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 1, 1486 | Christopher Columbus presents his plans discovering a western route to the Indies to the Spanish Queen Isabella I of Castile. |
| May 20, 1971 | In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus. |
| May 24, 2000 | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
| May 12, 1593 | London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. |
| May 12, 2015 | A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200. |
| May 26, 2004 | United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| May 5, 1941 | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. |
| May 14, 1836 | The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas. |
| May 30, 1961 | Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61. |
| May 27, 2001 | Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002. |
| May 9, 1450 | 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated. |
| May 4, 1471 | Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. |
| May 14, 1608 | The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states. |
| May 5, 1809 | Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. |
| May 17, 2007 | Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. |
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