* 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.

* 1962 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.

The current ruler, Prince Albert II, succeeded his father Prince Rainier III in 2005.

Prince Rainier, in turn, had acceded to the throne following the death of his grandfather, Prince Louis II, in 1949.

A first Constitution of Monaco was adopted in 1911 and a new one, awarded by Prince Rainier III on December 17, 1962, outlines legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, which consist of several administrative offices and a number of councils.

* 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.

* 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

* May 9 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.

* May 30 – Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns from her rights in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later reigning Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

** Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.

* December 7 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.

* May 31 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco ( d. 2005 )

Grace Patricia Kelly ( November 12, 1929September 14, 1982 ) was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.

She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie.

While there, she was invited to participate in a photo session at the Palace of Monaco with Prince Rainier III, the sovereign of the principality.

" Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier with a dowry of 2 million USD in order for the marriage to go ahead.

Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had three children:

After the wedding, Prince Rainier banned the screening of Kelly's films .< ref name = imdb >

Bitter, estranged and plagued by depression, Hjördis showed up drunk at the funeral, having been persuaded to attend by family friend Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

It was her engagement ring from Prince Rainier III, a 12 carat diamond surrounded by rubies to represent Monaco ’ s red-and-white national colors.

* Albert III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst ( d. 1359 )

Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.

In the beginning of the next year, the child Danylo was again expelled from Halych but Andrew denied to give assistance to him because the child prince's opponent, Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych had bribed him.

In 1208, taking advantage of the quarrel between Prince Roman Igorevych and his boyars, Andrew occupied Halych and appointed a regent to govern the principality in his name, but Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych managed to reconquer his principality already in the following year.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

The Battle of Muret was a massive step in the creation of the unified French kingdom and the country we know today — although Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V would threaten later to shake these foundations.

* 1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco, founder of the Monte Carlo casino ( d. 1889 )

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.

From that point, there were various factions pressing for his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William III of Orange, to replace him in what became known as the Glorious Revolution.

* 1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial French son of Napoleon III of France ( b. 1856 )

* 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England ( b. 1330 )

* 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.

* Charles III ( 1 January 176631 January 1788 ), Charles Edward Stuart, also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Chevalier, or the Young Pretender.

Thus Richard Blackmore's epics Prince Arthur ( 1695 ) and King Arthur ( 1697 ) feature Arthur as an allegory for the struggles of William III against James II.

At the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, the king replied, " say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs.

* Albert I, Prince of Monaco ( 1848 – 1922 )

* Albert II, Prince of Monaco ( born 1958 ), ruler of the principality of Monaco

In such cases it is the prime minister who holds the day-to-day powers of governance, while the King or Queen ( or other monarch, such as a Grand Duke, in the case of Luxembourg, or Prince in the case of Monaco and Liechtenstein ) retains only residual ( but not always minor ) powers.

The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Anthony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco ( ACM ).

The Principality of Monaco was selected because of its easy communication with the rest of the world and also because of the generous offer of Albert I, Prince of Monaco to provide suitable accommodations for the Bureau in the Principality.

* 1870 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco ( d. 1949 )

* 1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco ( b. 1597 )

Monarchs have various titles — king or queen, prince or princess ( e. g., Sovereign Prince of Monaco ), Malik or Malikah ( e. g., Maliks of Middle eastern Mamlakahs ), emperor or empress ( e. g., Emperor of Japan, Emperor of India ), Shah of Iran, archduke, duke or grand duke ( e. g., Grand Duke of Luxembourg ).

Honoré II, Prince of Monaco secured recognition of his independent sovereignty from Spain in 1633, and then from Louis XIII of France by the Treaty of Péronne ( 1641 ).

The Prince of Monaco was an absolute ruler until the Monegasque Revolution of 1910 forced him to proclaim a constitution in 1911.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

Under Prince Louis ' secret orders, the Monaco police, often at great risk to themselves, warned in advance those people whom the Gestapo planned to arrest.

The politics of Monaco have traditionally been under the autocratic control of the Prince of Monaco, and from its founding, the principality was a monarchy ruled by the House of Grimaldi ; however, with the creation of a Constitution in 1911, the Prince relinquished his autocratic rule and the principality became a constitutional monarchy.

While having relinquished some of his formerly absolute power, the Prince of Monaco remains head of state and retains most of the country's governing power ; however, the principality's judicial and legislative bodies may operate independent of his control.

The Minister of the Department of the Interior, is appointed by The Prince for one five year term, and is mainly responsible for both policing and military activity within Monaco.

One is the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco, and the other is the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince.