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.

30 # 2 ( May, 1998 ), pp. 341 – 372 in JSTOR

:: 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.

In May 1372 in Paris, Owain announced that he intended to claim the throne of Wales.

Mu Bai makes the acquaintance of Inspector Tsai ( De Ming Wang ), a police investigator from the provinces, and his daughter May ( Li Li ), who have come to Peking in pursuit of Fox.

For example, there are 20, 138, 200 Carmichael numbers between 1 and 10 < sup > 21 </ sup > ( approximately one in 50 billion numbers ).< ref name =" Pinch2007 "> Richard Pinch, " The Carmichael numbers up to 10 < sup > 21 </ sup >", May 2007 .</ ref > This makes tests based on Fermat's Little Theorem slightly risky compared to others such as the Solovay-Strassen primality test.

May 2009 The Egyptian Lover makes new Video " Freaky D. J.

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie makes remarks during the opening of the refurbished Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul on May 9, 2011.

* May 20 – Taiwanese ( ROC ) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan.

* May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.

* May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane ( and, unofficially, Bill Finger ) makes his first appearance in a comic book.

* May 25 – The parliament of Transjordan makes emir Abdullah their king.

* May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.

* May 8 – 31 – United States Navy Curtiss floatplane NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland ( departs May 16 ) and the Azores.

* May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U. S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.

* April 26 – May 24, 1827-The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.

* May 20 – May 21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, from New York City to Paris in his single-seat, single-engine monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis.

* April 26 – May 24 – The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.

* May 24 – Francois Arban, early French balloonist makes his 1st ascent.

Firestar makes her debut in Marvel's mainstream comic book universe in Uncanny X-Men # 193 ( May 1985 ).

A few months later, on 20 May 1807, King Louis ( now called " Lodewijk ") altered these arms, adding a helmet, leaving out his brother ’ s star and replacing the Grand Aigle with his own Dutch Order of the Union and the old Dutch devise Eendracht maakt macht (" Unity makes strength ") around the shield.

Depp was adopted as an honorary son by LaDonna Harris, a member of the Comanche Nation, on May 22, 2012 ; this makes him an honorary member of Harris's family, but not an enrolled member of the Nation.

In an otherwise seemingly thorough account, Cicero makes no mention of Bona Dea's May festival, and claims the goddess ' cult as an aristocratic privilege from the first ; the impeccably patrician Clodius, Cicero's social superior by birth, is presented as an innately impious, low-class oaf, and his popularist policies as threats to Rome's moral and religious security.

Tony Clifton still makes occasional appearances, most notably in the days leading up to May 16, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of Kaufman's death.

Rapp wrote on May 10, " The place is 25 miles from the Ohio mouth of the Wabash, and 12 miles from where the Ohio makes its curve first before the mouth.

Mayday became the super-heroine Spider-Girl and met the original May when she found herself displaced in time, although Mayday makes no attempt to explain who she really was.