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.

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

* May 27 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria ( d. 1825 )

* May 15 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer ( d. 1792 )

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

It was General Corona that accepted the sword of surrender from Emperor Maximilian at Queretaro on 15 May 1867 ( Vandervort, 2006, pp. 230 – 231, 297 ).

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger ( 19 March 187311 May 1916 ) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.

On 9 March 1808 Berthier married Duchess Maria Elisabeth Franziska in Bavaria ( Landshut, 5 May 1784 – Paris, 1 June 1849 ), only daughter of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, the sister of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.

The university closed in May 1800, by order of the Prince-elector Maximilian IV ( later Maximilian I, King of Bavaria ).

Many favored the nomination of Archduke Maximilian of Austria as monarch, and so, in May 1864, became the new emperor of Mexico, Maximilian I of Mexico, and with his consort, Carlota of Mexico, landed at Veracruz with the backing of Mexican conservatives, including the Mexican nobility, and France.

Maximilian enfeoffed Kitzbühel, with the result that it came under the rule of the Counts of Lamberg at the end of the 16th century, until 1 May 1840, when Kitzbühel was ceremonially transferred to the state.

Maximilian Nepomuk Mutzke ( born May 21, 1981 in Krenkingen, Baden-Württemberg ) is a German singer and drummer.

** Luitpold Maximilian Ludwig Karl, Hereditary Prince of Bavaria ( 8 May 1901 – 27 August 1914 ).

Maximilian Hell () ( May 15, 1720 – April 14, 1792 ) was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary.

Pitigliano's death in January had left Andrea Gritti in command of the Venetian forces ; although Maximilian failed to reinforce Louis, the French army was nonetheless sufficient to drive the Venetians from Vicenza by May.

Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips ( 4 May 1928 – 10 September 1961 ) was a German racing driver.

Professor Rolf Maximilian Sievert ( 6 May 1896 – 3 October 1966 ) was a medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of radiation.

The municipality's name honours Rafael Platón Sánchez ( 1831 – 1867 ), a native of the area who fought in the Battle of Puebla of 5 May 1862 and later chaired the court martial that sentenced Emperor Maximilian and his generals Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía to death by firing squad in Santiago de Querétaro on 19 June 1867.

Imperial ban by Emperor Maximilian II against Wilhelm von Grumbach, May 13, 1566

He was placed under the ban while the ban against Grumbach had been renewed and signed by Emperor Maximilian II on May 13.

** Prince Joseph Wenzel Maximilian Maria of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg ( born 24 May 1995 in London )

* Prince Maximilian Nikolaus Maria ( b. St Gallen, 16 May 1969 ) He married Angela Gisela Brown civilly in Vaduz on 21 January 2000 and religiously in New York City, New York, in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer ( New York ), on 29 January 2000, 1 child:

In May, Fallmerayer's former pupil Maximilian II, King of Bavaria since the abdication of his father in March, called on Fallmerayer to serve as his political advisor, in which role he served until the end of 1848.