Page 3: Historical Events In May - 01

1743  Plague in Italy on this day in history.   

1747  Measles in Thirteen Colonies on May - 01.   

1751  On May - 01 1st American cricket match is played   

1753  On this day in history publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.   

1755  On this day in history smallpox in North America   

1756  France & Austria sign alliance on May - 01.   

1757  On May - 01 austria &France divide Prussia   

1757  Austria & France divide Prussia on this day in history.   

1759  On this day in history british fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France   

1759  On this day in history jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor   

1759  On May - 01 measles in North America   

1761  Influenza in North America, West Indies on this day in history.   

1763  Smallpox in North America, present-day Pittsburgh area on May - 01.   

1764  On this day in history benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)   

1769  The birth of Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington on this day in history.   

1769  On May - 01 arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)   

1770  Forby Sutherland is laid to rest at Botany Bay. He is the first European to be buried in New South Wales on this day in history.   

1770  Russian plague of 1770-1772 in Russia killing 50,000 people on this day in history.   

1770  On this day in history smallpox in Pacific Northwest natives   

1771  George Guest, composer on this day in history.   

1772  Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1772  Measles in North America on this day in history.   

1772  On May - 01 persian Plague in Persia killing 2 million+ people   

1775  Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer on this day in history.   

1775  On May - 01 influenza in England   

1776  Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati on May - 01.   

1776  Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati on this day in history.   

1777  On May - 01 rB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London   

1778  On this day in history american Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.   

1778  On this day in history dengue fever in Spain   

1780  North American smallpox epidemic in Plains Indians on May - 01.   

1781  Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population on this day in history.   

1785  Kamehameha, the king of HawaiÊ»i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of HawaiÊ»i on May - 01.   

1786  Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) on this day in history.   

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1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.   

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.   

1118  On this day in history death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.   

1277  On this day in history stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.