Page 3: Historical Events In May - 01

1757  Austria and France divide Prussia.   

1759  British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France.   

1759  Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor.   

1759  Measles in North America   

1761  Influenza in North America, West Indies.   

1763  Smallpox in North America, present-day Pittsburgh area   

1764  Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol).   

1769  Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington is born   

1769  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)   

1770  Forby Sutherland is laid to rest at Botany Bay. He is the inaugural European to be buried in New South Wales.   

1770  Russian plague of 1770-1772 in Russia killing 50000 people   

1770  Smallpox in Pacific Northwest natives   

1771  George Guest, composer   

1772  Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52   

1772  Measles in North America.   

1772  Persian Plague in Persia killing 2 million+ people   

1775  Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer   

1775  Influenza in England.   

1776  Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati   

1776  Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati.   

1777  RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London.   

1778  American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.   

1778  Dengue fever in Spain   

1780  North American smallpox epidemic in Plains Indians   

1781  Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population.   

1785  Kamehameha, the king of HawaiÊ»i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of HawaiÊ»i   

1786  Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)   

1786  Wolfgang Mozart premieres his opera, The Marriage of Figaro, in Vienna.   

1788  Smallpox in Pueblo Indians   

1788  Measles in United States   

1789  Smallpox in New South Wales, Australia.   

1793  Influenza and epidemic typhus in United States   

1793  Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, resurgences in United States.   

1800  Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874   

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1218  John i: Count of hainaut   

1218  Rudolph i of germany: Emperor of the holy roman empire   

1238  Magnus vi lagabuter: King of norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund fitzalan: 9th earl of arundel, english politician   

1493  Phillippus paracelsus: Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  Franciscus junius: [francois du jon], french/neth calvinist theologist   

1567  Michiel jansz van mierevelt: Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van kinschot: Dutch treasurer   

0408  Arcadius: Eastern roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  Edith of scotland: First wife of henry i of england (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Dermot macmurrough: Last irish king of leinster,   

1240  Jacques de vitry: Cardinal-bishop of frascati and dean of the sacred college of cardinals   

1277  Stefanus iv uros i de great: King of serbia (1243-76),   

1308  Albrecht i van habsburg: German king (1298-1308), murdered   

1447  Louis vii: Duke of baveria (1413-43),   

1456  Hugues de lannoy: Flemish viceroy of holland/zealand,