1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1607: One hundred English colonists arrive along the west bank of the James River. The next day they founded "James Fort", the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony that will become the first European settlement in Australia.
1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony that will become the first European settlement in Australia.
1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1821 – Samuel Rust of New York City patents the Washington Press, the first practical and successful printing press to be built in America. George E Clymer’s Columbian Press was the first press to be built in America, however, it was never widely adopted.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 – Mexican–American War: Two months after fighting began, the United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air in Bloomfield, Connecticut. making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became WDRC-FM.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1947: The Taft-Hartley Act, which limits the power of unions, is approved by the Senate.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – The trademark “Velcro” was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.
1958 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963: Betty Miller became the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean as she landed her Piper Apache in Brisbane, Australia, having left Oakland, Calif., on April 25th, and making three stopovers along the way.
1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1976 – Atari released the video game “Breakout,” making the paddle controller useful for something besides “Pong.
1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1983: Major League Baseball Player Reggie Jackson is the first to strike out 2,000 times.
1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1990 – Dinamo Zagreb-Red Star Belgrade riot.
1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 – The Bính Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 – São Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2012 – 49 dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
2014 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
2014 – Major floods in Southeast Europe kill at least 47 people.
2015 – An industrial fire in Valenzuela, Philippines killing 72 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Walburg, Virgin. Double.
Contemporary Western
Our Lady of Fátima
Gerard of Villamagna
Glyceria
John the Silent
Julian of Norwich
Servatius
Gerard of Villamagna
Glyceria
John the Silent
Julian of Norwich
Servatius
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Frances Perkins (Episcopal Church (USA)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Virgin-martyr Glyceria at Heraclea, Propontis (c. 138-161)
Martyr Laodicius, jailer of Saint Glyceria (c. 138-161)
Saint Theoctistus, monk from Tekoa, Palestine
Saint Pausicacius, Bishop of Synnada (606)
Saint Nicephoros, Presbyter of the monastery of Ephapsios
Saint Sergius (George) the Confessor of Constantinople,
with his wife Irene and children (c. 829-842)
Saint Euthymius the New (the Illuminator) (1028), founder of Iveron
Monastery, and his fellow Georgian saints of Mount Athos:
His father monk-martyr John of Iveron (998);
his cousin monk-martyr George of Iveron (1065);
and monk-martyr Gabriel of Iveron (10th c.)
Martyr Laodicius, jailer of Saint Glyceria (c. 138-161)
Saint Theoctistus, monk from Tekoa, Palestine
Saint Pausicacius, Bishop of Synnada (606)
Saint Nicephoros, Presbyter of the monastery of Ephapsios
Saint Sergius (George) the Confessor of Constantinople,
with his wife Irene and children (c. 829-842)
Saint Euthymius the New (the Illuminator) (1028), founder of Iveron
Monastery, and his fellow Georgian saints of Mount Athos:
His father monk-martyr John of Iveron (998);
his cousin monk-martyr George of Iveron (1065);
and monk-martyr Gabriel of Iveron (10th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Abban of Ireland, baptized in 165 AD, missionary in Abingdon,
Oxfordshire (2nd c.)
Martyr Alexander of Rome (284-305)[20][21]
Saint Valerian of Auxerre, third Bishop of Auxerre in France,
and defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism. (350)
Saint Onesimus of Gaul, fifth Bishop of Soissons in France (361)
Saint Servatius, Bishop of Tongres, defender against Arianism
in the Netherlands (384)
Saint Agnes of Poitiers, chosen by St. Radegund to be Abbess
of Holy Cross at Poitiers in France (588)
Saint Mael (Mahel), Ascetic on the Isle of Bardsey (6th c.)
Saint Natalis (Natale), Bishop of Milan in Italy (751)
Saint Anno (Hanno, Annon), Bishop of Verona in Italy (780)
Saint Merwenna of Rumsey (Merwinna, Merewenna), first Abbess
of Rumsey convent, in Hampshire (c. 970)
Blessed Fortis Gabrielli, Ascetic (1040)
Oxfordshire (2nd c.)
Martyr Alexander of Rome (284-305)[20][21]
Saint Valerian of Auxerre, third Bishop of Auxerre in France,
and defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism. (350)
Saint Onesimus of Gaul, fifth Bishop of Soissons in France (361)
Saint Servatius, Bishop of Tongres, defender against Arianism
in the Netherlands (384)
Saint Agnes of Poitiers, chosen by St. Radegund to be Abbess
of Holy Cross at Poitiers in France (588)
Saint Mael (Mahel), Ascetic on the Isle of Bardsey (6th c.)
Saint Natalis (Natale), Bishop of Milan in Italy (751)
Saint Anno (Hanno, Annon), Bishop of Verona in Italy (780)
Saint Merwenna of Rumsey (Merwinna, Merewenna), first Abbess
of Rumsey convent, in Hampshire (c. 970)
Blessed Fortis Gabrielli, Ascetic (1040)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable monk-martyrs of Iveron Monastery, martyred by the Latins
(c. 1259-1280)
Repose of Saint Macarius, Abbot of Glushitsa Monastery, Vologda (1480)
Righteous Virgin Glyceria of Novgorod (1522)
(c. 1259-1280)
Repose of Saint Macarius, Abbot of Glushitsa Monastery, Vologda (1480)
Righteous Virgin Glyceria of Novgorod (1522)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Hieromartyrs Basil Sokolov, Alexander Zaozersky, and Christopher
Nadezhdin (1922)
Hieromartyr Macarius Telegin, and Martyr Sergius Tikhomirov (1922)
103 New Hieromartyrs of Cherkassk (Cherkas' ) (20th c.)
Nadezhdin (1922)
Hieromartyr Macarius Telegin, and Martyr Sergius Tikhomirov (1922)
103 New Hieromartyrs of Cherkassk (Cherkas' ) (20th c.)
Other commemorations
Consecration of the Monastery of Panagia Pantanassa (Most-Holy Queen of All),
on the small island of Hagia Glykeria (Incirli Adasi) in the Bay of Tuzla (12th c.)
Translation of the relics (1688) of Hieromartyr Saint Macarius, Archimandrite
of Ovruch and Pinsk, from Kaniv to Pereyaslavl (1678)
Repose of righteous Priest Alexis of Bortsurmany, disciple of St. Seraphim
of Sarov (1848)
Repose of Rassophore Monk John, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1863)
Repose of Eldress Sepfora of Klykovo (1997)
on the small island of Hagia Glykeria (Incirli Adasi) in the Bay of Tuzla (12th c.)
Translation of the relics (1688) of Hieromartyr Saint Macarius, Archimandrite
of Ovruch and Pinsk, from Kaniv to Pereyaslavl (1678)
Repose of righteous Priest Alexis of Bortsurmany, disciple of St. Seraphim
of Sarov (1848)
Repose of Rassophore Monk John, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1863)
Repose of Eldress Sepfora of Klykovo (1997)
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