1264 Baron's War fought in England

1264 Battle at Lewes Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III

1501 Lisbon Portugal, explorer Gaspar Corte Réal leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again.

1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy

1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten

1590 Battle at Ivry French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1607 First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA

1633 Olivier Le Jeune d1654 baptized into the Roman Catholic faith; a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, he is the first recorded black in Canada.

1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon

1643 Louis XIV becomes King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII

1664 Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1702 England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain

1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw

1747 In the Atlantic New France Governor Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 captured by the British at sea and taken to England.

1760 French fleet arrives in the St. Lawrence from France, but retreats to the Bay of Chaleur when it learns of the fall of Quebec.

1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution

1796 First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar

1804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast

1804 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory

1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase territory begins its ascent of the Missouri River May 14 seeking to determine whether the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are linked by a river system

1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

1842 The first edition of London Illustrated News

1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

1853 Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk

1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph

1863 Battle of Jackson MS

1864 Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)

1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montréal) in football, 3-0

1878 Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)

1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US

1892 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem

1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10ºF - Climax CO)

1897 Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

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