May 1st:
305 - Emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Jovius of Rome resigns
305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
1328 -
Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the
Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent
state.
1523 - Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1544 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 - Council of Trente resumes
1576 -
Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna
Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1703 - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1711 - Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1715 - Prussia declares war on Sweden
1725 - Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
1756 - France & Austria sign alliance
1757 - Austria & France divide Prussia
1759 - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1781 - Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1785 - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
1853 - Argentina adopts it's constitution
1873 - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1873 - International Exhibition opens in Vienna
1909 - Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1914 - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1924 - Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
1925 - Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1932 - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1934 - Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 - Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1940 - 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1941 - German assault on Tobruk
1943 - German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1945 - Soviet army reach Rostock
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1961 - Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1962 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 - Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1991 - Angola's civil war ends
2004 -
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at
the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 -
The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42
other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 -
The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police
Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter
of controversy.
2008 -
The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in
2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the
European Patent Convention.
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2010 - Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
2011 - Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.