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Tuesday, 18 August 2026
May 05 Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya) 
May 05 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA
May 06 Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44.
May 08 Valley Campaign Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA.
May 09 Battle of Farmington MS
May 09 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport RI
May 10 Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)
May 11 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk VA.
May 11 CSS Virginia blown up by Confederates to prevent capture
May 12 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA.
May 12 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
May 14 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
May 14 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph.
May 15 -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV.
May 15 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde).
May 15 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling) VA
May 15 Battle of Princeton WV
May 15 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London.
May 15 Department of Agriculture created
May 15 General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" - women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers
May 16 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile.
May 16 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds inaugural automobile
May 16 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
May 17 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
May 18 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
May 18 William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48.
May 19 Homestead Act is recorded as becoming law provides cheap land for settlement of West
May 20 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of the West
May 20 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
May 22 August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor.
May 23 Battle at Front Royal VA.
May 23 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia.
May 23 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal VA.
May 23 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99.
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