`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.

** Nicholas I ( 1470 – 1473 )

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

* 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

In 913, Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned Emperor ( Tsar ) by the Patriarch of Constantinople and imperial regent Nicholas Mystikos outside of the Byzantine capital.

Pope Nicholas I and the western bishops took up the cause of Ignatios and condemned Photios's election as uncanonical.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

The tsar was succeeded by his younger brother, Nicholas I ( 1825 – 1855 ), who at the onset of his reign was confronted with an uprising.

Luckily for Europe, their need for large armies fit the philosophy of Tsar Nicholas I.

Hotel Astoria ( Saint Petersburg ) | Hotel Astoria and a statue of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in front, in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Through his paternal grandfather, he is also a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

* 1796 – Nicholas I of Russia ( d. 1855 )

" After the paper published an article strongly criticising the monarchy in Russia, the Russian Tsar Nicholas I, an ally of the Prussian monarchy, requested that the Rheinische Zeitung be banned.

Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pleti, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls.

In the 16th century, Onofrio Panvinio attributed the biographies after Damasus until Pope Nicholas I ( 858 – 867 ) to Anastasius Bibliothecarius ; Anastasius continued to be cited as the author into the 17th century, although this attribution was disputed by the scholarship of Caesar Baronius, Ciampini, Schelstrate and others.

The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).

* The Copeman Empire, run from a caravan park in Norfolk, England, by its founder Nick Copeman, who changed his name by deed poll to HM King Nicholas I.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.

Nicholas summed up the situation as follows: " I wish to move in one direction, and it is clear that Mama wishes me to move in another-my dream is to one day marry Alix.

Mary's mother assumed regency and Palatine Nicholas I Garay and Cardinal Demetrius took the reins of government.

Nicholas I Garay defending his sovereign Mary and her mother Elizabeth from the Croatians.

* 1841 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro ( d. 1921 )

Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims, informed Nicholas I that a messenger whom he had sent to Leo IV learned on his way of the death of this Pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it ( Hincmar, ep.

For example, Photius I of Constantinople, who became Patriarch in 858 and was deposed by Pope Nicholas I in 863, was an enemy of the Pope.

** In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.

Carpenter's article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 ( 1983 ), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as the fictional director " Aram Nicholas ," a sympathetic but possibly misguided and naive character.

He became a familiar face on television when he played Jon in the BBC's landmark 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, the lead in a BBC serialisation of Nicholas Nickleby ( 1968 ), Uriah Heep in the 1974 BBC version of David Copperfield and the male lead in the sitcom Rings On Their Fingers ( 1978 – 80 ) with Diane Keen.

Over the next 80 years Grosseto was again occupied, ravaged, excommunicated by Pope Clement IV, freed in a republic led by Maria Scozia Tolomei, besieged by emperor Louis IV and by the antipope Nicholas V in 1328, until it finally submitted to its more powerful neighbour, Siena.

* Star 80 ( as Aram Nicholas ), 1983

Nicholas John Steel Traina ( May 1, 1978 – September 20, 1997 ) was an American singer, who was lead singer for the punk band Link 80.

In 1831 Nicholas died at the age of 80 and was succeeded by his second and only living son, Prince Boris, since their elder son, Prince Nikolai, died in infancy.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Historian Nicholas Edsall writes, Stonewall has been compared to any number of acts of radical protest and defiance in American history from the Boston Tea Party on.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has described this membership roll and other, similar claims as " spurious " and " fanciful ", noting that Feder, Eckart and Rosenberg were never more than guests to whom the Thule Society extended hospitality during the Bavarian revolution of 1918, although he has more recently acknowledged that Hess and Frank were members of the Society before they came to prominence in the Nazi Party.

Historian Nicholas Brooks holds the view that Stigand was not excommunicated at this time, but rather was ordered to refrain from any archiepiscopal functions, such as the consecration of bishops.

Historian Edward Acton argues that " by stubbornly refusing to reach any modus vivendi with the Progressive Bloc of the Duma ... Nicholas undermined the loyalty of even those closest to the throne opened an unbridgeable breach between himself and public opinion.

Historian Nicholas Rogers points to an anti-corporate message where an otherwise successful businessman turns " oddly irrational " and seeks to " promote a more robotic future for commerce and manufacture.

Historian Nicholas von Hoffman wrote in The Washington Post that evidence revealed in the Venona project forced him to admit that McCarthy was " closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him ".

* Nicholas Crafts-Economic Historian

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke analyzed the topic in The Occult Roots of Nazism.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's 1985 book The Occult Roots of Nazism discussed the possibility of links between the ideas of the Occult and the ideas of Nazism.

Historian Nicholas Canny writes, ' most insurgents seemed anxious for a resolution of their immediate economic difficulties by seizing the property of any of the settlers.

Historian Nicholas Canny suggests that the violence escalated after a failed rebel assault on Lisnagarvey in November 1641, after which the settlers killed several hundred captured insurgents.

Historian Nicholas Campion has discussed the roots of the notion that celestial and psychological realms are connected, which can be traced to the sixth century BC, and in Ptolemy's case presents a mixture of Aristotelian and Stoic philosophy, resting on the Platonic view that " the soul comes from the heavens " which explains " how human character comes to be determined by the heavens ".

Historian Karin Feuerstein-Prasser has pointed out on the basis of evaluations of the correspondence between both fiancées, what different expectations Wilhelm had of both marriages: Wilhelm wrote to his sister Charlotte, the wife of Nicholas I of Russia, with reference to Elisa Radziwill: " One can love only once in life, really " and confessed with regard to Augusta, that " the Princess is nice and clever, but she leaves me cold.

* Nicholas Tarling Historian