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May 10 in history

270 sourced entries recorded on May 10, from 28 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 28 BCEThe earliest dated record of a sunspot by Chinese astronomers.source
  • 678Tōchi is buried at a place which could be Akō (Hyōgo Prefecture). Tenmu is graciously pleased to raise lament for her.source
  • 1225Gerold of Lausanne, French bishop of Valence, becomes the new Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (until 1239).source
  • 1241Battle of Cameirge in Ulster: The Milesian Irish septs of the Ó Dónaills from Donegal, the Ó Néills from Armagh and the Ó Dochartaighs of Connacht defeat the last Tuatha Dé Danann sept, the Meic Lochlainn of Tír Eoghain and Inishowen under Domhnall mac Muirchertaigh Mac Lochlainn. From now on the Kings of Tír Eoghain will all be of the Ó Néill dynasty, Brian Ua Néill becoming sole ruler.source
  • 1291Edward I meets the claimants for the Scottish crown at Norham Castle and informs them that he will judge the various claims to the throne, but they must acknowledge him as overlord of Scotland and, to ensure peace, surrender the royal castles of the kingdom into his keeping.source
  • 1300A session of the Parliament of Scotland is held at Rutherglen. Sir Ingram de Umfraville replaces Sir Robert the Bruce as one of the three members of the Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland, a group of regents who govern Scotland during the "Second Interregnum", a period when King Edward I of England is threatening to annex Scotland. Umfraville joins Baron John Comyn III of Badenoch and Bishop William de Lamberton, but the three step down the following year to make way for a single Guardian, John de Soules. Robert the Bruce later becomes King of Scotland in 1306.source
  • 1307Battle of Loudoun Hill: Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the English army (some 3,000 men) at Loudoun Hill. During the battle, a frontal charge by the English knights led by Aymer de Valence is halted by Robert's spearmen militia, who effectively slaughtered them as they are on marshy ground. Aymer manages to escape the carnage and flees to the safety of Bothwell Castle. The battle marks the turning point in Robert's struggle to reclaim the independence of Scotland.source
  • 1307Battle of Loudoun Hillsource
  • 1318Battle of Dysert O'Dea: An Irish confederation defeats the Hiberno-Normans under Richard de Clare. During the battle, some 500 men are killed, along with 80 English nobles.source
  • 1318Battle of Dysert O'Dea: The Hiberno-Norman Richard de Clare is defeated and killed by Conor O'Dea in alliance with O'Briens, MacNamaras and Ó hEithirs.source
  • 1325Pope John XXII issues a papal bull to King Robert of Naples and to Charles, Duke of Calabria demanding the imprisonment of the Fraticelli in Naples and their leader, Fra Enrico da Ceva. The demand, and several subsequent admonitions, is ignored by Robert and Charles.source
  • 1372Owain Lawgoch makes a second attempt to take the throne of Wales, sailing with French support from Harfleur, and issues a declaration of war against England for "having treacherously and covetously... slain my ancestors, kings of Wales," as well as having "by force and power appropriated" the country and submitted its people to divers services, the which country is, and should be, mine by right of succession, by kindred, by heritage, and by right of descent from my ancestors the kings of that country." After attacking the island of Guernsey, Lawgoch will abandon the invasion in order to fight for France at La Rochelle.source
  • 1398Stephen Ostoja is enthroned as the new King of Bosnia after Queen Helen is deposed.source
  • 1399The Treaty of Tarbes is signed between representatives of King Charles VI of France and Archambaud of Grailly, who has been an ally of the French monarch's enemy, King Richard II of England. Under the treaty, de Grailly is made Count of Foix in southern France, in return for breaking his alliance with King Richard. Two of the Count of Foix's sons are sent as hostages to the Royal Court of France in order to secure the terms of the agreement.source
  • 1409The Council of Pisa votes on the matter of whether to remove the warring popes Gregory XII and Benedict XIII. All but two of the clerics present vote for them to be deposed, with the exception of Cardinal Gui de Maillesec and Cardinal Niccolò Brancaccio, who ask for more time to consider.source
  • 1419In Italy's Republic of Florence, the republic is elevated to the level of an archdioese by Pope Martin V, who spent 18 months in Florence after being elected by the Council of Constance. In recognition of the hospitality accorded to him, Pope Martin names Bishop Amerigo Corsini to be the first Archbishop of Florence.source
  • 1422The last French defenders of the siege of Meaux surrender their fortress at Le Marche when the starving members of the garrison threaten to rebel.source
  • 1422The English army under Henry V wins the siege of Meaux.source
  • 1475The War of the Castilian Succession begins as Portugal's army invades the Spanish kingdom of Castile and León with King Afonso of Portugal in command. The troops advance to the town of Plasencia, where King Afonso's fiancée Juana la Beltraneja (who claims to be the daughter of the late King Enrique IV of Castile) lives.source
  • 1482King Edward IV of England summons fighting men to participate in an invasion of Scotland with the goal of deposing King James III and installing a puppet monarch who will bring Scotland under English control.source
  • 1497Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World. The account of a voyage (lasting until October 15, 1498) is doubted because the only mention of it is in a letter written six years later, and the course described would have traveled across the land of Mexico and into the Pacific Ocean.source
  • 1501The formal coronation of King Shwenankyawshin of Burma takes place at his capital in Inwa in the Mandalay Region on the 9th waning of Kason, 863 ME.source
  • 1503Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands, which he names Las Tortugas, after the numerous sea turtles there.source
  • 1517The coronation of Queen Consort Claude of France, wife of King Francis I, takes place at the Basilica of St Denis with Cardinal Philippe de Luxembourg performing the ceremony.source
  • 1522Pope Adrian VI, at the request of Spanish Emperor Carlos V, promulgates the papal bull Exponi nobis, allowing members of mendicant orders in the New World to exercise "almost all episcopal authority" when the closest Roman Catholic diocesan bishop is more than two days of travel away.source
  • 1529The Ottoman army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople, to invade Hungary once again.source
  • 1534Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland, while searching for the Northwest Passage.source
  • 1535In Amsterdam, a small troop of Anabaptists, led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall, in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels. In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands.source
  • 1538In India Mahmud Khan, 11-year-old the nephew of the late Sultan Bahadur Shah, is enthroned as Mahmud Shah III, Sultan of Gujarat.source
  • 1612Prince Khurram, the 20-year-old son of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, marries 19-year-old Arjumand Banu Begum at a ceremony in Delhi. In 1628, Khurram becomes the Emperor Shah Jahan with Arjumand Begum as his chief consort Mumtaz Mahal. Arjumand dies in 1631 and Khurram later commissions and builds the Taj Mahal in her memory.source
  • 1620An expedition led by Admiral Ove Gjedde arrives in Ceylonsource
  • 1627The Kingdom of England reaches an agreement with Sidi Al-Ayyashi, a Moroccan Mujahidin leader to obtain his help in releasing English captives seized by Barbary corsairs.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War: After a two-month siege, an Imperial army under the command of Tilly storms the German city of Magdeburg and brutally sacks it, massacring over 20,000 inhabitants. Shocked by the massacre, many Protestant states in the Holy Roman Empire decide to ally with Sweden its ongoing invasion.source
  • 1642In a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to King Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a "Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics", hence the Irish rebels of 1641 become known as Confederate Ireland.source
  • 1642in a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a "Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics", hence the rebels become known as Confederate Ireland.source
  • 1650Battle of Macroom: Irish force defeated by English Parliamentarians.source
  • 1650Commonwealth (Adultery) Act (1650) imposes the death penalty for incest, and for adultery, that is defined as sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her husband. Both partners would be liable for death sentence in such a case, although the courts are reluctant to impose the ultimate penalty. If a man (married or unmarried) has sex with an unmarried woman (including a widow), that would be fornication, punishable only by three months for first offenders, applicable to both partners. In the history of adultery in English law, this represents the only time since the twelfth century when adultery has been outlawed in secular statute law.source
  • 1655May 10–27 – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces of the English Protectorate led by William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of Jamaica from Spain.source
  • 1667A second Conventicle Act, preventing groups of more than five non-followers of the Church of England from assembling, comes into effect with increased incentives for the authorities to prosecute.source
  • 1684Titus Oates arrested for perjury.source
  • 1688King Narai of Ayutthaya nominates Princess Sudawadi as his successor, with Constantine Phaulkon, Mom Pi and Phetracha acting as joint regents.source
  • 1695Alan Brodrick is appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland; he is a supporter of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics.source
  • 1699Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.source
  • 1699Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by an Act of Parliament, with the provision "that after the tenth of May, 1699, Billingsgate Market should be, every day in the week except Sunday, a free and open market for all sorts of fish, and that it should be lawful for any person to buy or sell any sort of fish without disturbance."source
  • 1718the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Emly is united with the Archbishopric of Cashel.source
  • 1719Capture of Eilean Donan Castle: A British naval force capture Eilean Donan from occupying Spanish troops.source
  • 1731The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy is established by order of the Empress Anna of Russia, who directs Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev to assume command over the new fleet and to develop Okhotsk as a major port.source
  • 1731Pacific Fleet is established as part of the Imperial Russian Navysource
  • 1732Representatives of the heirs of William Penn and of Lord Baltimore, the respective owners of most of the land in the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Maryland set out the boundary between the two future U.S. states after a survey determines that Philadelphia is located on the Maryland side of the border. The dispute eventually leads to a lawsuit and the eventual survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to determine the Mason–Dixon line.source
  • 1735Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.source
  • 1735Kongliga Ritarakademien is created: it is re-founded as the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1773.source
  • 1743In New France, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.source
  • 1743In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.source
  • 1748As word arrives that the Dutch Republic has agreed to return control of Maastricht to France, the French Army's leader of the siege, Count Löwendal, marches through the opened city gates with his troops and accepts its surrender.source
  • 1752At Marly-la-Ville in France, physicist Thomas-François Dalibard successfully conducts the kite experiment proposed by Benjamin Franklin in the 1750 book Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity.source
  • 1759The Macedonian Hussar Regiment is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the Seven Years' War.source
  • 1767Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, acting on behalf of Great Britain, meets with representatives of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy at German Flatts, New York, opening negotiations on the boundary between the New York colony and the Native Americans, eventually concluded by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix.source
  • 1768Massacre of St George's Fields: John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton, severely criticising King George III. This action provokes protesters to riot; in the Southwark district of London, troops fire on the mob, killing seven.source
  • 1768John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticising King George III. This action provokes protesters to riot; in Southwark, troops fire on the mob, killing seven, the Massacre of St George's Fields.source
  • 1774Louis XVI becomes King of France, following the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.source
  • 1775The Second Continental Congress meets, elects John Hancock president, raises the Continental Army under George Washington as commander and authorizes the colonies to adopt their own constitutions.source
  • 1775Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, leading the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, capture Fort Ticonderoga.source
  • 1775American Revolution: Capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Patriot forces.source
  • 1783John Moore enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1785An unmanned hot air balloon released as part of a bet crashes in Tullamore, Ireland, causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses, making it the world's first aviation disaster (by 36 days). The town’s coat of arms now represents a phoenix emerging from the ashes.source
  • 1785a hot air balloon collides with a chimney in Tullamore, setting light to around 100 houses in the town centre.source
  • 1788The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern), Sweden's national drama company, is founded.source
  • 1792Union Bank is founded in Boston. In 1925 it merges with State Street Trust Company, now known as the State Street Corporationsource
  • 1796War of the First Coalition – Battle of Lodi: General Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrian rearguard, in forcing a crossing of the bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men, 14 guns, and 30 ammunition wagons.source
  • 1796Persian Expedition of 1796: Russian troops storm Derbent.source
  • 1797The first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States, is commissioned.source
  • 1801The pascha of Tripoli declares war on the United States, by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.source
  • 1804William Pitt the Younger begins his second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1804William Pitt the Younger begins his second premiership as Prime Minister.source
  • 1809Gustav IV Adolf is officially deposed from the Swedish throne, by the Riksdag of the Estates.source
  • 1809May 10–11 – Peninsular War – Battle of Grijó: the Anglo-Portuguese Army, commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley, defeats the French army, commanded by Marshal Soult, in Portugal.source
  • 1810Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank, in Ruthwell, Scotland.source
  • 1810Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.source
  • 1823Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the coloniessource
  • 1824First Burmese War: the British take Rangoon.source
  • 1831first steam locomotive to be built in Glasgow completed by Murdoch, Aitken & Co. for the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.source
  • 1832The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.source
  • 1833The Le Van Khoi revolt breaks out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who has desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.source
  • 1833James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands on HMS Imogene.source
  • 1835Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.source
  • 1837The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.source
  • 1837Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.source
  • 1839May 7–11 – The Bedchamber Crisis in the United Kingdom: Following the announcement by Prime Minister Lord Melbourne that he intends to resign, Robert Peel asks (for political reasons) that Queen Victoria dismiss some of her personal attendants, Ladies of the Bedchamber, as a condition for his forming a government. Victoria refuses to accept the condition and Melbourne is persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister.source
  • 1844Government moves from Kingston to Montreal.source
  • 1854May 5–15 – Hokkien–Teochew Riots in Singapore.source
  • 1857Indian Rebellion of 1857: The 3rd Light Cavalry of the British East India Company's army rebels against its British officers, thus beginning the rebellion.source
  • 185710 May (starting date of the revolt)- Indian rebellion of 1857 (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny) or The First War Of Indian Independence, widespread uprising in northern and central India against the rule of the British East India Company.source
  • 1861The Royal Seminary is granted its constitution as the first public institution of higher academic learning open to women in Sweden.source
  • 1865American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by the Union Army near Irwinville, Georgia.source
  • 1866London bank Overend, Gurney and Company collapses, precipitating Panic of 1866.source
  • 1868May 10–14 – Boshin War – Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, Japan: Forces of the Emperor Meiji resist the retreating troops of the Tokugawa shogunate.source
  • 1869May 4–10 – Naval Battle of Hakodate: The Imperial Japanese Navy defeats adherents of the Tokugawa shogunate.source
  • 1869The first transcontinental railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by the driving of the "golden spike".source
  • 1869The "golden spike" is driven marking the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in Promontory, Utah.source
  • 1871The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed, confirming the frontiers between Germany and France. The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are transferred from France to Germany.source
  • 1871Treaty of Frankfurt is signed with confirming the frontiers between Germany and France.source
  • 1872Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States, although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.source
  • 1876Major pharmaceutical brand Eli Lilly is founded in Indiana, United States.source
  • 1876The Centennial Exposition begins in Philadelphia.source
  • 1877May 8–11 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is held.source
  • 1879Meteorite falls near Estherville, Iowa.source
  • 1879The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is formed.source
  • 1881Princess Stéphanie of Belgium marries Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, in the Augustinian Church, Vienna.source
  • 1881Carol I is crowned King of Romania.source
  • 1885May 9–12 – North-West Rebellion: Battle of Batoche – Canadian government forces inflict a decisive defeat on Métis rebels, bringing an end to their part in the rebellion.source
  • 1886Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.source
  • 1888Nippon Oil Corporation, predecessor of Eneos, a petroleum and gas energy brand in Japan, is founded in Niigata Prefecture.source
  • 1891Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.source
  • 1892Glen Ellyn, Illinois is incorporated.source
  • 1892A gas explosion at Mine No. 1 in Roslyn, Washington kills 45 miners, the worst industrial disaster in Washington State history.source
  • 1893Nix v. Hedden: the United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.source
  • 1897The Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB) is passed by the Reichtstag. The HGB will come into force together with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) on 1 January 1900.source
  • 1897May 10 – 19 zinc miners die of carbon monoxide poisoning at Snaefell Mine on the Isle of Man.source
  • 1898Prescott National Forest is established.source
  • 1899Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.source
  • 1900Prince Yoshihito, the future Emperor Taishō, marries Sadako Kujō.source
  • 1905Chinese Boycott of 1905 begins, it is a large-scale boycott of American goods in China in reaction to a string of anti-Chinese events in the United States.source
  • 1905The 1905 Snyder tornado destroys the town of Snyder, Oklahoma, killing 97.source
  • 1905The 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado destroys much of Snyder, Oklahoma, killing at least 97.source
  • 1914opening of Yevpatoria tramsource
  • 1915La Prensa Gráfica, a Salvadoran newspaper, began publication.source
  • 1917May 8–12 – 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.source
  • 1920In the general election, the Rikken Seiyūkai, led by Prime Minister Hara Takashi, increases on its majority of seats in the lower house of the Diet.source
  • 1920Agnès Souret is elected "The most beautiful woman in France", retrospectively considered the first Miss France.source
  • 1924In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.source
  • 19241924 Japanese general election: No party won a majority of seats, resulting in Kenseikai, Rikken Seiyūkai and the Kakushin Club forming the country's first coalition government led by Katō Takaaki.source
  • 1926Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the United States Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.source
  • 1928The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York, by General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).source
  • 1930The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1932Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France.source
  • 1932There are violent scenes in the German Reichstag building in Berlin as Hermann Göring and other Nazi MRDs attack the Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener for his lack of belief in a supposed Social Democratic putsch. After the debate, General Schleicher tells Groener that he has lost the confidence of the Army and must resign at once.source
  • 1932James Chadwick, working at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, reports the existence of the neutron.source
  • 1933Chaco War: Paraguay formally declares war on Bolivia.source
  • 1933Tateishi Electronic Manufacturing, as predecessor of Omron was founded.source
  • 1934May 10–25 - Battle of Cañada Strongestsource
  • 1940With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1941Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to be on a peace mission.source
  • 1941Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.source
  • 1944John Fredriksen, oil tanker and shipping tycoonsource
  • 1946The first V-2 rocket to be successfully launched in the United States is fired from White Sands Missile Range.source
  • 1947South Africa wins 2–1 at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, Australia.source
  • 1953The 1953 Eläintarhanajot motor race is held at Eläintarha and is won by Rodney Nuckey (UK).source
  • 1958Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival António de Oliveira Salazar, Humberto Delgado utters one of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".source
  • 1960The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth (codenamed Operation Sandblast).source
  • 1964Orna Datz, Israeli singer, actress and television presentersource
  • 1969The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.source
  • 1972Operation Linebacker and Operation Custom Tailor begin with large-scale bombing operations against North Vietnam by tactical fighter aircraft.source
  • 1973The Polisario Front, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Spanish Sahara, is formed.source
  • 1973The Polisario Front leads the Sahrawi insurgency in an effort to end colonial rule in the Spanish Sahara.source
  • 1992Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Czechoslovakia defeating Finland, 5–2, in the final game in Prague.source
  • 1994Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.source
  • 1995The Vaal Reefs mining disaster at Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, South Africa. A runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 ft to the bottom of the 6,900 ft deep shaft, killing 104.source
  • 1996The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur massacre.source
  • 1996Prime Minister John Howard announces new gun control measures, which involve the banning of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, self-loading rifles, shotguns and pump-action shotguns, as well as tightening of other gun laws. A nationwide register will be established, along with requirements for a genuine reason for owning, possessing or using a firearm, minimum standards for storage and mail order sales controls.source
  • 19961996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving eight people dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.source
  • 1997The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.source
  • 1999Igbinedion University, Okada is established.source
  • 2002American FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life in prison for espionage.source
  • 2003The first confirmed SARS case is reported in Finland. A man who had been visiting Toronto is now being treated at Turku University Hospital.source
  • 2003The Seoul National University Bundang Hospital begins its first treatment.source
  • 2005Human Rights Watch accuses Ethiopia of harassment and detention of opposition politicians in the Oromia region.source
  • 2007As a result of factors including the Blair–Brown deal and falling approval ratings as a result of the Iraq War, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, triggering the 2007 Labour Party leadership election, in which Chancellor Gordon Brown ran unopposed. Brown would officially replace Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June.source
  • 2007May 10–12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 takes place in Helsinki, Finland, and is won by Serbian entrant Marija Šerifović with the song "Molitva".source
  • 2010The 2010 Philippine presidential election is held, with Benigno Aquino III elected as Philippine President.source
  • 2011May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, and is won by Azeri entrants Ell & Nikki with the song "Running Scared".source
  • 2012May 9–13 - The first international bicycle tour was organized in memory of Heydar Aliyev.source
  • 2014May 6–10 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is won by Austrian entrant Conchita Wurst with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".source
  • 2015The first round of the 2015 Polish presidential election is held.source
  • 2016May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is held in Stockholm, Sweden, and is won by Ukrainian entrant Jamala with the song "1944".source
  • 2017Bahamian General election is heldsource
  • 2017May 9–13 – The Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is won by Portuguese entrant Salvador Sobral with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".source
  • 2018May 8–12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, and is won by Israeli entrant Netta Barzilai with the song "Toy".source
  • 2019Amid ongoing negotiations, the U.S.'s 25% tariff hike on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing China–United States trade war.source
  • 2020The Iranian Navy frigate Jamaran accidentally strikes the Iranian support vessel Konarak with a missile, killing nineteen sailors. This is the first friendly fire incident since February 2019, when an Indian Mil Mi-17 helicopter was mistakenly shot down by Indian air defense forces.source
  • 2022May 10–May 14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is held in Turin, Italy. The contest is won by Ukrainian folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra with their song "Stefania".source
  • 2023May 9–13 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is held in Liverpool, UK. Swedish contestant Loreen wins with the song "Tattoo".source
  • 2024TV3 moves its operations online after becoming unable to continue to afford broadcasting traditionally.source
  • 2024Air Vanuatu, the country's flag carrier, is voluntarily placed in liquidation by the Government of Vanuatu.source
  • 2024A series of solar storms and intense solar flares impact the Earth, rated G5 by NOAA, creating aurorae at more southerly and northerly latitudes than usual. This was the first G5 storm since 2003.source
  • 2024May 7–11 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is held in Malmö, Sweden. Swiss contestant Nemo wins with the song "The Code".source

Births

  • 210Claudius II, Roman emperor (died 270)source
  • 214Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (died 270)source
  • 874Meng Zhixiang, general of Later Tang (died 934)source
  • 955Al-Aziz Billah, caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (died 996)source
  • 1002Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Muslim scholar (died 1071)source
  • 1152Gangjong, Korean ruler of Goryeo (died 1213)source
  • 1265Emperor Fushimi of Japan (died 1317)source
  • 1272Bernardo Tolomei, Italian theologian (died 1348)source
  • 1291Gilbert de Clare, English nobleman and knight (died 1314)source
  • 1401Thomas Tuddenham, Landowner (died 1462)source
  • 1491Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon suo jure, French nobility (died 1521)source
  • 1491Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, duchess (died April 28 1521)source
  • 1609Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and through marriage countess of Nassau-Siegen (died 1674)source
  • 1614Zacharias Wagenaer, secretary, painter, then merchant and administrator (Dutch East-India Company) (died 1668)source
  • 1626Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen, Dutch art collector and merchant (died 1666)source
  • 1664Tørres Christensen, merchant, ship owner, land owner (died 1721).source
  • 1698Cuthbert Ellison, British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (died 1785)source
  • 1727Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (died 1781)source
  • 1756Singu Min, king of Myanmar (k. 1782)source
  • 1760Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)source
  • 1770Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823)source
  • 1788Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French engineer, physicist and inventor (died 1827)source
  • 1838John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (died 1865)source
  • 1843Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (died 1920)source
  • 1886Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (died 1968)source
  • 1900Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist (died 1977)source
  • 1923Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (died 2003)source
  • 1958Rick Santorum, American politiciansource
  • 1975Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian racing driversource

Deaths

  • 362Gordianus and Epimachus, Roman Catholic priests, martyrs and saintssource
  • 689Kusakabe, Japanese prince (born 662)source
  • 884Ahmad ibn Tulun, founder of the Tulunid Dynasty, dies after a 15-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Khumarawayh, as ruler of Egypt and Syria.source
  • 884Ahmad ibn Tulun, Governor of Egypt and founder of the Tulunid dynasty (born 835)source
  • 967Renaud of Roucy, Viking noblemansource
  • 995Baldwin I (or Boudewijn), bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1226Beatrice d'Este, Italian Benedictine nun and saint (born 1192)source
  • 1299Theingapati, Burmese prince and heir (Pagan Kingdom)source
  • 1299King Kyawswa of Pagan and his son, Crown Prince Theingapati, are executed at Myinsaing, by the three brothers of the Myinsaing Kingdom (nominally Kyawswa's viceroys), for submitting and being a vassal to the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (since 1297).source
  • 1299Kyawswa, Burmese ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (born 1260)source
  • 1318Richard de Clare, Thomas de Lees, Henry de Capella, James de Caunteton, John de Caunteton, all killed at Dysart O'Dea.source
  • 1403Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, spouse of John of Gauntsource
  • 1424Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japansource
  • 1477In England, John Stacy, Thomas Burdet and Thomas Blake are convicted of high treason after being charged with "imagining and compassing" the death of King Edward IV. Stacy and Burdet are hanged, drawn and quartered the next day.source
  • 1480Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (born 1417)source
  • 1482Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1397)source
  • 1493Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (born c. 1433)source
  • 1521Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (born 1457)source
  • 1531George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (born 1493)source
  • 1566Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a botanist (born 1501)source
  • 1569John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (born 1500)source
  • 1652Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (born 1558)source
  • 1657Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Swedish soldier and politician (born 1592)source
  • 1657Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, politician (born 1592)source
  • 1667Marie Louise Gonzaga, Polish queen (born 1611)source
  • 1670Claude Vignon, French painter (born 1593)source
  • 1703Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62source
  • 1717John Hathorne, American magistrate (born 1641)source
  • 1726Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (born 1670)source
  • 1737Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (born 1702)source
  • 1737Emperor Nakamikado (born 1702)source
  • 1739Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect during the late Baroque period (born 1686)source
  • 175810 May in Leipzig – Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, German academic, librarian and lexicographer (born 1694)source
  • 1760Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)source
  • 1774Timothy Woodbridge, Superintendent of Indian Affairs (born 1709)source
  • 1774King Louis XV of France (born 1710)source
  • 1775Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen consort of Denmark and Norway, 1766–1772 (born 1751)source
  • 1775Caroline Matilda, queen consort of Sweden, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 23 (scarlet fever)source
  • 1794Élisabeth of France, French princess (executed) (born 1764)source
  • 1798George Vancouver, British Royal Navy officer, explorer (Vancouver, Canada is named after him) (born 1757)source
  • 1807Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (born 1725)source
  • 1818Paul Revere, American patriot, silversmith (born 1735)source
  • 1829Thomas Young, English physician, linguist (born 1773)source
  • 1849The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan, over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors; over 20 people are killed when troops fire on the rioters.source
  • 1849Hokusai, Japanese Ukiyo-e Artist (born 1760)source
  • 1860Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist (born 1810)source
  • 1863Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (died of wounds) (born 1824)source
  • 1889Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (born 1826)source
  • 1896Antti Ahlström, businessman, founder of Ahlstrom Corporation, 68source
  • 1897Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary (born 1863)source
  • 1897Andrés Bonifacio and his brother Procopio Bonifacio are killed in Maragondon, Cavite.source
  • 1904Sir Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer (born 1841)source
  • 1916May 3–12 - 15 Irish rebel leaders who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in April are executed. Among them were Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke and William Pearse, brother of Patrick Pearse who had served as a captain rather than a leader.source
  • 1977Joan Crawford, American actress (born c. 1904)source
  • 1986Q. M. Rahman, government official (born 1906)source
  • 1994John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.source