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The following events took place on May 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 88 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 305

  Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
• 524

  King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
• 880

  The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
• 1328

  Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
• 1455

  Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.
• 1576

  Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1707

  The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1753

  Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
• 1759

  Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
• 1776

  Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
• 1778

  American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• 1785

  Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaii, defeats Kalanikūpule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• 1786

  In Vienna, Austria, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• 1794

  War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
• 1840

  The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
• 1844

  Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second modern police force and Asia’s first, is established.
• 1846

  The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
• 1851

  Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition in London.
• 1852

  The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
• 1856

  The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II of Spain.
• 1862

  American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• 1865

  The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• 1866

  The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1869

  The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
• 1875

  Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
• 1884

  Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
• 1884

  Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1885

  The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
• 1886

  Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers’ Day in many countries.

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