Thanking Yvonne Strong Royal Events Britain took the Dutch settlement of Trincomalee (Ceylon) on 31 August 1795 to prevent its falling to the French Ottoman Sultan Murad V was deposed on 31 August 1876 after a 4-month reign and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II The Anglo-Russian Entente, precursor to the Triple Entente between Britain, Russia, and France, was signed on 31 August 1907 Royal Births Roman Emperor Caligula was born on 31 August AD12 Roman Emperor Commodus was born on 31 August 161 Jahangir, Emperor of India, was born on 31 August 1569 Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was born on 31 August 1602 Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, was born on 31 August 1652 Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan and grandfather of Emperor Akihito, was born on 31 August 1879 Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands was born on 31 August 1880 Queen Rania of Jordan, consort of Abdullah II, was born on 31 August 1970 Royal Deaths Byzantine Empress Theodora died on 31 August 1056 and was succeeded by Michael VI Bringas Leofric, Earl of Mercia, husband of Lady Godiva, died on 31 August (or 30 September) 1057 Sancho III (the Desired) of Castile died on 31 August 1158, a year after his accession, and was succeeded by his son Alfonso VIII Emperor Go-Horikawa, 86th Emperor of Japan, died on 31 August 1234, aged only 22 Henry V died on 31 August 1422, leaving a 9-month-old son, Henry VI, as heir to England and to his claim to France Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, died on 31 August 1678 and was succeeded by his half-brother Ernst Louis Louis I of Spain died on 31 August 1724 and was succeeded by his father Philip V, who had abdicated in his favour a few months earlier Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris on 31 August 1997
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