Top Historical Events That Happened on May 01 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

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  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   

1807  John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army).   

1818  Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet   

1819  William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885.   

1822  John Phillips is recorded as becoming inaugural mayor of Boston.   

1822  John Phillips is recorded as becoming 1st mayor of Boston   

1825  George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)   

1829  Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice.   

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