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2013 Event - Beatrix of the Netherlands announces she will abdicate her throne to her son, Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, on April 30, 2013

2001 Event - The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride

1995 Death - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88

1992 Death - Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74

1980 Event - Sweden changes order of succession to throne

1977 Birthday - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne

1977 Event - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar

1972 Death - Ezra Loomis Pound, U.S. poet (Throne), dies at 87

1968 Birthday - Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, born in Utrecht, Netherlands, 10th in line of succession to the Dutch throne

1968 Birthday - Felipe de Borbon, Prince of Asturias, heir to Spanish throne

1967 Event - Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne

1962 Event - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria

1961 Event - King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco

1960 Birthday - Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan, eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko

1956 Event - Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)

1953 Death - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered

1952 Birthday - Monique Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince/Heir Apparent to Thailand throne

1951 Event - King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I

1948 Event - Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne

1947 Event - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne

1944 Event - King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne

1944 Event - King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto

1944 Event - Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne

1941 Event - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi

1939 Event - Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq

1936 Event - King Edward VIII marries Mrs. Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI

1936 Event - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson

1928 Event - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan

1926 Death - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63

1924 Event - King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne

1922 Event - Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech

1918 Event - Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates throne

1918 Event - Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne

1917 Event - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

1914 Birthday - Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne

1910 Event - King George V ascends to British throne

1907 Birthday - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne

1862 Birthday - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to throne

1837 Event - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

1833 Death - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44

1808 Event - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain

1788 Death - Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67

1774 Event - Louis XVI ascends to throne of France

1760 Event - George III ascends British throne

1736 Event - Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne

1724 Event - Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne

1720 Birthday - [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne

1716 Event - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France

1715 Event - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead

1714 Death - Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies

1708 Event - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk

1708 Event - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth

1702 Event - England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III

1700 Event - Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne

1689 Event - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne

1660 Event - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth

1625 Event - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne

1598 Event - Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I

1561 Event - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France

1558 Event - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary

1551 Event - Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne

1515 Event - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne

1512 Death - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle

1509 Event - Henry VIII ascended to throne of England

1483 Event - Richard III usurps English throne

1451 Event - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne

1399 Event - King Richard II of England abdicates throne

1347 Event - Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV

1327 Event - King Edward III accedes to British throne

1081 Event - Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne

979 Event - Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England

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