Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 218Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year-old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
- 1204Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- 1527The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
- 1532Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1568Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
- Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
- A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
- Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
- Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.
- Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
- The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
- The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
- The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
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- A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
- May 1877 political crisis in France.
- Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
- The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
- The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
- The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
- A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
- In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
- The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
- American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
- Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
- Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
- The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
