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]

See also

• Wedding anniversary
• Hierarchy of precious substances
• List of longest-reigning monarchs
• List of current reigning monarchs by length of reign

References

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