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Other festivals celebrated here include Carnival, the feast of San Isidro Labrador on 15 May and a crafts and livestock fair called the Nao de China in November.

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.

* Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruíz y Moragas ( born 26 April 1929 ), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruíz Moragas

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

They took Almudévar, Gurrea de Gállego, and Zuera, besieging Zaragoza itself by the end of May.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

Vicious air bombings were targeted on Alicante during the three years of civil conflict, most notably the bombing by the Italian Aviazione Legionaria of the Mercado de Abastos in 25 May 1938 in which more than 300 civilians perished.

His troops left Córdoba on 7 May 914 and, after a few days, encamped before the walls of Balda ( identified with today's Cuevas de San Marcos ).

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

Cartagena de Indias established a junta on May 22, 1810, followed others, including the viceregal capital, Bogotá, on July 20 ( today Colombia's Independence Day ).

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes ; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993.

In May 1090, El Cid defeated and captured Berenguer in the Battle of Tébar ( nowadays Pinar de Tévar, near Monroyo, Teruel ).

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was already First Consul of the French Republic ( Premier Consul de la République française ) for life, declared himself Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the Empire of the French ( Empire des Français ).

When his wife Josefa died in 1812, he was mentally and emotionally processing the war by painting The Charge of the Mamelukes and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of prints later known as The Disasters of War ( Los desastres de la guerra ).

Under the terms of the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, Díaz and Corral agreed to resign by the end of May 1911, with Díaz's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francisco León de la Barra, taking over as interim president solely for the purpose of calling general elections.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

On 15 May 2003 he received two life sentences for murder as well as three years for breaking into Marike de Klerk's apartment.

Starring May de Sousa, George Grossmith Jr., Gertie Millar, Robert Nainby and Edmund Payne.

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

A great homage was done in memory of Aristides Sousa Mendes at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 11 May and 10 November 2005, in a benefit performance on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of UNESCO and the fortieth anniversary of Portugal's admittance.

Márcio de Sousa e Melo ( May 26, 1906, Florianópolis-January 31, 1991 was a general with the Brazilian air force.

* Júlio da Rosa ( Flamengos, Horta ; 24 May 1924 )-Parish priest and Monseigneur, elevated to the latter title by Pope Benedict XVI ( announced on 25 May 2006 by the Bishop of the Diocese of Angra, António Sousa Braga during a celebrations in honour of Nossa Senhora das Angústias ).

On 15 May 2011, Sousa signed a three-year contract with newly-crowned Hungarian champions Videoton FC.

Frei Luís de Sousa ( Manoel or Manuel de Sousa Coutinho ) ( 1555 – 5 May 1632 ), Portuguese monk and prose-writer, was born at Santarém, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho.

Jorge Luiz Pereira de Sousa, aka Jorginho ( born 6 May 1977 ), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Of the 33 works dedicated to him, thirteen were original or translated works of literature, which May says suggest he was more sought out for patronage by literary writers, as opposed to authors of religious or scientific works, than other patrons of similar means.

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.

In the twentieth and continuing into the twenty-first century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival again.

After James took the step of forcing Anglican clergymen to read the Declaration of Indulgence — the proclamation granting religious liberty to Catholics and dissenters — from their churches in May 1688, his popularity plunged further.

As of May 2007, it was the twelfth-largest religious body in the world, and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.

* May 6 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer ( d. 1882 )

* May 20 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian religious scholar and saint ( d. 1994 )

* May 23 – The Second Defenestration of Prague – Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany ( Imperial Governors ) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt ( 1618 – 1621 ) precipitating the Thirty Years ' War into armed conflict and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.

* May 23 – ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Persian Bahá ' í religious leader ( d. 1921 )

* May 6 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer ( b. 1585 )

* May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence ( b. 1452 )

* May 22 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer ( d. 1833 )

* May 9 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer ( b. 1700 )

* May 9 – Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter ( b. 1510 )

* May 26 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer ( d. 1760 )

In his message " The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word " to priests for the 44th World Communications Day ( 16 May 2010 ), Pope Benedict XVI called for them to become digital citizens and engage with the information society, saying, " Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word .... Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today ’ s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?

Generalsuperintendant von Schleswig und Holstein " (" Royal general superintendent of Schleswig and Holstein ") between 1760 and 1791, and his wife ( m. Berleburg, 8 May 1732 ) Maria Dorothea Carl ( Berleburg, 31 July 1716 – Schleswig, 31 December 1792 ), a respectable middle-class family that believed in religious tolerance.

Their religious fervor died down over the winter, but when they heard of Ann Lee's preaching in May 1780, many of those New Lights traveled to Niskayuna, some forty miles away, to meet her.

* May 5 – Emperor Galerius declares on his deathbed religious freedom and issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

On 5 May, the House of Lords created a committee with the customary religious balance to examine and determine doctrine.

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.

Livia's name did not and could not appear in the official religious calendars, but Ovid's Fasti associates her with May 1, and presents her as the ideal wife and " paragon of female Roman virtue ".

May refer to a religious event that includes several religious denominations from not always related religious groups.