List Of Russian Empresses

Sunday, July 17

Highlights in history on this date:

1429 - With Saint Joan of Arc standing by, Charles VII is crowned king of France in Reims, a day after the English-held town surrenders.

1453 - The French defeat the English at the battle of Castillon, ending the Hundred Years' War, with Calais the only English possession on the continent.

1586 - Sir Francis Walsingham, diplomat and principal secretary to England's Queen Elizabeth, exposes Babington Plot, a letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Anthony Babington planning Queen Elizabeth's murder. As a result, Mary is executed a year later.

1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh is arrested for suspected complicity in plot to dethrone England's King James I.

1683 - Turks lay siege to Vienna, marking the high tide of Ottoman power in Europe.

1762 - Peter III, Czar of Russia , is assassinated a week after he abdicates the throne. His wife, Catherine II, who suspected Peter was going to divorce her, conspires to overthrow him and becomes Empress of Russia .

1791 - Troops under Marquis de Lafayette fire at a crowd of petitioners gathered on the Champ de Mars in Paris to demand the abdication of the king, killing or wounding about 50 demonstrators.

1890 - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape Colony in Africa.

1894 - Italian forces take Kassale, Sudan, from the Dervishes.

1918 - Communists kill last Russia n czar, Nicholas II, and his family following the October Revolution in the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg.

1936 - Spanish Civil War starts as General Francisco Franco leads army forces in revolt against the government.

1945 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Atlee, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam, Germany, to settle the post World War II future of Europe, in a conference that lasts until Aug. 2.

1955 - Disneyland, the first Disney amusement park, opens its gates in Anaheim, California.

1965 - U.S. B-52 bombers from Guam make their first strikes in Vietnam in support of Allied ground operations.

1968 - The Baath Party, including Saddam Hussein, overthrows the Iraqi government.

1973 - Afghanistan is proclaimed republic following palace coup that ends 40-year rule of King Mohammad Zaher Shah.

1975 - U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts in Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft link up while in orbit and join hands.

Russian Women, Executed Russian Women, Russian Consorts, Russian Empresses, Russian Female Murderers, Women of Medieval Russia

Russian parks and gardens

The emperors and empresses of Russia, rediscovering the Romanovs

Russian travelers to Constantinople in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Archæology of the United States. Or, Sketches, historical and bibliographical, of the progress of information and opinion regarding vestiges of antiquity in the United States