39 events with tag "marriage"
1074 BC
ID: 4632
Ashur-bel-kala makes peace with Babylon through dynastic marriage - temporary stabilization
ID: 4632
874 BC
ID: 2755
Ahab marries Jezebel of Tyre - brings Baal worship to Israel, confrontation with Yahweh prophets begins
ID: 2755
305 BC
ID: 3674
Treaty with Seleucus - Chandragupta gains Afghanistan and Baluchistan, gives 500 war elephants, marries Seleucid princess
ID: 3674
18 BC
ID: 2722
Julian marriage laws - attempts to restore traditional morality, penalties for adultery, rewards for having children
ID: 2722
9
ID: 2733
Lex Papia Poppaea - strengthens marriage laws, ironic as both consuls proposing it are unmarried
ID: 2733
493
ID: 2818
Clovis marries Clotilde - Burgundian Catholic princess, begins influencing him toward Catholicism rather than Arianism
ID: 2818
567
ID: 2838
Sigebert marries Brunhilda - Visigothic princess, beautiful and educated, rivalry with Fredegund begins
ID: 2838
568
ID: 2839
Chilperic murders Galswintha - kills Brunhilda's sister to marry servant Fredegund, begins decades of vengeance
ID: 2839
770
ID: 2887
Charlemagne marries Lombard princess - Desiderata, daughter of King Desiderius, political alliance angers Pope
ID: 2887
802
ID: 2912
Byzantine negotiations - Empress Irene proposes marriage to unite empires, she's deposed before completion
ID: 2912
819
ID: 2929
Louis marries Judith of Bavaria - second marriage produces Charles the Bald (823), disrupts succession plans
ID: 2929
998
ID: 5178
Robert II excommunicated for marrying cousin Bertha of Burgundy - Pope Gregory V enforces Church marriage laws
ID: 5178
1000
ID: 5102
Doge Pietro II Orseolo conquers Dalmatia - establishes Venice's Adriatic empire, begins annual 'Marriage of the Sea' ceremony
ID: 5102
1002
ID: 5876
April 1002
Aethelred marries Emma of Normandy - alliance to prevent Vikings using Norman ports, Emma becomes queen, takes English name Aelfgifu
ID: 5876
1017
ID: 5881
July 1017
Emma marries Cnut the conqueror - extraordinary political marriage, former enemy becomes husband, secures her position
ID: 5881
1053
ID: 3738
William marries Matilda of Flanders - strategic marriage despite papal opposition over consanguinity
ID: 3738
1100
ID: 2597
November 11, 1100
Henry I marries Matilda of Scotland - descendant of Anglo-Saxon kings, unites Norman and Saxon royal lines
ID: 2597
1121
ID: 2601
Henry I remarries - marries Adeliza of Louvain hoping for male heir, but no children result
ID: 2601
1128
ID: 2603
Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet - creates Angevin claim to English throne, barons unhappy with match
ID: 2603
1128
ID: 2370
June 17, 1128
Marriage of Geoffrey Plantagenet to Empress Matilda - union creates Angevin claim to English throne, planta genista (broom plant) badge gives dynasty its name
ID: 2370
1137
ID: 5195
July 25, 1137
Louis VII marries Eleanor of Aquitaine - brings vast duchy to French crown, doubles royal domain
ID: 5195
1152
ID: 191
Eleanor of Aquitaine divorces Louis VII of France, marries Henry II of England - shifts balance of power
ID: 191
1236
ID: 2397
January 14, 1236
Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence - brings more foreign relatives to court, increasing baronial resentment
ID: 2397
1377
ID: 4795
Hawkwood marries Donnina Visconti - illegitimate daughter of Bernabo, cements Milan alliance
ID: 4795
1396
ID: 2456
Twenty-eight year truce with France - Richard II marries 6-year-old Isabella of Valois for peace
ID: 2456
1420
ID: 2479
May 21, 1420
Treaty of Troyes - Henry V recognized as heir to France, marries Catherine of Valois, disinherits Dauphin
ID: 2479
1445
ID: 2486
April 23, 1445
Henry VI marries Margaret of Anjou - strong-willed queen will dominate weak king, becomes partisan leader
ID: 2486
1464
ID: 2499
May 1, 1464
Edward IV secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville - widow commoner instead of foreign princess, Warwick furious
ID: 2499
1469
ID: 81
Marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand unites Castile and Aragon
ID: 81
1533
ID: 5156
Catherine de' Medici marries future Henry II of France - will become Queen, mother of three French kings
ID: 5156
1589
ID: 3513
October 1589
James VI marries Anne of Denmark - Storm voyage to Denmark - Admiral's log: 'Storms of such supernatural fury' - James exposed to continental demonology and witch trials
ID: 3513
1600
ID: 5172
October 6, 1600
Marie de' Medici marries Henry IV of France - second Medici queen of France, mother of Louis XIII
ID: 5172
1609
ID: 3451
St. Frances of Rome canonized - model for married sanctity - Her life proves holiness exists in all states against Protestant rejection of saints
ID: 3451
1613
ID: 3458
February 14, 1613
Frederick V marries Elizabeth Stuart - Elaborate festivities with hermetic symbolism - James gives daughter away but worried about Frederick's ambitions
ID: 3458
1615
ID: 5695
Chocolate reaches France via Spanish princess marriage to Louis XIII - becomes aristocratic fashion
ID: 5695
1862
ID: 935
Marx to Lafargue: If I had to live my life over again, I would not marry
ID: 935
1930
ID: 1364
December 31, 1930
Pope Pius XI issues 'Casti Connubii' on Christian marriage - 'The love of husband and wife... partakes of the eternal divine love'
ID: 1364
1938
ID: 1469
September 1938
Harry Hay marries Anita (Jewish) in Unitarian ceremony omitting 'God stuff'
ID: 1469
2015
ID: 3279
June 2015
Obama White House illuminated in LGBTQ rainbow colors for Obergefell decision redefining marriage
ID: 3279