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A coronation is a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch and/or their consort with regal power, usually involving the placement of a crown upon their head and the presentation of other items of regalia...

Timeline of Events

800

12.25.800

Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.

1179

11.1.1179

Philip II is crowned King of France.

1249

6.13.1249

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.

1327

2.1.1327

Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

1543

9.9.1543

Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1547

7.25.1547

Henry II of France is crowned.

1594

2.19.1594

Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.

1619

11.7.1619

Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

1838

6.28.1838

Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1896

5.18.1896

Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.

1967

10.26.1967

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.