* 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.

* 30 April: " Koninginnedag " (" Queen's Day ") is a Dutch national holiday held on the birthday of former Queen Juliana.

* December 27 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.

* September 6 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.

** Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix accedes to the throne.

** Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.

* March 20 – Juliana, Queen regnant of the Netherlands ( 1948-1980 ) ( b. 1909 )

The general ill will against Struensee, which had been smouldering all through the autumn of 1771, found expression at last in a secret conspiracy against him, headed by Rantzau-Ascheburg and others, in the name of the Queen Dowager Juliana Maria, who in this way was willing to wrest power away from the king, and secure her and her son ’ s position of power for many years to come.

van Buren a name often used by his grandmother Queen Juliana.

It was the birthday of her mother, Queen Juliana.

His co-Minister was Johan Willem Beyen, an international banker, not affiliated to any political party, but protégé of Queen Juliana.

Indonesian Vice-president Mohammad Hatta | Hatta and Dutch Queen Juliana of the Netherlands | Juliana at the signing ceremony in The Hague at which the Dutch recognised Indonesian sovereignty

Queen Juliana made her a knight of the Order of Orange Nassau.

Juliana (, Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina ; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004 ) was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980.

Juliana with her mother, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands | Wilhelmina, circa 1914

Born in The Hague on 30 April 1909, the daughter of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Juliana spent her childhood at Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, and at Noordeinde Palace and Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague.

Queen Juliana in the Golden Carriage on the day of her inauguration as Queen in 1948

Indonesian Vice-president Mohammad Hatta | Hatta and Dutch Queen Juliana at the signing ceremony in Amsterdam at which the Dutch recognized Indonesian sovereignty

On 27 December 1949 at Dam Palace in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana signed the papers that recognised Indonesian sovereignty over the former Dutch colony.

Bess Truman, Harry S. Truman | President Truman, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | Prince Bernhard, and Queen Juliana in 1952

Queen Juliana began riding a bicycle for exercise and fresh air.

On the international stage, Queen Juliana was particularly interested in the problems of developing countries, the refugee problem, and had a very special interest in child welfare, particularly in the developing countries.

This allowed substantial leeway for more traditionalist clergy to retain some of the vestments which they felt were appropriate to liturgical celebration ( at least until the Queen gave further instructions under the Act of Uniformity of 1559 ).

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

He married Queen Constance of Sicily, and a death in his wife's family in 1194 gave him possession of the Kingdom of Sicily, a source of vast wealth.

He gave a funeral oration on Queen Mary.

The Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, briefly regained the castle, with the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon.

On 4 March 1590, as a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I, he preached before her an outspoken sermon and, in October that year, gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis.

Spain established a colony there, and gave the islands the official title of Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

According to writer James Stevens in his 1925 book Paul Bunyan, French Canadians gave birth to the tales during the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, when they revolted against the young English Queen .< ref >

On 19 December 1566, in Stirling Castle, Mary Queen of Scots gave a feast with 30 guests at an imagined replica of Arthur's round table during the masque-themed celebrations of the baptism of the future James VI.

An Ethiopian account ( Kebra Nagast ) maintains that the Queen of Sheba had sexual relations with King Solomon ( of which the Biblical and Quranic accounts give no hint ) and gave birth by the Mai Bella stream in the province of Hamasien, Eritrea.

While enormous sums were raised by private individuals and charities ( American Indians sent supplies, while Queen Victoria personally gave the present-day equivalent € 70, 000 ), lack of adequate action let the problem become a catastrophe.

The Queen gave her name to an era of British greatness, especially in the far-flung British Empire with which she identified.

Queen Christina was generous to the university, gave scholarships to Swedish students to study abroad and recruited foreign scholars to Uppsala chairs, among them several from the University of Strassburg, notably the philologist Johannes Schefferus ( professor skytteanus ), whose little library and museum building at S: t Eriks torg now belongs to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

Chloroform gained in popularity in England and Germany after Dr. John Snow gave Queen Victoria chloroform for the birth of her eighth child ( Prince Leopold ).

With great reluctance he gave up Red House, and in 1865 established himself under the same roof with his workshops, now relocated to Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

Fascinated by the " exotic " Caucasus, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote the romantic poem Tamara (; 1841 ) in which he utilized the old Georgian legend about a siren-like mountainous princess whom the poet gave the name of Queen Tamar.

It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset.

1 Kings 10: 13 claims " And King Solomon gave unto the Queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.

The king treated Edla and Estrid the same way and gave his son and his two daughters with Edla the same privileges as the children he had with Estrid, though it was Estrid he married and made Queen.

On 7 July the Queen gave birth to a daughter, Louise Augusta ; and a proclamation commanded that a Te Deum in honour of the event should be sung in all the churches.

The Queen gave birth to a son ( James Francis Edward ) on 10 June 1688, and a Catholic succession became more likely.