Historical Events In May - 15

1492 Cheese & Bread rebellion German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse

1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war

1536 Anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell

1572 Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes

1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1610 Louis XIII appointed King of France

1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king

1618 Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law

1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vöcklamarkt Upper-Austria

1648 Treaty of Münster Spain & Netherlands ratified

1665 Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme

1672 The first copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

1702 War of Spanish Succession, first American conflict between England & France

1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's first machine gun

1730 Robert Walpole becomes England first prime minister (was chief minister)

1796 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

1796 French troops occupy Milan

1800 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt

1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles

1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded

1851 Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned

1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London

1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling) VA

1862 Battle of Princeton WV

1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London

1862 Department of Agriculture created

1862 General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" - women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers

1864 Battle of New Market VA

1864 Battle of Resaca GA (3rd day)

1864 Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

1868 Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls

1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms

1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

1883 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany

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