On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.

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:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

Afonso IV (; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357 ), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1325 until his death.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

By Béatrice Noon he had Juana Alfonsa Milán y Quiñones de León ( 19 April 1916 – 16 May 2005 )

* King Béla IV of Hungary ( 1206 – 3 May 1270 )

14 May 1234: Beatrice D ' Este ( c. 1215 – before 8 May 1245 ), daughter of Aldobrandino I D ' Este and his wife

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

As of May 2004, 30 % of people in the ACT aged 15 – 64 had a level of educational attainment equal to at least an bachelor's degree, significantly higher than the national average of 19 %.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

February 1834 – 23 May 1918 ) was a German Lutheran missionary to Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language.

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.

After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, which marked the definitive split between left and right-wing Peronism, the Montoneros were expelled from the Justicialist party in May 1974 by Perón.

Regional bitterness was intensified by the May 1980 Gwangju massacre, in which about 200 and perhaps many more inhabitants of the capital of Jeollanam-do were killed by government troops sent to quell an insurrection.

However in May 2005, hundreds were killed by police in a massacre of protesters in the city of Andijan.

In May 2005, the military was involved in suppressing unrest in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijan, which became known as the Andijan massacre.

* May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths, hundreds of injuries.

* May 8 – 29 – Sétif massacre: In Algeria, thousands die as French troops and released Italian POWs kill an estimated 6, 000 to 40, 000 Algerian citizens.

* May 9 – May 12 – Japanese troops carry out the Changjiao massacre in Changjiao, Hunan, China.

* May 7 – May 9 – Bava-Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed when General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy ( in 1900, King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an act of vengeance for his praise of the shooting ).

* May 19 – The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas.

* May 26 – Pequot War: A band of English settlers under Captain John Mason, and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in what is later known as the Mystic massacre.

* May 19 – Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker ; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.

* May 18 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia

May 13-Kfar Etzion massacre was an act committed by Arab forces, after the surrender of the Jewish village to Arab Legion.

Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage is a 1937 documentary film which tells the story of a strike at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937, which escalated into a massacre in which 10 workers were killed, documented by this film.

In 1302, however, after the Bruges Matins ( the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by the members of the local Flemish militia on 18 May 1302 ), the population joined forces with the Count of Flanders against the French, culminating in the victory at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, fought near Kortrijk on July 11.

Arrested after the Sétif massacre of May 8, 1945, during which the French Army and Pied Noir mobs killed about 6, 000 Algerians, Abbas founded the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto ( UDMA ) in 1946 and was elected as a deputy.

" At first, and despite the Sétif massacre of May 8, 1945 " that have between 20 000 and 45 000 deaths, according to other sources ", and the pro-Independence struggle before World War II, most Algerians were in favor of a relative status-quo.

* On 30 May 1972, 28 passengers were gunned down at Ben Gurion International Airport by members of the Japanese Red Army in collaboration with the PFLP in what became known as the Lod Airport massacre.

* May 30, 1972: The Lod Airport massacre: an assault rifle ( Sa vz. 58 ) and grenade attack on Israel's Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, now Ben Gurion International Airport, killed 26 people ; about 80 others were injured.

Tadjena was later subjected to a second smaller massacre on the 25-26 May 2003, when 7 people were killed on the 25th and another 14 from a single family on the 26th.