Historical Events In May - 19

0715  St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope   

1506  Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir   

1515  George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles   

1517  Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht   

1547  Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel   

1568  English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary   

1568  Mary, queen of Scots, arrested   

1571  Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines   

1585  Spain confisquates English ships   

1588  Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England   

1608  Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague   

1469  Giovanni della robbia: Ital's sculptor   

1611  Innocent xi: [benedetto odescalchi], italy, 240th pope (1676-89)   

1616  Johann jacob froberger: German singer/organist/composer   

1700  José de escandón: Spanish colonial governor   

1724  Augustus hervey: 3rd earl of bristol, british admiral and politician   

1744  Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz: Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz (d. 1818)   

1746  Johann friedrich peter: Composer   

1755  Gabriele prota: Composer   

0804  Alcuin of york: English scholar,   

0988  Dunstan[us]: English archbishop of canterbury,   

1125  Vladimir monomakh: Russian prince (b. 1053)   

1296  Celestine v: [pietro del murrone], pope (1294),   

1319  Louis d'Évreux: Son of philip iii of france (b. 1276)   

1389  Dmitri donskoi: Grand prince of muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan: Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan (b. 1464)   

1531  Jan Łaski: Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)