Crown prince

male heir apparent to a throne

11 dated entries naming Crown prince, drawn from 11 separate years between 825 BCE and 1966 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Crown Prince, Crown Princess in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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9th century BC

825 BCE825 BC—Takelot II, king of Egypt, dies. Crown Prince Osorkon III and Shoshenq III, sons of Takelot, battle for the throne.source

6th century

531May 30 – Xiao Tong, prince of the Liang Dynasty (born 501)source

17th century

1675Kangxi's son Yunreng named Crown Princesource

18th century

1776October 7 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.source

19th century

1810August 21 – Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden, by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.source
1814May 17 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway, by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.source
1860July 11 – Mutsuhito (the future Emperor Meiji) becomes Crown Prince of Japan.source

20th century

1916November 2 – Prince Hirohito is formally proclaimed Crown Prince and heir apparent.source
1922November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.source
1960December 13 – 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt: While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Kebur Zabagna (Imperial Bodyguard) leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen Taffari, is the new emperor.source
1966March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.source