* May 1-The Rolling Stones announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

* May 1-The United Network ( initially known as the Overmyer Network ) launches broadcasting with the talk / variety show The Las Vegas Show — which would be the only show it airs, as both network and show disappear in June due in part to transmission expenses.

* May 1-The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.

* May 1-The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake.

** May 1-The city of Sanjō merged with the town of Sakae and the village of Shitada ( both from Minamikanbara District ).

* May 1-The National Trust in the United Kingdom acquires its first part of Wicken Fen, making it the country's oldest wetland nature reserve.

* May 1-The Capitol Cinema, Ottawa's only movie palace, is closed and later demolished

* May 1-The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is established under the command of Lieutenant General Kinichi Yasumitsu.

* May 1-The Derrynaflan Chalice is discovered in a bog.

* May 1-The BBC brings into service the first television transmitter in Ireland, at Glencairn ( Belfast ).

* May 1-The Jubilee line on the London Underground opens between Stanmore and Charing Cross.

* May 1-The Kington Tramway, a horse-worked plateway, is opened from Eardisley to Kington, Herefordshire, England.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.

Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May on the Gregorian calendar ( the Julian calendar is no longer used as the civil calendar of the countries where Eastern Christian traditions predominate ).

On certain days of the year, such as Easter, May Day and Christmas, particular songs celebrate the yearly cycle.

* Eastern Christianity celebrates Easter on a Sunday between April 4 and May 8.

As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

After celebrating Easter of 1087 in his monastery, Victor proceeded to Rome, and when the Normans had driven the soldiers of the Antipope Clement III ( Guibert of Ravenna ) out of St. Peter's, he was consecrated and enthroned on 9 May 1087.

By Easter, William was at Winchester, where he was soon joined by his wife Matilda, who was crowned in May 1068.

After the Cockermouth school, he was sent to a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted on instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around Easter, May Day, and Shrove Tuesday.

The Irish Annals of the Four Masters recorded the comet as " A star appeared on the seventh of the Calends of May, on Tuesday after Little Easter, than whose light the brilliance or light of the moon was not greater ; and it was visible to all in this manner till the end of four nights afterwards.

* May 5 – Easter ( Eastern Christianity ).

By a decree of 5 May 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter ( the Sunday after Easter Day itself ), is known also in the Roman Rite as Divine Mercy Sunday.

In Eastern Christianity, Easter can fall between March 22 and April 25 on Julian Calendar ( thus between April 4 and May 8 in terms of the Gregorian calendar, during the period 1900 and 2099 ), so Good Friday can fall between March 20 and April 23, inclusive ( or between April 2 and May 6 in terms of the Gregorian calendar ).

Initially the Derby was run on a Thursday in late May or early June depending on when Easter occurred.

* Easter in Mataró: celebrated every year during one week on a movable date from the end of March to the very beginning of May

* the vacances de printemps ( spring ), formerly vacances de Pâques ( Easter )-two weeks in April and May.

A major Easter grass factory is located in the northern quadrant of the borough limits ; until May 2007, the facility was owned by Bleyer Industries.

Two of the biggest festivals are the three-day carnival at Binche, near Mons, held just before Lent ( the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter ), and the Procession of the Holy Blood, held in Bruges in May.

Heavy building work is planned to be started in early May 2005, with the humanities block which consists of four classrooms, a humanities office and a storeroom being demolished in the school Easter break in March 2006 to make way for the future development to accommodate the extra students.

* May – June – Merthyr Rising 1831: Coal miners and others riot in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales for improved working conditions.

In May 2012, it was announced that original members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson, along with Parker Lundgren and Crimson Glory frontman Todd La Torre had formed a band called Rising West, playing songs from the first five Queensrÿche albums only.

* Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers ( May 1932 ; posthumous )

Major John MacBride ( sometimes mistranscribed as McBride ) ( 8 May 1868 – 5 May 1916 ) was an Irish republican executed for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising.

On 16 May 1991, he stated in parliament that " Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down.

MacBride was executed in May 1916 along with James Connolly and other leaders of the Easter Rising.

Joseph Mary Plunkett ( Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid, 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916 ) was an Irish nationalist, poet, journalist, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Parts of Startide Rising were published as " The Tides of Kithrup " in the May 1981 issue of Analog.

Acting / theater / performing experience includes an ' extra ' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads ( May 2007 ); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ( September 2007 ); an ' extra ' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising ( November 2007 ); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, ( August 2008 ).

# Dark Mist Rising, ( Gollancz May 2011 )

He was involved in May 1916 with Lloyd George ’ s futile attempt to implement Home Rule after the Rising, which failed in July on the issue of the exclusion or not of Ulster.

The Gazette ceased publication during the Rising and for more than a week following it, with the result that a compendium issue was later published for the period between 25 April and 9 May 1916.

In May 1998, in a protest by 2000 ex-PoWs, a Burma Railway veteran torched the Rising Sun banner before both Emperor Akihito and the Queen.

Thomas James " Tom " Clarke (; 11 March 1857 – 3 May 1916 ) was an Irish revolutionary leader and arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising.

Éamonn Ceannt ( 21 September 1881 – 8 May 1916 ), born Edward Thomas Kent, was an Irish republican, mostly known for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Seán Mac Diarmada ( February 28, 1883 – May 12, 1916 ) ( born John MacDermott, usually used the name Sean MacDermott ) was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.

Michael Mallin ( Irish: Micheál Ó Mealláin, 1 December 1874 – 8 May 1916 ) was an Irish rebel and socialist who took an active role in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Edward " Ned " Daly ( 25 February 1891 – 4 May 1916 ) was commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion during the Easter Rising of 1916.

William " Willie " Pearse ( November 15, 1881 – May 4, 1916 ) was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising.

For his part in the 1916 Easter Rising, he was shot by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, on 8 May 1916.

Thomas MacDonagh () ( 1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916 ) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Thomas Kent (; 1865 – 9 May 1916 ) was an Irish nationalist court-martialled and executed following a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) on 2 May 1916, in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.

For Image Comics he worked on the crossover event " Wildstorm Rising ", drawing and coloring the first issue, WildStorm Rising # 1 ( May 1995 ), and all eleven of the covers for the interlinked series.