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Edward VIII

King of the United Kingdom in 1936

9 dated entries naming Edward VIII, drawn from 6 separate years between 1894 CE and 1972 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.

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19th century

  • 1894June 23 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (afterwards The Duke of Windsor) (d. 1972)source

20th century

  • 1922April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.source
  • 1922March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.source
  • 1936December 10 – Edward VIII abdication crisis: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere, Surrey in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.source
  • 1936January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.source
  • 1937June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII, in France.source
  • 1937October 11 – Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrive in Berlin to begin a 12-day tour of Nazi Germany, meeting Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.source
  • 1940August 18 – The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, is installed as Governor of the Bahamas.source
  • 1972May 28 – The Duke of Windsor, previously King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)source

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