2012 Event All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch 2011 Event Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia dies, raising questions about succession in the kingdom 2010 Event Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of Kim Jong-il, states his opposition to North Korea's succession plan to transfer power to his younger brother, Kim Jong-un 1990 Birthday Princess Eugenie of York, born in Portland Hospital, London, the sixth and the second female in the succession line to the thrones of sixteen independent Commonwealth states 1984 Birthday Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession 1980 Event Sweden changes order of succession to throne 1977 Birthday Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne 1968 Birthday Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, born in Utrecht, Netherlands, 10th in line of succession to the Dutch throne 1967 Event 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified 1967 Event 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect 1947 Event President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act 1861 Event President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession 1792 Event U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed 1792 Event Congress passes President Succession Act 1779 Event War of Bavarian Succession ends 1748 Event Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession 1745 Event Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war 1714 Event Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1704 Event War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1702 Event War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England and France 1515 Event Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne
