Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

Most of her life, she was known as Maria Feodorovna (), the name which she took when she converted to Orthodoxy immediately before her 1866 marriage to the future Emperor Alexander III.

" 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.

She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia.

Maria Feodorovna was pretty and popular.

Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mistress of Langinkoski retreat, was also otherwise a known friend of Finland.

On 26 September 2006, a statue of Maria Feodorovna was unveiled near her favourite Cottage Palace in Peterhof.

In spite of depictions in various dramatizaions, Maria Feodorovna never met Anna Anderson, the impostor who falsely claimed to be her murdered granddaughter Anastasia.

Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna and their five children.

Tsar Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna had four sons and two daughters:

* 1828 – Maria Feodorovna ( Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia ( b. 1759 )

* 1759 – Maria Feodorovna ( Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), Russian empress ( d. 1828 )

Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Maria Fiodorovna in a Head-Dress Decorated with Pearls by Ivan Kramskoi ( 1880s ) Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Other members of the Imperial Family present included the descendants of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna including Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia the senior direct male descendant.

** Shooting of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Nicholas was born in Gatchina to Emperor Paul I and Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Left to right: Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Dagmar, Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick, Prince Valdemar of Denmark | Valdemar, Christian IX of Denmark | Christian IX, Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise, Princess Thyra of Denmark | Thyra, George I of Greece | George and Alexandra

Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Maria Fiodorovna by Heinrich von Angeli ( 1874 )< BR /> Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Maria Feodorovna ( Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ) | Maria Feodorovna, portrait by Alexander Roslin

The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the Universal Judgement for the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, completed by Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini when Baccio became a Dominican friar on July 26, 1500.

In Vienna on 26 September 1819 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 7 October 1819 ( in person ), Frederick Augustus married firstly with the Archduchess Maria Caroline of Austria ( Maria Karoline Ferdinande Theresia Josephine Demetria ), daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

The New York City Center birthday celebration and benefit concert on April 26, 2010 featured ( in order of appearance ): Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Joanna Gleason, Maria Friedman, Mark Jacoby, Len Cariou, B. D.

* December 26 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan ( assassinated ) ( b. 1444 )

* June 26 – Battle of Casalecchio: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna and Florence, but he dies from a fever later this year and is succeeded by his son Gian Maria Visconti.

* January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon ; he dies only two months later.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

* May 26 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria ( b. 1636 )

# Joseph Maria Ludwig Johann Nepomuck Aloys Gonzaga Franz Xavier Januar Anton de Padua Polycarp ( 26 January 1754-25 March 1763 ) died in infancy.

# Maria Amalia of Saxony ( 26 September 1757-20 April 1831 ) married Karl II August of Zweibrücken and had issue.

The French in the meantime had stormed Prague on 26 November 1741, Francis Stephen, husband of Maria Theresa, who commanded the Austrians in Bohemia, moving too slowly to save the fortress.

The canonical Shakespearean version was definitely performed at court before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria on 26 November 1633, where it was described as being " liked ".

Victor Amadeus III ( Vittorio Amadeo Maria ; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796 ) was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death.

Ferdinand ( 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948 ), born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz ( prince regnant, 1887 – 1908 ) and later as tsar ( 1908 – 1918 ).

* 1851: Maria wrecked in on rocks at Cape Terawhiti, 26 people die.

Marie de Médicis () ( 26 April 1575 – 4 July 1642 ), Italian Maria de ' Medici, () was Queen consort of France, as the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon.

** Berthold Franz Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( b. Riedlingen, 26 May 1963 ), married to María Jesus Alejandra Carabias ( b. 17 July 1961 ), and had one son:

* Elisabeth Caroline Margarete Maria Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg ( b. 13 June 1939 ), married to Piero Roberti ( b. 26 December 1935 )

Samaranch married Maria Teresa Salisachs Rowe, known as " Bibí " ( 26 December 193116 September 2000 ), on 1 December 1955.

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen ( 26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968 ), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

On November 16, 2008, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador Maria Isabel Salvador met her counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, with a close relationship in oil and defence between these geographically distant countries high on the agenda.

On-site work began in January 1876 and was complete by the end of October 1877: the bridge was ceremonially opened by King Luis I and Queen Maria Pia, after whom the bridge was named, on 4 November.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

# Anna Maria ( 3 February 1567 – 4 November 1618 ), married in 1581 to Duke Barnim X of Pomerania

* Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ).

# Jane Maria Abbott ( born November 25, 1833 )

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

The family moved to Rome in the 18th century, where Duke Domenico ( November 23, 1790 – April 28, 1874 ), married Maria Luisa Torlonia in 1823.

* November – Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of the Imperial House of Mexico ( b. 1872 )

* November 29 – The Portuguese Queen Maria I and the Court embark at Lisbon bound for Brazil.

* November 6 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, First Lady of California

* November 17 – Aristides Maria Pereira, President of Cape Verde ( d. 2011 )

* November 23 – Maria di Gerlando, American operatic soprano ( d. 2010 )

* November 15 – Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro.

* November 15 – Maria II of Portugal ( b. 1819 )

* November 7 – Maria Theresia of Tuscany, Queen of Saxony ( b. 1767 )

* November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress ( b. 1752 )

* November 25 – Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England ( d. 1669 )

* November 13 – Italian artist Guido Reni's famous Pietà, commissioned by the Senate of Bologna, is placed on the greater altar of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà.

* November 29 – Maria Theresa of Austria dies and her Habsburg dominions pass to her ambitious son, Joseph II, who has already been Holy Roman Emperor since 1765.

* November 29 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria ( b. 1717 )

* November 17 – Maria Antonietta of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia ( d. 1785 )