Platinum jubilee

A platinum jubilee is a celebration held to mark an anniversary. Among monarchies, countries and organizations, it usually refers to a 70th anniversary.

Platinum jubilees Monarchs Portrait Monarch Accession day CommemorationAfonso I, Count/King of Portugal22 May 11121182John I, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (now Bavaria, Germany)23 November 13341404Henryk IX Starszy, Duke of Zagan (now Lubusz, Poland)14 March 13971467Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (now Normandy, France)16 June 13971467 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 1550Werner of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 31 October 1559 1629Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 29 January 1628 1698Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (now Bavaria, Germany) 14 August 1632 1702Louis XIV of France14 May 16431713Maeda Tsunanori, Daimyō of Kaga Domain (now Chūbu region, Japan) 30 April 16451715Victor-Maurice, Count of Revello/Marquis of Senonches (now Piedmont, Italy) 2 July 16561726Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (now Thuringia, Germany) 17 March 1723 1793Eugen Erwein the Posthumous, Count of Schönborn-Heusenstamm (now Hesse, Germany) 27 January 1727 1797Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 12 May 1738 1808Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (now Thuringia, Germany) 28 May 1758 1828Parashuramrao Shrinivas I, Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh (now Maharashtra, India) 30 August 1777 1847Itō 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 1857Bishan 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 1911 Karansinhji II Vajirajji, Thakur of Lakhtar (now Gujarat, India) 15 June 1846 1916 Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein 12 November 1858 1928Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Zamindar of Chotanagpur (now Jharkhand, India) 9 July 1869 1939 Bhagvat Singh, Maharaja of Gondal (now Gujarat, India) 14 December 1869 1939Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala (now Punjab, India)3 September 18771947 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 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms 6 February 1952 2022

Sovereign states and dependent territories Flag Sovereign state or dependent territory Independence or formation CommemorationJapan11 February 660 BC590 BCIran550 BC480 BCSan Marino3 September 301371France10 August 843 913Austria17 September 11561226Thailand12381308Ethiopia12701340Andorra8 September 12781348Switzerland1 August 12911361Monaco8 January 12971367Spain20 January 14791549Sweden6 June 15231593Russia16 January 15471617Netherlands26 July 15811651Bhutan16161686Portugal1 December 16401710Nepal25 September 17681838United States4 July 17761846United Kingdom1 January 18011871Haiti1 January 18041874Serbia15 February 18041874Ecuador10 August 18091879Colombia20 July 18101880Mexico16 September 18101880Chile18 September 18101880Paraguay14 May 18111881Venezuela5 July 18111881Luxembourg9 June 18151885Argentina9 July 18161886Greece25 March 18211891Peru28 July 18211891Costa Rica15 September 18211891El Salvador15 September 18211891Guatemala15 September 18211891Honduras15 September 18211891Nicaragua15 September 18211891Brazil7 September 18221892Bolivia6 August 18251895Uruguay25 August 18251895Belgium21 July 18311901New Zealand6 February 18401915Dominican Republic27 February 18441919Liberia26 July 18471922Denmark5 June 18491924Italy17 March 18611931Liechtenstein15 August 18661936Canada1 July 18671937Cuba10 October 18681938Germany10 May 18711941Montenegro13 July 18781948Qatar18 December 18781948Philippines12 June 18981968Guam, United States10 December 18981968Puerto Rico, United States10 December 18981968American Samoa, United States2 December 18991969Australia1 January 19011971North Macedonia2 August 19031973Panama3 November 19031973Norway7 June 19051975Bulgaria22 September 19081978South Africa31 May 19101980Mongolia29 December 19111981Taiwan1 January 19121982Albania28 November 19121982Ireland24 April 19161986United States Virgin Islands, United States31 March 19171987Finland6 December 19171987Lithuania16 February 19181988Estonia24 February 19181988Georgia26 May 19181988Armenia28 May 19181988Azerbaijan28 May 19181988Czech Republic28 October 19181988Slovakia28 October 19181988Poland11 November 19181988Latvia18 November 19181988Romania1 December 19181988Ukraine22 January 19191989Afghanistan19 August 19191989Åland, Finland7 May 19201990Turkey29 October 19231993Vatican City11 February 19291999Saudi Arabia23 September 19322002Iraq3 October 19322002Lebanon22 November 19432013Iceland17 June 19442014Belarus3 July 19442014North Korea15 August 19452015South Korea15 August 19452015Indonesia17 August 19452015Vietnam2 September 19452015Syria17 April 19462016Jordan25 May 19462016Pakistan14 August 19472017India15 August 19472017Myanmar25 January 19482018Sri Lanka4 February 19482018Faroe Islands, Denmark23 March 19482018Israel14 May 19482018China1 October 19492019Libya24 December 19512021Egypt23 July 19522022Laos22 October 19532023Cambodia9 November 19532023Morocco18 November 19552025Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia23 November 19552025Sudan1 January 19562026Tunisia20 March 19562026

Organizations Portrait Organization Inauguration CommemorationInternational Olympic Committee23 June 18941964 BBC18 October 19221992Warner Bros. Pictures4 April 19231993The Walt Disney Company16 October 19231993Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer17 April 19241994United Nations24 October 19452015Disneyland Resort17 July 19552025

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. Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, three months after the official celebrations in the Commonwealth took place.

The most recent country to celebrate a platinum jubilee is Tunisia in March 2026. The celebrations were held on 20 March.

A 75th anniversary can be referred to as a diamond jubilee occasionally, but that term is commonly used to refer to a 60th anniversary. An anniversary of 100 years is simply called a centenary.

Platinum jubilee

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