Historical Events in May, Month of May Events
Here is a list of some historical events in May. You can learn What major event happened in May?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 6, 1840 | The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| May 23, 1846 | Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States. |
| May 26, 1972 | The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
| May 19, 1917 | The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded. |
| May 1, 1863 | American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins. |
| May 16, 1988 | A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. |
| May 6, 1889 | The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris. |
| May 28, 1995 | The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. |
| May 15, 1817 | Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). |
| May 15, 221 | Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. |
| May 24, 1961 | American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. |
| May 14, 1915 | The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| May 7, 1942 | World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. |
| May 12, 1593 | London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. |
| May 18, 1955 | Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. |
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