Portal:Monarchy/DYK
DYK 1
- … that the public reaction after the death of prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany's former royal houses from service in the military?
- … that, following the Moldavian Revolution of 1848, revolutionaries installed Grigore Alexandru Ghica as the new prince of Moldavia in 1849 because he supported their liberal programme?
- … that Willem IV van den Bergh was Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen until being arrested in 1583 by Elbertus Leoninus for treason?
DYK 2
- ... that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War?
- ... that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
- ... that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
DYK 3
- ... that Andreas Frederik Krieger (pictured) was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen?
- ... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason?
- ... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin (pictured) by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide?
DYK 4
- ... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden (pictured) to design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826?
- ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
- ... that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of the Turkish, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
DYK 5
- ... that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch (pictured), a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
- ... that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule in circa 522 BCE?
- ... that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
DYK 6
- ... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
- ... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of King James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
- ... that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of Poland?
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