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Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (died 1739)
Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné| Year | Name / Event | Description |
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| 553 | Second Council of Constantinople | The Second Council of Constantinople begins. |
| 1215 | John, King of England | Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. |
| 1260 | Kublai Khan | Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. |
| 1494 | Christopher Columbus | On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. |
| 1609 | Shimazu Tadatsune | Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. |
| 1640 | Charles I of England | King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. |
| 1654 | Cromwell's Act of Grace | Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. |
| 1762 | Russia | Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. |
| 1789 | France | In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. |
| 1809 | Mary Dixon Kies | Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. |
| 1821 | Napoleon | Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1821 | The Guardian | The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published. |
| 1835 | History of rail transport in Belgium | The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. |
| 1862 | Cinco de Mayo | Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. |
| 1864 | American Civil War | American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County. |
| 1865 | Conclusion of the American Civil War | American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia. |
| 1866 | Memorial Day | Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. |
| 1877 | American Indian Wars | American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
| 1886 | Eight-hour day movement | Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre. |
| 1887 | Academia Peruana de la Lengua | The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded. |
| 1891 | Carnegie Hall | The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. |
| 1904 | Pitcher | Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. |
| 1905 | Stratton Brothers case | The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder. |
| 1912 | Bolsheviks | The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published. |
| 1920 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. |
| 1930 | 1930 Bago earthquake | The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. |
| 1936 | March of the Iron Will | Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| 1940 | World War II | World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. |
| 1941 | Haile Selassie | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. |
| 1945 | Prague uprising | World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation. |
| 1945 | Fu-Go balloon bomb | World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. |
| 1945 | Battle of Castle Itter | World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively. |
| 1946 | International Military Tribunal for the Far East | The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
| 1955 | Bonn–Paris conventions | The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect. |
| 1961 | Project Mercury | Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. |
| 1964 | Council of Europe | The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. |
| 1972 | Alitalia Flight 112 | Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. |
| 1973 | Secretariat (horse) | Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record. |
| 1980 | Iranian Embassy siege | Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. |
| 1981 | Bobby Sands | Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. |
| 1985 | Ronald Reagan | Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech. |
| 1987 | Iran–Contra affair | Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America |
| 1991 | 1991 Washington, D.C., riot | A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. |
| 1994 | Bishkek Protocol | The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
| 1994 | Caning of Michael Fay | American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. |
| 2006 | Sudan | The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. |
| 2007 | Kenya Airways Flight 507 | Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon. |
| 2010 | Anti-austerity movement in Greece | Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. |
| 2023 | World Health Organization | The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency. |
