1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1775 – John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1775: John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress.
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1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 – Three underground explosions at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, kill 81 miners. An explosion at the colliery on 14 October 1913, which killed 439 miners and a rescuer, is still the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.
1915 – Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, joining WWI on the side of the Allies.
1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1942: U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, frustrated over being driven out of Burma by Japanese troops during World War II, told reporters in Delhi, India: “I claim we got a hell of a beating.”
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
1961 – American civil rights movement: In Jackson, Mississippi, 27 Freedom Riders are arrested for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 – Mountain climbing: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
2014 – At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium.
2014 – At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Feast of Mary Help of Christians
Anna Pak Agi (one of The Korean Martyrs)
David I of Scotland
Donatian and Rogatian
Joanna
Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue)
Vincent of Lérins
Anna Pak Agi (one of The Korean Martyrs)
David I of Scotland
Donatian and Rogatian
Joanna
Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue)
Vincent of Lérins
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Jackson Kemper (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1218 soldiers
with women and children, including:
Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician,
Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna,
and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and
Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius,
Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius,
and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)
Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of Wonderful Mountain (c.592)
Saint Kyriakos of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the Wonderworker
Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990)
with women and children, including:
Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician,
Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna,
and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and
Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius,
Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius,
and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)
Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of Wonderful Mountain (c.592)
Saint Kyriakos of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the Wonderworker
Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Donatian and Rogatian, brothers (299)
Martyr Afra (304)
Martyr Robustian, at Milan
Martyr Vincent of Porto
Martyrs Zöellus, Servilius, Felix, Silvanus, and Diocles, in Istria
Saint Patrice (Patrick), fourth Bishop of Bayeux in France (c.469)
Saint Elpidios (Elpidius), Bishop of Aversa, in Campania, southern Italy (5th c.)
Saint Vincent of Lerins (445)
Martyr Afra (304)
Martyr Robustian, at Milan
Martyr Vincent of Porto
Martyrs Zöellus, Servilius, Felix, Silvanus, and Diocles, in Istria
Saint Patrice (Patrick), fourth Bishop of Bayeux in France (c.469)
Saint Elpidios (Elpidius), Bishop of Aversa, in Campania, southern Italy (5th c.)
Saint Vincent of Lerins (445)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186)
Saint Gregory of Novgorod, Archbishop (1193)
Saint Gregory of Novgorod, Archbishop (1193)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (c.1067) of St. George of the Holy Mountain
and Georgia (1065)
Repose of Monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1818)
Repose of Blessed Amphilochius of Rostov (1824)
Glorification (1988) of Saint Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ (c.1803)
Inauguration of the church of Virgin Mary in Karrais (Al Kara) of Syria
and Georgia (1065)
Repose of Monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1818)
Repose of Blessed Amphilochius of Rostov (1824)
Glorification (1988) of Saint Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ (c.1803)
Inauguration of the church of Virgin Mary in Karrais (Al Kara) of Syria
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