Historical Events In May - 21
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
0143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed 

0685 Battle at Nechtansmere Picten beat Northumbrians. 

0685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians 

0878 Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily 

0879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state. 

0987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies. 

0996 Otto the Great's Saxon grandson, now 16, is crowned Otto III 2005at Rome. 

0996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor. 

0996 Otto the Great's Saxon grandson, now 16, is crowned Otto III May 21 at Rome. 

1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency. 

1216 French crown prince Louis enters England 

1254 Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 

1260 Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao 

1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 

1471 King Edwards IV enters London. 

1471 Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker 

1481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies. 

1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena. 

1512 Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena. 

1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80. 

1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau TC evangelical theology. 

1526 -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology. 

1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology 

1527 King Philip II of Spain is born 

1527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) and Portugal (1580-98). 

1542 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. 

1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R 

1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley 

1602 Martha's Vineyard inaugural sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) 

1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold). 

1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer. 

1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 

1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 

1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged. 

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