* 1961 – Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.

This was capitalized upon by King Hassan II of Morocco, who ordered the ' Green March ' into Western Sahara, Spain's last colonial possession.

Hassan II became King of Morocco on March 3, 1961.

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997, and with the death of King Hassan II of Morocco in 1999, the more liberal-minded Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, who assumed the title of Mohammed VI, took the throne.

In November 1975, King Hassan mobilized 350, 000 unarmed Moroccan citizens in what came to be known as the " Green March " into Western Sahara.

At the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) summit in June 1981, King Hassan announced his willingness to hold a referendum in the Western Sahara.

* 1920 – King Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Malaysia ( d. 2000 )

* 1975 – Green March begins: 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

In November of that year, the Green March into Western Sahara began when 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

In 1958, the Moroccan King Mohammed V in an address at El Ghizlan called for a renewal of the " everlasting allegiance " that some Saharan tribes had pledged to Moulay Hassan I and promised that Morocco would mobilise itself to see the Western Sahara brought under Moroccan rule.

About 350, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the city of Tarfaya in southern Morocco and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

* July 23 – King Hassan II of Morocco ( b. 1929 )

* July 9 – King Hassan II of Morocco ( d. 1999 )

* February 26 – Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.

* March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.

* November 6 – The Green March begins: 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

* June 7 – King Hassan I of Morocco ( b. 1836 )

King Hassan II of Morocco gave him full support for the production of the film.

He said that he did not intend to " unload our Moroccan hooligans " onto the Moroccan King Hassan.

A highlight of this time in office was a trip to Morocco to confer with King Hassan II.

It was only when Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak met Algerian President Abdalziz Bouteflika at the funeral of the Moroccan King Hassan the second on July 25, 1999 that comments about rapprochment were made.

In 1986, King Hassan II invited then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for talks, becoming the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader.

* Hassan II ( 1929-1999 ) King of Morocco.

King Hassan II of Morocco immediately claimed the area of Western Sahara evacuated by Mauritania ( Tiris al-Gharbiya, roughly corresponding to the southern half of Río de Oro ), which was unilaterally annexed by Morocco in August 1979.

* 1205 – King Amalric II of Jerusalem ( b. 1145 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

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

* Albert II of Germany ( 1397 – 1439 ), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria

* Albert II of Belgium ( born 1934 ), sixth King of the Belgians

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

John of Worcester, a medieval chronicler, stated that Ealdred crowned King Harold II in 1066, although the Norman chroniclers mention Stigand as the officiating prelate.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

# Margaret ( 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283 ), who married King Eirik II of Norway

* Alexander II of Macedon, King of Macedon from 370 to 368 BC

* Alexander II of Epirus ( died 260 BC ), King of Epirus in 272 BC

* Alexander II of Scotland ( 1198 – 1249 ), King of Scots

* Alexander II of Imereti ( 1478, 1483 – 1510 ), King of Georgia and of Imereti

* Alexander II of Kakheti ( 1574 – 1605 ), King of Kakheti

* 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested.

The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz.