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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
  • 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.{{cite book|last=Lock|first=Peter|title=The Franks in the Aegean: 1204-1500|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2013|isbn=9780582051393|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oqrAgAAQBAJ|page=310}}
  • 1364 – Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel.{{cite book|author=S. H. Cuttler|title=The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVHPC_QVLB0C&pg=PA172|accessdate=5 May 2013|date=18 December 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52643-2|page=172}}
  • 1426 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes King of Ava.{{cite book|author=Maha Sithu|title=Yazawin Thit|publisher=Ya-Pyei Publishing|location=Yangon|orig-year=1798|year=2012|edition=2nd printing|language=my|volume=1–3|editor1=Myint Swe|editor2=Kyaw Win|editor3=Thein Hlaing}}; Thursday, 10th waxing of Nayon 788 ME = 16 May 1426
  • 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
  • 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
  • 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.{{cite book|last=Wagner|first=John|title=Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America|location=New York|publisher=The Oryx Press|date=2002|isbn=9780816046577|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjfwNlN1sWYC|page=xxii}}
  • 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.

=1601–1900=

  • 1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army.
  • 1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.{{cite book|last=Lever|first=Evelyne|title=Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|date=2001|isbn=9780312283339|url=https://archive.org/details/marieantoinette00evel|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/marieantoinette00evel/page/22 22]–24}}
  • 1771 – 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.
  • 1777 – Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, in a duel in Savannah, Georgia.{{Cite book |last=Gamble |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Gamble (mayor) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5U-AAAAYAAJ |title=Savannah Duels and Duellists, 1733–1877 |publisher=Review Publishing & Printing Company |year=1923 |location=Savannah, Georgia |page=15 |oclc=1450131}}
  • 1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera.{{cite book| last = Esdaile| first = Charles| publication-date = 2002| year = 2002| title = The Peninsular War| publisher = Penguin Books| isbn = 978-0-14-027370-0| page = 340}} It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war.{{cite book| last = Oman| first = Sir Charles| author-link = Charles Oman| publication-date = 2004| year = 1911| title = A History of the Peninsular War: Volume IV, December 1810 to December 1811| publisher = Greenhill Books| isbn = 978-1-85367-618-5| page = 393}}
  • 1812 – Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia.{{cite book|last=Crowe|first=David|title=A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2011|isbn=9781403980090|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jVQBDgAAQBAJ|page=158}}
  • 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
  • 1832 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.{{Cite book|title=Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos|last=Montecino Aguirre|first=Sonia|publisher=Catalonia |year=2015|isbn=978-956-324-375-8 |pages=47–48|chapter=Alicanto |language=es}}{{cite book | title = Historia de Chile | language = es | trans-title = History of Chile | editor-last1 = Villalobos R. | editor-first1 = Sergio | editor-link1 = Sergio Villalobos | editor-last2 = Silva G. | editor-first2 = Osvaldo | editor-link2 = Osvaldo Silva | editor-last3 = Silva V. | editor-first3 = Fernando | editor-last4 = Patricio | editor-first4 = Estelle M. | year = 1995 | orig-year = 1974 | publisher = Editorial Universitaria | location = Santiago de Chile | pages = 469–472}}
  • 1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
  • 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.{{cite book|last1=Dicken|first1=Samuel N.|last2=Dicken|first2=Emily F.|title=The Making of Oregon: A Study in Historical Geography|location=Portland, Ore.|publisher=Oregon Historical Society|date=1979|isbn=9780875950631|page=72|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Byers|first=Roland O.|title=The Linchpin: The Oregon Trail in 1843|location=Moscow, Idaho|publisher=University Press of Idaho|date=1984|isbn=9780893010942|page=22|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Manwelleer|first=Mathew|title=Chronology of the U.S. Presidency|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2012|isbn=9781598846454|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uqB3ehA7M0oC|page=315}}
  • 1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg campaign, the decisive Union victory by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Champion Hill drives the Confederate army under John C. Pemberton back towards Vicksburg, Mississippi.{{cite web|title=Battle of Champion Hill (May 16)|url=https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/championhill.htm|website=NPS.gov|publisher=National Park Service|date=April 7, 2017|access-date=May 17, 2024}}
  • 1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel.{{cite book|last1=Hudgeons|first1=Marc|last2=Hudgeons|first2=Tom|title=Official 2009 Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins|location=New York|publisher=Random House Reference|date=2008|isbn=9780375721700|url=https://archive.org/details/official2009blac00hudg|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/official2009blac00hudg/page/290 290]}}
  • 1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.{{cite book|last=Hearn|first=Chester G.|title=The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Co.|date=2007|isbn=9780786430963|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Tld3CpYawwC|page=201}}
  • 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
  • 1877 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.{{cite book|last=Fortescue|first=William|title=The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940: Conflicts and Continuities|location=London|publisher=Routledge|date=2001|isbn=0415169445|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CMxDwAAQBAJ|pages=33–34}}
  • 1888 – 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.
  • 1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).

=1901–present=

Births

=Pre-1600=

  • 1418 – John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (probable;{{cite book|author=Sir George Francis Hill|title=A History of Cyprus: The Frankish Period, 1192-1432|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279348|year=1940|publisher=The University Press|page=466}} (died 1458)
  • 1455 – Wolfgang I of Oettingen, German count (died 1522)
  • 1542 – Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (died 1580)

=1601–1900=

  • 1606 – John Bulwer, British doctor (died 1656)
  • 1611 – Pope Innocent XI (died 1689){{cite book|author=Artaud de Montor, Alexis Francois|title=The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontifs, from St. Peter to Pius Ix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqgbUCHi8OkC&pg=PA137|year=1866|publisher=D. & J. Sadlier|pages=137}}
  • 1641 – Dudley North, English economist and politician (died 1691){{cite book|author=Roger North|title=The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt.|url=https://archive.org/details/lifehonourables00nortgoog|year=1744|publisher=editor and sold|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lifehonourables00nortgoog/page/n26 1]}}
  • 1710 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (died 1782)
  • 1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799){{cite book | last1=Grinstein | first1=Louise S. | last2=Campbell | first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics : a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/4 4] | url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/4 }}
  • 1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (died 1829)
  • 1788 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator (died 1866)
  • 1801 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (died 1872)
  • 1804 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (died 1894)
  • 1819 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
  • 1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (died 1894)
  • 1824 – Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (died 1920)
  • 1824 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (died 1893)
  • 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (died 1921)
  • 1831 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (died 1900)
  • 1859 – Horace Hutchinson, English golfer (died 1932){{cite web |author1=Paul @ Golfing Herald |title=Legends : Horace Hutchinson |url=https://golfingherald.com/horace-hutchinson/ |website=Golfing Herald |access-date=9 August 2020 |date=10 February 2020}}
  • 1862 – Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (died 1940)
  • 1876 – Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948){{cite web |last1=Blustein |first1=Bonnie Ellen |title=Koch, Fred Conrad (1876-1948), biochemist |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1300932 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300932 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}
  • 1879 – Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (died 1962)
  • 1882 – Simeon Price, American golfer (died 1945)
  • 1883 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (died 1986)
  • 1887 – Maria Lacerda de Moura, Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (died 1945){{cite book|first=Míriam Lifchitz Moreira|last=Leite|title=Outra Face do Feminismo: Maria Lacerda de Moura|location=São Paulo|publisher=Ática|year=1984|page=viii|language=pt|oclc=12190289}}
  • 1888 – Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
  • 1890 – Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist (died 1975){{cite book|author1=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2=Joy Dorothy Harvey|author1-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1370|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=1370}}
  • 1892 – Osgood Perkins, American actor (died 1937)
  • 1894 – Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (died 1960)
  • 1897 – Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic (died 1994)
  • 1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (died 1980)
  • 1898 – Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic (died 1993)
  • 1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1956)

=1901–present=

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1910 – Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (born 1856)
  • 1913 – Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (born 1849)
  • 1920 – Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (born 1824)
  • 1926 – Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
  • 1936 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (born 1860)
  • 1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (born 1870)
  • 1943 – Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1865)
  • 1943 – Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron.{{cite book|title=Animal Graves and Memorials|volume=452|series=Shire Album S|first=Jan |last=Toms|publisher=Osprey Publishing|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7478-0643-1|page=45}}
  • 1944 – George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)
  • 1944 – Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (born 1873){{cite news|url=https://opiniabuzau.ro/celebritati-medicale-buzoiene/|title=Celebrități medicale buzoiene / Doctor Mișea Filip, creatorul secției de contagioase a Spitalului Gârlași|first=Anghel C.|last=Tudor|newspaper=Opinia Buzău|date=10 April 2019|language=ro}}
  • 1946 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (born 1890)
  • 1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
  • 1947 – Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (born 1880){{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Kalle Hakala |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910400&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |publisher=Parliament of Finland |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611192919/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910400&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |archive-date=11 June 2011 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}
  • 1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
  • 1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (born 1910)
  • 1954 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1893)
  • 1955 – James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(born 1909)
  • 1955 – Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (born 1921)
  • 1956 – H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (born 1876)
  • 1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)
  • 1961 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (born 1881)
  • 1977 – Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
  • 1979 – A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (born 1889)
  • 1981 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1922)
  • 1981 – Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (born 1905)
  • 1984 – Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1949)
  • 1984 – Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (born 1913)
  • 1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
  • 1989 – Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1939)
  • 1990 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (born 1925)
  • 1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (born 1936)
  • 1993 – Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
  • 1994 – Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
  • 1996 – Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (born 1939)
  • 1997 – Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (born 1903)
  • 2002 – Alec Campbell, Australian soldier (born 1899)
  • 2003 – Mark McCormack, American lawyer and sports agent, founded IMG (born 1930)
  • 2005 – Andrew Goodpaster, American general (born 1915)
  • 2008 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker, co-founded the Opus One Winery (born 1913)
  • 2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)
  • 2010 – Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1918)
  • 2011 – Ralph Barker, English author (born 1917)
  • 2011 – Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (born 1928)
  • 2011 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (born 1932)
  • 2011 – Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (born 1934)
  • 2012 – Patricia Aakhus, American author and academic (born 1952)
  • 2012 – James Abdnor, American soldier and politician (born 1923)
  • 2012 – Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1936)
  • 2012 – Ernie Chan, Filipino-American illustrator (born 1940)
  • 2012 – Kevin Hickey, American baseball player (born 1956)
  • 2013 – Angelo Errichetti, American politician (born 1928)
  • 2013 – Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (born 1957)
  • 2013 – Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (born 1948)
  • 2013 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
  • 2013 – Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (born 1940){{cite news |title=Video: Final farewell in Rotherham for Hi-di-Hi star Paul Shane |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/video-final-farewell-rotherham-hi-di-hi-star-paul-shane-1863306 |access-date=31 December 2022 |work=Yorkshire Post |date=31 May 2013}}
  • 2013 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (born 1941)
  • 2013 – Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (born 1921)
  • 2014 – Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (born 1933)
  • 2014 – Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (born 1932)
  • 2014 – Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (born 1943)
  • 2014 – Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (born 1928)
  • 2015 – Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (born 1973)
  • 2015 – Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (born 1935)
  • 2015 – Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (born 1928)
  • 2019 – Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)
  • 2019 – Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929){{Cite web|date=2019-05-16|title=Bob Hawke, former Australian prime minister, dies aged 89|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/16/bob-hawke-former-australian-prime-minister-dies-age-89|access-date=2021-05-16|website=The Guardian|language=en}}
  • 2019 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obituaries/im-pei-dead.html|title=I.M. Pei, World-Renowned Architect, Is Dead at 102|author=Paul Goldberger|date=2019-05-16|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-17}}
  • 2021 – Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (born 1980){{Cite web|author=Marcelo Medeiros|title=Sao Paulo Mayor Bruno Covas dies of cancer at 41|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/americas/sao-paulo-mayor-bruno-covas-dies/index.html|access-date=2021-05-16|website=CNN|date=16 May 2021 }}
  • 2023 – Norm Green, American long-distance runner (born 1932){{cite web |url= https://www.usatf.org/news/2023/usatf-mourns-loss-of-southern-green |title= USATF mourns loss of Southern, Green |last= |first= |date= May 24, 2023|website=usatf.org |publisher= USATF|access-date= December 25, 2023|quote=}}
  • 2024 – Dabney Coleman, American actor (born 1932){{cite web|url=https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/17/dabney-coleman-9-to-5-dead-dies/|title='9 to 5' Star Dabney Coleman Dead at 92|publisher=TMZ|accessdate=May 17, 2024|date=May 17, 2024}}
  • 2024 – Eddie Gossage, American public speaker and businessman (born 1958){{Cite web |date=2024-05-17 |title=Colorful Texas racing promoter Gossage, 65, dies |url=https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/40161613/eddie-gossage-long-head-texas-motor-speedway-dies-65 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}
  • 2025 – Domingos Maubere, East Timorese Catholic priest and activist (born 1952){{Cite web |last=Soares |first=Ermelinda |last2=Belo |first2=Dircia |date=2025-05-21 |title=Bispu Leandro: "Amu Du, Halo Buat Hotu Ho Domin, Nia Espíritu Horik Nafatin Iha Ita" |trans-title=Bishop Leandro: "Amu Du Did Everything With Love, His Spirit Always Lives In Us" |url=https://sapnewstl.com/bispu-leandro-amu-du-halo-buat-hotu-ho-domin-nia-espiritu-horik-nafatin-iha-ita/ |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=SAP News TL |language=tet}}

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