth II &  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
King George VI ceases to use the title Emperor of India upon India's independence (1947)
Died: Philippa of Hainault, wife of King Edward III (1369)
Born: Prince John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, son of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1316)
Died: Macbeth, King of Scotland (1057)
Born: Duncan I of Scotland (1001)
16 - Born: Frederick Hanover, Duke of York, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1763)
Died: Margaret of Scotland, dauphine of France, daughter of King James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort (1445, born 1424)
King Edred crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames (946)
17 - Trial of Queen Caroline, estranged wife of King George IV (1820)
Died: King Edward V (1483)
Born: Prince Richard, Duke of York, son of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1473)
Born: Prince William, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1152)
19 - Jacobite Rising: Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, the start of the 2nd Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45" (1745)
Born: Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of  King James I of England & Anne of Denmark (1596)
Mary Stuart returns to Scotland (1561)
Died: Prince Alfonso, Earl of Chester, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1284)
Coronation of  King Edward I  Longshanks at Westminster (1274)
Died: Prince Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1186)
20 - Died: Prince Alfred Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1783)
21 - Born: The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon (1930), deceased 9 February 2002, daughter of  King George VI & Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Born: King William IV (1765), son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte
22 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion (1775)
Married:  King George II & Caroline of Ansbach (1705)
King Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors, beginning of the English Civil War (1642)
War of the Roses: Battle of Bosworth: Lancastrian victory (1485)
King Richard III killed at Bosworth, Henry VII becomes King  (1485)
24 - Born: Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor (1995), daughter of George, Earl of St Andrews & Sylvana Tomaselli
Died: Princess Cicely, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1507)
Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid (1215)
Married: King John Lackland of England &  Isabella of Angoul�me (1200)
Born: King Alexander II of Scotland (1198)
Born: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, father of King Henry II of England (1113)
25 - Died: Prince George Edward Alexander, Duke of Kent, son of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1942)
Died: Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England (1482, born 1429)
26 - Born:  Prince Richard Alexander Walter George, The Duke of Gloucester (1944), son of Henry, Duke of Gloucester & Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Born: Prince Albert, consort to  Queen Victoria (1819)
27 - Earl Mountbatten of Burma assassinated by the IRA (1979)
Died: Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (1968)
28 - Divorce of Prince Charles and Diana finalized (1996)
Died: Prince William of Gloucester, killed in an air crash (1972)
29 - Married:  King Ernest August I, King of Hanover & Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1815)
Married:  King John Lackland of England & Countess Isabella De Clare of Gloucester (1189)
31 - Diana, Princess of Wales dies in car accident (1997)
Died:  King Henry V, his son King Henry VI becomes King of England (1422)
September
01 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by King Henry VIII (1532)
02 - Died:  Princess Joan (Joanna), daughter of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1348)
King Richard I The Lion Heart crowned at Westminster (could also be 3 September) (1189)
03 - A treaty between the US and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the American Revolutionary war (1783)
King Charles II is defeated in the last main battle of the English civil war (1651)
Born: King Alexander III of Scotland, son of King Alexander II and his second wife Marie de Coucy (1241)
04 - Born King Alexander III of Scotland (1241, died 1286)
Died:  Princess Joan Plantagenet, daughter of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1199)
King Athelstan crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames (925)
06 - Died:  King James II, succeeded by King William III and Queen Mary II (1701)
07 - Died: Katherine Parr, 6th wife of  King Henry VIII (1548)
Married: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Lady Catherine Willoughby (1534)
Born:  Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of  King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn (1533)
Died:  Princess Joan of the Tower, daughter of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1362)
King Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf during the third crusade (1191)
08 - Coronation of William IV (1831)
Suspicious death of Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's favorite (1560)
Born:  King Richard I, the Lion Heart, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle of England & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1157)
09 - Mary Stuart, at 9 months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in Stirling (1543)
Died:  James IV, King of Scotland (1513)
Married:  Prince Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence & Lady Elizabeth de Burgh (1342)
Died:  King William I, the Conqueror, King of England, son of Duke Robert the Devil & Herleva, after a fall from his horse, succeeded by King William II Rufus(1087)
10 - Died: Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I (1669)
Died:  Princess Matilda, daughter of  King Henry I Beauclerc of England & Matilda (Edith) of Scotland (1167)
11 - Born:  Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) & Eleanor of Castle (1275)
12 - Died: Blanche of Lancaster, wife of Prince John of Gaunt (1369, born 1345)
13 - German bombs damage Buckingham Palace (1940)
14 - Born: The Hon. Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy (1928), husband of  Princess Alexandra
Born:  Duke Edgar of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1667)
Died:  Princess Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1495)
Died:  Prince John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, son of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1336)
15 - Born:  Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales (1984), son of  Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales & Diana, Princess of Wales
Died: Prince John, Duke of Bedford, son of King Henry IV & Mary de Bohun (1435)
Died: Prince Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of  King Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (1397)
16 - Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of Scotland and England (1701)
20 - Born: Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1486)
21 - Died: King Edward II, murdered in Berkeley Castle, deposed during his life and succeeded by his son Edward III (1327)
22 - Born: Captain Mark Anthony Peter Philips (1948), ex-husband of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal
Died:  Princess Augusta Sophia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1840)
Born:  Prince Alfred Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1780)
King George III crowned at Westminster (1761)
Born: Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of  King Henry VIII (1515)
23 - War of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath: Yorkist victory (1459)
Born:  Prince Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1158)
26 - King William II Rufus crowned at Westminster (1087)
28 - At the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 'God Save the King', the national anthem, was sung for the first time (1745)
King Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose (1106)
King William the Conqueror invades England: Battle of Hastings (1066)
29 - Born:  Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1766)
King Richard II abdicates (1399)
Born:  Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Henry III & Eleanor of Provence (1240)
30 - Born: Lady Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Windsor (1992), daughter of George, Earl of St Andrews and Sylvana Tomaselli
October
01 - Queen Mary I crowned at Westminster (1553)
Died:  Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1361)
Born:  King Henry III, son of  King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1207)
Died: King Edwy, reportedly murdered by Canute (959), succeeded by King Edgar
02 - Born:  King Richard III of England, son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York & Lady Cicely Nevill (1452)
05 - Born: Queen Mary of Modena, wife of King James II (1658)
06 - Died:  Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1828)
08 - Married: Viscount & Viscountess Linley (1993)
09 - Born:  Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, The Duke of Kent (1935), son of George, Duke of Kent & Princess Marina of Greece
Died: Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of King Charles II (1709)
Married:  Princess Mary Tudor &  King Louis XII of France (1514)
 King Henry VI becomes King for the second time after losing the crown in 1461 (1470)
10 - Married:  Prince Edward, Prince of Wales & Joan, Countess of Kent (1361)
Born:  Princess Mary, daughter of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1344)
11 - King George II crowned at Westminster (1727)
King Henry VIII becomes 'Defender of the Faith', a title conferred by Pope Leo X (1521)
Died:  Count William of Boulogne, son of  King Stephen of England & Matilda of Boulogne (1159)
12 - Born:  King Edward VI, son of  King Henry VIII & Jane Seymour (1537)
War of the Roses: Battle of Ludford Bridge: Lancastrian victory (1459)
Died:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Edward I (Longshanks) & Eleanor of Castile (1297)
13 - Born:  Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, son of  King Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou (1453)
King Henry IV crowned at Westminster (1399)
Born:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1162)
14 - Born:  King James II of England, son of  King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France (1633)
Born: Electress Sophia of Hanover (1630)
Died:  Prince Henry, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1274)
Died:  King Harold II, son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex & Gytha, killed at the battle of Hastings, succeeded by King William I the Conqueror (1066)
15 - Born: Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), ex-wife of Prince Andrew, The Duke of York
16 - Born: King James II of Scotland (1430)
17 - King David II of Scotland is captured by King Edward III of England at Calais and imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 years (1346)
18 - Died:  Princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1541)
19 - Died: King John of England (1216), succeeded by his son King Henry III
20 - Coronation of  King George I at Westminster (1714)
21 - Born: Prince George, Duke of Clarence, younger brother of King Edward IV of England (1449)
22 - Born: Duke Charles of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1660)
24 - Born: Alexander Patrick Gregers Richard, Earl of Ulster (1974), son of Richard, Duke of Gloucester & Birgitte van Deurs
Died: Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of  King Henry VIII (1537)
25 - Died:  King George II, succeeded by his grandson King George III (1760)
The army of King Henry V defeats the French army at the battle of Agincourt (1415)
Died:  King Stephen of England (1154), succeeded by King Henry II
26 - Died:  Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1944)
Died: Catherine Sedley, mistress of King James II (1717)
Married:  Princess Philippa & Eric X of Pomerania, King of Denmark (1406)
Died: King Alfred the Great (899)
27 - Died: King Athelstan, succeeded by King Edmund (939 or 940)
28 - Died: Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of England (1708)
King Henry III crowned at Gloucester (1216)
29 - Died: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (2004)
Born: Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Queen of Romania, daughter of  Prince Alfred Ernest Albert & Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1875)
30 - Born:  King George II, King of England, son of  King George I &  Queen Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1683)
King Henry VII crowned at Westminster (1485)
31 - Died:  Princess Amelia Sophia Eleanor Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1786)
Died:  Duke William Augustus of Cumberland Hanover, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1765)
Died:  Princess Eleanor, daughter of  King Henry II Curtmantle & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1214)
November
01 - Married:  King Richard II of England & Isabella of France (1396)
02 - Died:  Princess Amelia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1810)
Born:  Princess Sophia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1777)
Born: Edward Augustus Hanover, Duke of Kent, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1767)
Born:  Princess Anne Hanover, Princess Royal, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1709)
Born:  Princess Anne, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1475)
Died:  Prince Baldwin, son of  King Stephen of England & Matilda of Boulogne (1135)
03 - Born: David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (1961), son of  Princess Margaret & Antony, Earl of Snowdon
04 - Married:  Queen Mary II of England &  King William III of Orange (1677)
Born:  King William III, son of King William II of Orange and Mary, daughter of King Charles I (1650)
Born:  Princess Mary Stuart, daughter of  King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France (1631)
Born:  King Edward V of England, son of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1470)
Married:  Prince Edmund of Langley, Duke of York & Joan Holland (1393)
06 - Married: TRH The Prince Henry & Princess Alice, Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (1935, widowed 1974)
Died:  Princess Charlotte Augusta Hanover, daughter of  King George IV &  Queen Caroline (1817)
Died:  Prince Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, son of  King James I &  Queen Anne (1612)
Coronation of  King Henry VI  at Westminster (1429)
08 - Born: Lady Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten Windsor, daughter of Prince Edward Earl of Wessex & Sophie Countess of Wessex (2003)
Born:  Princess Augusta Sophia Hanover, daughter of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1768)
09 - Born:  King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert (1841)
Queen Catherine Howard confined in the London Tower (1541)
10 - Born:  Princess Bridget, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1480)
12 - Born: Alexander Charles Ogilvy (1996), son of James Ogilvy & Julia Rawlinson
Died: King Duncan II of Scotland (1094)
Died:  King Canute II, King of England and Denmark, son of  King Sweyn Forbeard of Denmark & Gunhilda (1035), succeeded by King Harold I Harefoot
13 - Born:  Prince George William Hanover, son of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1717)
Born:  King Edward III of England, son of  King Edward II of England & Isabella of France (1312)
Died: King Malcolm III of Scotland (1093)
14 - Married:  The Princess Royal & Captain Mark Phillips (1973 - divorced 23 April 1992)
Born:  Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, The Prince of Wales (1948), son  Queen Elizabeth II &  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Married:  Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales & Catherine of Aragon (1501)
Married:  Princess Elizabeth & Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford (1302)
15 - Born: Master Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (1977), son of  Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips
Died:  Duke Edgar of Cambridge, son of  King James II &  Anne Hyde(1669)
Died:  Princess Henrietta, daughter of  King James II &  Anne Hyde (1669)
Died:  Princess Catherine, daughter of  King Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville (1527)
16 - Died:  King Henry III (1272), succeeded by his son Edward I
17 - Died:  Queen Mary I of England, her half-sister Elizabeth I becomes Queen (1558)
18 - Died:  King Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover, son of  King George III &  Queen Charlotte (1851)
19 - Born: Lady Davina Elizabeth Alice Benedikte Windsor (1977), daughter of Richard, Duke of Gloucester & Birgitte van Deurs
Born:  King Charles I, son of  King James I &  Queen Anne (1600)
20 - Married:  HM Queen Elizabeth II &  The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1947)
Died:  Princess Maude Charlotte Mary (later Maude, Queen of Norway), daughter of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1938)
Died:  Queen Alexandra, wife of  King Edward VII (1925)
Died: Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of King George II (1737)
Died: King Edmund of East Anglia (870)
21 - Born:  Victoria Adelaide Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1840)
22 - Married:  King George I & Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1682)
23 - Married:  King James I & Anne of Denmark (1589)
Died:  Princess Anne, daughter of  King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville (1511)
Married:  Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall & Sanchia of Provence (1243)
Died: King Edred, succeeded by his nephew, King Edwy (955)
24 - Married:  King James II & Anne Hyde (1659)
Born:  Prince Alfonso, Earl of Chester, son of  King Edward I (Longshanks) of England & Eleanor of Castile (1273)
25 - Born: Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King Charles II (1638)
Born:  Princess Katherine, daughter of  King Henry III of England & Eleanor of Provence (1253)
Died:  Prince William, Duke of Normandy, son of  King Henry I Beauclerc of England & Matilda (Edith) of Scotland (1120)
Died: King Malcolm II of Scotland (1034)
26 - Born:  Princess Maude Charlotte Mary, daughter of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1869)
28 - Married:  Princess Sophia Dorothea Hanover & Frederick William I, King of Prussia (1706)
Born:  Princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of  King Henry VII & Elizabeth of York (1489)
Died: Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England (1290)
Died: Prince Owain Gwynned (1170)
29 - Married:  Prince George Edward Alexander, Duke of Kent &  Princess Marina of Greece (1934)
Born:  Prince Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, son of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1338)
King Edmund crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames (940)
30 - Died: Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King Charles II (1705)
Died: King Edmund II Ironside, probably assassinated, succeeded by King Cnut (Canute) (1016)
December
01 - Born: Queen Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII (1844)
Died:  Princess Isabella, daughter of  King John Lackland of England & Isabella of Angouleme (1241)
Died:  King Henry I, son of  William I the Conqueror of England & Matilda of Flanders (1135), succeeded by King Stephen
02 - Born: Edward Edmund Maximillian George Windsor, Baron Downpatrick (1988), son of George, Earl of St Andrews & Sylvana Tomaselli
Died: Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of King William IV (1849)
04 - Died: King William I of Scotland (1214)
03 - Died:  Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1939)
Died:  Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga, daughter of  King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (1935)
05 - Died:  Princess Catherine, daughter of  King James II &  Anne, Duchess of York (1671)
06 - Born:  King Henry VI, son of  King Henry V of England & Catherine of Valois (1421)
07 - Born: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Queen Mary I of Scotland (1545)
Coronation of  King Henry VI of England as King of France (1431)
08 - Born:  Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of  King James V of Scotland & Mary of Guise (1542)
09 - Born: King Malcolm IV of Scotland (1165)
10 - Born: King James I of Scotland (1394)
Died:  Prince Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, son of  King Edward III of England & Philippa of Hainault (1363)
11 - Abdication of King Edward VIII (1936), succeeded by his brother King George VI
Married:  Princess Louisa Hanover & Frederick V, King of Denmark (1743)
Died:  Princess Margaret, daughter of  King Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville (1472)
12 - Married:  The Princess Royal & Captain Timothy Laurence (1992)
Born: Anne of Denmark, Queen of King James I of England (1574)
14 - Born: King George VI (1895), son of  King George V & Princess Mary of Teck
Died: Princess Alice Maud Mary, daughter of  Queen Victoria &  Prince Albert (1878)
Died: Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria (1861)
Died: King James V of Scotland (1542), succeeded by Mary, Queen of Scots
15 - Born: Flora Alexandra Ogilvy (1994), daughter of James Ogilvy & Julia Rawlinson
16 - Born: Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of  King Henry VIII (1485)
17 - Born: James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex and Sophie, The Countess of Wessex (2007)
18 - Born: Prince William of Gloucester (1941), son of Henry, Duke of Gloucester & Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Born:  Princess Louisa Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1724)
19 - Died:  Princess Louisa Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1751)
King Henry II crowned King of England at Westminster (1154)
20 - Born:  Prince George Edward Alexander, Duke of Kent, son of  King George V &  Queen Mary (1902)
Died: King Aethelbald (860), succeeded by King Aethelbert
21 - Born: Estella Taylor, daughter of Timothy Taylor & Lady Helen Windsor (2004)
24 - Died:  Princess Mary Stuart, daughter of  King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France (1660)
Born:  Princess Margaret Stuart, daughter of  King James I &  Queen Anne (1598)
Born:  King John, son of  King Henry II Curtmantle of England & Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine (1167)
25 - Born:  Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel (1936), daughter of George, Duke of Kent & Princess Marina of Greece
Born:  Princess Alice Christabel, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), wife of Henry, Duke of Gloucester
King William I the Conqueror crowned at Westminster (1066)
26 - Born: Cassius Edward Taylor, son of Lady Helen Windsor & Timothy Taylor (1996)
Married:  Princess Margaret &  King Alexander III of Scotland (1251)
King Stephen crowned at Westminster (1135)
28 - Died:  Princess Caroline Elizabeth Hanover, daughter of  King George II &  Queen Caroline (1757)
Died:  Queen Mary II (1694)
30 - War of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield: Lancastrian victory (1460)
31 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada (1857)
Died (executed): Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III (1460)

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