Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.

* 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

* 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

July 30: In Russia, Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly built Catherine Palace, painting ( 1905 ) by Eugene Lanceray ( in Tretyakov Gallery ).

* July 30 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

The Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo is one of the northernmost Rococo buildings

Amongst the most famous include the Catherine Palace, in Russia, the Queluz National Palace in Portugal, the Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl, the Chinese House ( Potsdam ) the Charlottenburg Palace in Germany, as well as elements of the Château de Versailles in France.

Catherine of Aragon stayed at Kennington Palace in 1501.

That evening, Catherine held a meeting at the Tuileries Palace with her Italian advisers, including Albert de Gondi, Comte de Retz.

In 1764 Catherine commissioned Yury Velten to build an extension to the east of the Winter Palace, completed in 1766.

Catherine used them to adorn the Catherine Palace and park in Tsarskoye Selo, but later they became the core of the Classical Antiquities collection of the Hermitage.

In 1885 the Arsenal collection of arms and armour, founded by Alexander I of Russia, was transferred from the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo to the Hermitage.

Particularly notable was the influx of old masters from the Catherine Palace, the Alexander Palace, the Stroganov Palace and the Yusupov Palace as well as from other palaces of Saint Petersburg and suburbs.

Edmund Tudor was born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire or at Hadham in Bedfordshire, an older son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois ( widow of King Henry V of England ).

Catherine ordered the construction of Bemposta Palace after returning to Portugal.

In 1916, Tsar Nicholas II hosts a ball at the Catherine Palace to celebrate the Romanov tricentennial.

The Amber Room ( sometimes known as the Amber Chamber ; Yantarnaya komnata ; ) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors.

In 2003, after decades of work by Russian craftsmen, financed by donations from Germany, the reconstructed Amber Room was inaugurated in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

This museum complex includes the Catherine Palace, Alexander Palace and other buildings and associated parks ; it is a major tourist attraction of the area and is included in the list of monuments protected by the UNESCO.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg () is a 1964 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.

Joachim Neander ( Neumann ) ( 165031 May 1680 ) was a German Reformed ( Calvinist ) Church teacher, theologian and hymn writer whose most famous hymn, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation () is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church and, since being translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in the 19th century, it has appeared in most major hymnals.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich () ( 8 September 1774 – 9 February 1824 ) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic.

Count Sergei Vasilievich Saltykov () ( c. 1726 – 1765 ) was a Russian officer ( chamberlain ) who became the first lover of Empress Catherine the Great after her arrival to Russia.

João Manuel, Prince of Portugal () ( 3 June 1537 – 2 January 1554 ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ), the eighth son of King John III of Portugal by his wife Catherine of Austria ( House of Habsburg ), daughter of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile.

Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov ( e. 1742 – ) () was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II.

That Man From Rio () is a 1964 adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac, the sister of Catherine Deneuve.

Belle de Jour () is a 1967 French drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli.

Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko () ( 1747 – 1799 ) was the Grand Chancellor of Russia and chief architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy after the death of Nikita Panin.

Catherine Lim () is a best-selling Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture.

The Monastery of Saint Catherine () is a monastery of nuns of the Domincan Second Order, located in Arequipa, Peru.

Catherine Michelle of Spain () ( 10 October 1567 – 6 November 1597 ) was the youngest surviving daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois ; she was also the sister of Isabella Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov () ( – ) was regarded as the most important Russian poet by Catherine the Great and her contemporaries.

Lake St. Catherine () is a brackish-water lake that is located in eastern Orleans Parish, within the city limits of New Orleans, between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in Louisiana.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Catherine was educated by a tutor, Alessandro Geraldini, who was a clerk in Holy Orders.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

To settle the matter, it was agreed that Catherine would marry Henry VII's second son, Henry, Duke of York, who was five years younger than she was.

Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.