Platinum jubilee

For the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, see Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

A platinum jubilee is a celebration held to mark an anniversary. Among monarchies, it usually refers to a 70th anniversary.[1]

Portrait Monarch Accession day Commemoration
Henryk IX Starszy, Duke of Zagan (now Lubusz, Poland) 14 March 1397 1467
Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (now Normandy, France) 16 June 1397 1467
Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 12 August 1429 1499
John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (now Saarland, Germany) 19 October 1472 1542
William IV, Princely count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (now Thuringia, Germany) 26 May 1480 1550
Werner of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 31 October 1559 1629
Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 29 January 1628 1698
Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (now Bavaria, Germany) 14 August 1632 1703
Louis XIV of France 14 May 1643 1713
Maeda Tsunanori, Daimyō of Kaga Domain (now Chūbu region, Japan) 30 April 1645 1715
Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (now Thuringia, Germany) 17 March 1723 1793
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 12 May 1738 1808
Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (now Thuringia, Germany) 28 May 1758 1828
Parashuramrao Shrinivas I, Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh (now Maharashtra, India) 30 August 1777 1847
Itō Nagatomo, Daimyō of Okada Domain (now Chūgoku region, Japan) 17 July 1778 1848
George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (now Lower Saxony, Germany) 13 February 1787 1857
Bishan Chandra Jenamuni, Raja of Rairakhol (now Odisha, India) 13 March 1825 1895
Mudhoji IV Rao Naik Nimbalkar, Raja of Phaltan (now Maharashtra, India) 7 December 1841 1912
Karansinhji II Vajirajji, Thakur of Lakhtar (now Gujarat, India) 15 June 1846 1916
Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein 12 November 1858 1928
Bhagvat Singh, Maharaja of Gondal (now Gujarat, India) 14 December 1869 1940
Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Zamindar of Chotanagpur (now Jharkhand, India) July 1869 1939
Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala (now Punjab, India 3 September 1877 1947
Sobhuza II of Swaziland (now Eswatini) 10 December 1899 1969
Idris ibni Muhammad al-Qadri, Tunku Besar of Tampin 31 May 1929 1999
Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand 9 June 1946 2016[2]
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms 6 February 1952 2022

The most recent monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee is Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms in June 2022. The celebrations were delayed from the actual February anniversary and the ceremony occurred on a four-day Bank Holiday on 2 June 2022, as was announced earlier.[3] Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, three months after the official celebrations in the Commonwealth took place.

A 75th anniversary can be referred to as a diamond jubilee occasionally,[4][5][6][7][8] but that term is commonly used to refer to a 60th anniversary.[9] An anniversary of 100 years is simply called a centenary.[10]

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