March 3 in royal history Royal Events The Tang Dynasty of China was restored on 3 March 705 after Empress Wu Zetian of the Zhou Dynasty was deposed The Statute of Rhuddlan, annexing Wales to England under Edward I, was enacted on 3 March 1284 Mughal Emperor Akbar defeated the Afghan sultan of Bengal Daud Khan at the Battle of Tukaroi on 3 March 1575 Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Law, freeing the serfs, on 3 March 1861 Royal Births John II of Portugal was born on 3 March 1455 Landgravine Anna of Hesse-Darmstadt, wife of Albrecht Otto I, Count of Solms-Laubach, was born on 3 March 1583 Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, was born on 3 March 1778 Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, wife of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, was born on 3 March 1876 Prince Bernard Frederick of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, son of Grand Duke William Ernest, was born on 3 March 1917 Royal Weddings and Divorces Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII and widow of Louis XII of France, secretly married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, on 3 March 1515 Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VII and widow of James IV of Scotland, married Henry Stewart, Lord Methven, on 3 March 1528 Princess Takako of Japan, youngest daughter of Emperor Hirohito, married Hisanaga Shimazu on 3 March 1960 Andrew and Camilla Parker Bowles divorced on 3 March 1995; she later married Prince Charles Royal Deaths Bohemond I, Prince of Taranto and Antioch, a leader of the First Crusade, died on 3 March 1111 and was succeeded by his son Bohemond II\ Vladimir IV Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev, died on 3 March 1239 John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, died on 3 March 1554, having been overthrown in 1547 in favour of his cousin Maurice Nyaungyan Min, fifth king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma, died on 3 March 1606 and was succeeded by his son Anaukpetlun Aurangzeb, sixth Mughal Emperor of India, died on 3 March 1707 and was succeeded by his son Bahadur Shah I Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, wife of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, died on 3 March 1862 Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, third Duke of Aosta, died in a Kenyan prison camp on 3 March 1942 and was succeeded by his brother Aimone
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