Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror ; Queen Marie Antoinette, Barnave, Bailly, Brissot and other leading Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( despite his vote for the death of the King ), Madame Roland and many others were executed by guillotine.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

By this treaty, they accepted Philippe of Anjou as King of Spain, but allotted Austria the Spanish territories in Italy and the Spanish Netherlands.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

Philippe Allonneau the French representative even succeeded in being recognized as King of Espiritu Santo by the island's tribal chiefs.

For the next seven years, during the Régence of Philippe d ' Orléans, the royal court of the young King Louis XV was the first in Paris, while the Regent governed from his Parisian residence, the Palais-Royal.

* February 24 – Louis Philippe, King of the French, abdicated after days of revolution in France.

* September 21 – Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, younger brother of King Louis XIV of France ( d. 1701 )

* August 9 – France: Louis Philippe becomes King of the French.

* October 6 – Louis Philippe, King of the French ( d. 1850 )

Furthermore, the display of wealth by the upper ranks of the church, which contrasted with the common expectation of poverty and strict adherence to principles, was used by the Papacy's enemies in raising charges against the popes: King Philippe of France employed the strategy, as did Emperor Louis IV.

When Philippe, grandson of Louis XIV, became King of Spain as Philip V, he gave up his French titles.

Philippa of Hainault, or, Philippe ( d ' Avesnes ) de Hainaut ( 24 June 1314 – 15 August 1369 ) was the Queen consort of King Edward III of England.

That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film.

He displayed this figure before King Louis Philippe and eventually sold it to P. T. Barnum.

Even King Louis Philippe rented out the room for a private performance.

His grandfather, Louis Le Grand Dauphin, had three sons with his wife Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria: Louis, Duke of Burgundy ; Philippe, Duke of Anjou ( who became King of Spain ); and Charles, Duke of Berry.

King Leopold I, Queen Louise-Marie, Crown Prince Leopold, Prince Philippe, Princess Marie-Charlotte

He was the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch, Leopold I, and his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France.

On February 23, King Louis Philippe of France was forced to flee Paris, and a republic was proclaimed.

Leopold III ( born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel ( French ) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( Dutch ) or Leopold Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( German ); 3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

Prince Philippe was the third ( second surviving ) son of Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, and his wife, Marie-Louise of France, and the younger brother of King Leopold II of Belgium.

Henri's theoretical reign was ended on 9 August when the Chamber of Deputies declared Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, who was currently ruling France as regent, King of the French, thus ushering in the July Monarchy.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

It is a mournful lament from King David's perspective.

* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

* 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

In the Prose Edda, Gylfi, King of Sweden before the arrival of the Æsir under Odin, travels to Asgard, questions the three officials shown in the illumination concerning the Æsir, and is beguiled.

* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.