218 – Julia 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.
1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
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.
1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1770 – A 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
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.
1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1812 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the U.S. Senate.
1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1877 – May 1877 political crisis in France.
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 opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
1914 – The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
1918 – 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.
1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
1939 – The government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.
1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943 – The Dambusters Raid was carried out by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command. The mission breached German dams, causing major damage to infrastructure and production.
1951 – 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.
1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1960: During the Cold War, a summit meeting between the U.S. and Soviet Union broke down over the recent downing of an American U-2 Spy Plane over Russia.
1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1975 – Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
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.
1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
2003 – In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
2015 – A passenger train collides with a tractor and trailer on a level crossing at Ibbenbüren, Germany. Two people are killed and 40 are injured.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Abda and Abdjesus, and companions:
Abdas of Susa
Andrew Bobola
Brendan the Navigator
Germerius
Honoratus of Amiens
John of Nepomuk
Margaret of Cortona
Peregrine of Auxerre
Simon Stock
Ubald
Abdas of Susa
Andrew Bobola
Brendan the Navigator
Germerius
Honoratus of Amiens
John of Nepomuk
Margaret of Cortona
Peregrine of Auxerre
Simon Stock
Ubald
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Caroline Chisholm (Church of England)
Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Hieromartyr Alexander of Jerusalem, Archbishop (251)
Saint Papylinus the Martyr
Martyrs Bachtisius, Isaac and Symeon of Persia (339)
Saint Theodore the Sanctified of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomios the Great (367)
Martyrs Abda (Audas) and Abdjesus (Audiesus) the Bishops, Benjamin, and 38
other martyrs at Beth-Kashkar in the Persian Empire, under Ardashir II (375),
including 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 unnamed virgins
Saint Neadius (Neadios), Bishop and Wonderworker
Saint Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra,
Constantinople (5th-6th c.)
Martyrdom of the 44 Holy Sabaite fathers, monk-martyrs of the Great Lavra
of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, massacred by the Saracens (610 or 614)
Martyr Peter of Blachernae (761)
Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Jerusalem (820)
Saint George of Mitylene, Bishop (821 or 842)
Saint Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (925)
Saint Papylinus the Martyr
Martyrs Bachtisius, Isaac and Symeon of Persia (339)
Saint Theodore the Sanctified of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomios the Great (367)
Martyrs Abda (Audas) and Abdjesus (Audiesus) the Bishops, Benjamin, and 38
other martyrs at Beth-Kashkar in the Persian Empire, under Ardashir II (375),
including 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 unnamed virgins
Saint Neadius (Neadios), Bishop and Wonderworker
Saint Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra,
Constantinople (5th-6th c.)
Martyrdom of the 44 Holy Sabaite fathers, monk-martyrs of the Great Lavra
of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, massacred by the Saracens (610 or 614)
Martyr Peter of Blachernae (761)
Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Jerusalem (820)
Saint George of Mitylene, Bishop (821 or 842)
Saint Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (925)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Fort (Fort de Bordeaux), first Bishop of Bordeaux in France, venerated
as a martyr (c. 1st c.?)
Saint Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (138)
Saint Peregrine of Auxerre, martyr, the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder
of its first cathedral (261 or 304)
Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis in Africa
Martyrs Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania (c. 303)
Saint Hilary, Bishop of Pavia, one of the bishops in the north of Italy who fought
against Arianism (376)
Saint Possidius, Bishop of Calama in Numidia in North Africa, a friend of Saint
Augustine of Hippo (c. 370 - c. 440)
Saint Primael, ascetic, from Britain, he went to Brittany and became a hermit
near Quimper (c. 450)
Blessed child-saint Musa of Rome (5th c.)
Saint Carantac (Carantog, Caimach, Carnath), Welsh prince who aided St Patrick
in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Fidolus (Phal), Abbot at Isle-Aumont, south of Troyes (c. 540 - 549)
Saint Germerius, Bishop of Toulouse in France for fifty years (560)
Saint Brendan the Navigator, abbot of Clonfert (c. 577)
Saint Domnolus, Bishop of Le Mans (581)
Saint Carantoc, an abbot who founded the church of Llangrannog in Wales (6th c.)
Saint Honoratus of Amiens, the seventh bishop of Amiens (c. 600)
Saint Annobert (Alnobert), a monk at Almenêches, consecrated Bishop of Séez
in France (c. 689)
Saint Franchy (Francovæcus), a monk at St Martin de la Bretonnière in France,
later a hermit in the Nivernais (Diocese of Nevers) (7th c.)
as a martyr (c. 1st c.?)
Saint Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (138)
Saint Peregrine of Auxerre, martyr, the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder
of its first cathedral (261 or 304)
Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis in Africa
Martyrs Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania (c. 303)
Saint Hilary, Bishop of Pavia, one of the bishops in the north of Italy who fought
against Arianism (376)
Saint Possidius, Bishop of Calama in Numidia in North Africa, a friend of Saint
Augustine of Hippo (c. 370 - c. 440)
Saint Primael, ascetic, from Britain, he went to Brittany and became a hermit
near Quimper (c. 450)
Blessed child-saint Musa of Rome (5th c.)
Saint Carantac (Carantog, Caimach, Carnath), Welsh prince who aided St Patrick
in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Fidolus (Phal), Abbot at Isle-Aumont, south of Troyes (c. 540 - 549)
Saint Germerius, Bishop of Toulouse in France for fifty years (560)
Saint Brendan the Navigator, abbot of Clonfert (c. 577)
Saint Domnolus, Bishop of Le Mans (581)
Saint Carantoc, an abbot who founded the church of Llangrannog in Wales (6th c.)
Saint Honoratus of Amiens, the seventh bishop of Amiens (c. 600)
Saint Annobert (Alnobert), a monk at Almenêches, consecrated Bishop of Séez
in France (c. 689)
Saint Franchy (Francovæcus), a monk at St Martin de la Bretonnière in France,
later a hermit in the Nivernais (Diocese of Nevers) (7th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saints Cassian (1537) and Laurence (1548), disciples of Venerable Cornelius
of Komel, Abbots of Komel ("Korneliev" Monastery), Vologda
New Hieromartyr Teodor (Nestorović) of Vršac, Bishop of Vršac in Banat,
Serbia (1595)
New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, at Trikala, whose relics are at Meteora (1617)
Venerable Hieromonk Matthew of Yaransk the Wonderworker
('Mitrophan Kuzmich Zvetsov') (1927)
of Komel, Abbots of Komel ("Korneliev" Monastery), Vologda
New Hieromartyr Teodor (Nestorović) of Vršac, Bishop of Vršac in Banat,
Serbia (1595)
New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, at Trikala, whose relics are at Meteora (1617)
Venerable Hieromonk Matthew of Yaransk the Wonderworker
('Mitrophan Kuzmich Zvetsov') (1927)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyr Vukasin of Serbia, under the Ustashi terrorists (1941)
Other commemorations
Foundation of the church of Saint Euphemia, near the Neorion (port facilities),
by the Dolmabahçe Palace of Constantinople
Translation of the relics (1545) of Saint Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop,
Wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
Commemoration of Saint Macarius (Notaras) of Corinth (1805) in the village
of Myloi, Samos island
by the Dolmabahçe Palace of Constantinople
Translation of the relics (1545) of Saint Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop,
Wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
Commemoration of Saint Macarius (Notaras) of Corinth (1805) in the village
of Myloi, Samos island
Coptic Church
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