* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

After Anna died in 1281, in 1284 Andronikos II then married Yolanda ( renamed Irene ), a daughter of Marquis William VII of Montferrat, with whom he had:

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

The Bill of Rights also stated that the line of succession would go through their descendants, then through Mary's sister Princess Anne, and her descendants, and then to the issue of William III by a later marriage ( if he were to marry again after the death of Mary II ).

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.

* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

The Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler ( painter ) | William Sadler II

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

William the Breton, chaplain to Philip II at Bouvines at the battle, that the lines of soldiers stood in line in a space of 40 000 steps ( 15 hectares ), which leaves very little clearance and predisposes melee.

William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work, Hortus Kewensis.

* 1792 – King William II of the Netherlands ( d. 1849 )

During the conflict which resulted from the ousting of King James II by his Protestant rival, William III, Enniskillen and Derry were the focus of Williamite resistance in Ireland, including the nearby Battle of Newtownbutler.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

* 1911 – William Darby, American World War II Army officer ( d. 1945 )

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

Tancred's sons William Iron Arm, Drogo of Hauteville, Humphrey of Hauteville, Robert Guiscard and Roger the Great Count conquered the Emirate of Sicily and additional territories in Southern Italy.

In July 1127, William II, Duke of Apulia, died childless, and almost immediately his cousin King Roger II of Sicily sailed to the mainland to occupy the duchies of Apulia and Calabria.

In exchange, Innocent was also able to recover papal rights in Sicily that had been surrendered decades earlier to King William I of Sicily by Pope Adrian IV.

After the death of King William II of Sicily his cousin Tancred of Lecce had seized power and had been crowned early in 1190 as King Tancred I of Sicily, although the legal heir was William's aunt Constance, wife of the new Emperor Henry VI.

* William I of Sicily ( died 1166 )

The kingship of William I is recognised over all Sicily, Apulia, Calabria, and Campania, as well as Capua.

* William I of Sicily, king

He is succeded by his youngest son, William I of Sicily

* A rebellion breaks out against William II of Sicily, and the Byzantine Empire, encouraged by Pope Adrian IV, invades Apulia.

* William III of Sicily ( executed ) ( b. 1208 )

* November 11 – King William II of Sicily (" the Good ") ( b. 1153 )

Becket's cousins obtained refuge at the Sicilian court during his exile, and King William II of Sicily wed a daughter of Henry II.

In the first, beginning in October 1154 his plan was to launch a campaign against the Normans under King William I of Sicily.

The retreat of Frederick in 1155 forced Pope Adrian IV to come to terms with King William I of Sicily, granting to William I territories that Frederick viewed as his dominion.

She was betrothed to King William II of Sicily but died before they could be married.

* William III of Sicily ( d. 1198 )

* Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.

* May 7 – William I of Sicily

Although Stephen's son William was young and unprepared to challenge Henry for the throne in 1153, the situation could well have shifted in subsequent years — there were widespread rumours during 1154 that William planned to assassinate Henry, for example.

* April – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( b. 1153 )

William accused them of hindering the Siege of Ascalon in 1153 ; of poorly defending a cave-fortress in 1165, for which twelve Templars were hanged by King Amalric ; of sabotaging the invasion of Egypt in 1168 ; and of murdering Assassin ambassadors in 1173.

William ( 17 August 1153 – April 1156 ) was the first child of Henry, Duke of Normandy ( later Henry II of England ) and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

* William of York, Archbishop ( 1141 – 1147, 1153 – 1154 )

Although Stephen's son William was young and unprepared to challenge Henry for the throne in 1153, the situation could well have shifted in subsequent years — there were widespread rumours during 1154 that William planned to assassinate Henry, for example.

William was in Sussex in 1153, but he followed Duke Henry, soon to become King Henry II, to Normandy in 1154.

William de Braose, ( or William de Briouze ), 4th Lord of Bramber ( 1144 / 1153 – 9 August 1211 ), court favourite of King John of England, at the peak of his power, was also Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze in Normandy, Grosmont, and White Castle.

* William IX ( 1153 – 1156 ) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England

* William IX, Count of Poitiers ( 1153 – 1156 ), first son of Henry II of England

* 1153 – 1159: William I ( brother of, also count of Mortain and Earl of Surrey )

* William IX, Count of Poitiers ( 1153 – 1156 )

William escaped before the fall of the city, spending the next fifteen years in exile before the return of Henry II in 1153.

Cullen received royal burgh status between 1153 and 1214 AD during the reigns of Malcolm IV and William I.

In 1153 – 4 de Luci was granted Chipping Ongar, Essex by William, son of King Stephen and his wife, Maud of Boulogne, where he built Ongar Castle.

Haughmond's promotion to abbey status came as it continued to grow and prosper-even though William Fitzalan, its main benefactor, took the side of the Empress and was exiled from the region from 1138 until at least 1153.

William I of Blois ( c. 1137 – 11 October 1159 ) was Count of Boulogne ( 1153 – 1159 ) and Earl of Surrey jure uxoris ( 1153 – 1159 ).

When his elder brother, Eustace IV of Boulogne, died in 1153, William was passed over in the succession to England.

The church was commissioned by the great grandson of William the Conqueror, Hugh de Puiset who was the Bishop of Durham ( 1153 – 1195 )