Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

In 1552 he was appointed Generalsuperintendent at Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg, where he died on the 5th of May 1553.

* May 24 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer ( b. 1553 )

* May 14 – King Henry IV of France ( assassinated ) ( b. 1553 )

* May 27 – Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France ( b. 1553 )

Mary's power was increasing: in May 1553, the imperial ambassador in London, Jean Scheyfve, heard she had challenged Arran's regency and proposed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her illegitimate step-son, as a replacement.

Among the best-known individuals to be executed by burning were Jacques de Molay ( 1314 ), Jan Hus ( 1415 ), St. Joan of Arc ( 30 May 1431 ), Savonarola ( 1498 ) Patrick Hamilton ( 1528 ), John Frith ( 1533 ), William Tyndale ( 1536 ), Michael Servetus ( 1553 ), Giordano Bruno ( 1600 ) and Avvakum ( 1682 ).

Jane had been married to Northumberland's son, Guilford Dudley, on 25 May 1553.

A planned voyage to China via the Northeast passage under Hugh Willoughby sailed in May 1553 — King Edward watched their departure from his window.

On 21 May 1553 Guildford Dudley, Northumberland's second youngest son, married Lady Jane Grey, the fervently Protestant daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and, through her mother Frances Brandon, a grandniece of Henry VIII.

Towards the end of 1552 Whittingham visited universities in Germany and Geneva, and returned to England in May 1553.

5th term: 1 September 1553 to 26 May 1556

Jacques Auguste de Thou ( Thuanus ) ( October 8, 1553, Paris – May 7, 1617, Paris ) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.

As early as May 1553, the imperial ambassador to England, Jean Scheyfve, heard that Mary of Guise planned to make him Regent of Scotland in place of James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault.

He was eventually pardoned and returned to his place on the Council in May 1553.

* May 24-Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer ( born 1553 )

He took part in the heroic resistance of the town of Thérouanne against the attacks of the troops of Charles V: finally, it had to fall and he was made prisoner on 30 May 1553.

He was married to Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey, on 25 May 1553, in a political match arranged by their parents in the hopes of assisting the Duke of Northumberland with his plan to secure the succession of Lady Jane who also married along side her sister on that day, the Duke's younger son, Lord Guildford Dudley.

Johannes Aal ( c. 1500 – 28 May 1553 ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian, composer and dramaturg.

As the young Edward VI's health failed, it was necessary to determine what should be done on his death, and a memorial was drawn up and signed by Sir William Petre in May 1553, under the direction of the King and the Privy Council, limiting the succession, in the interest of Lady Jane Grey, to Protestants.

The fleet departed from London on 10 May 1553, but near the Lofoten islands a storm hit the ships and separated Chancellor's vessel from the other two.

On 21 May 1553, Henry was wed to Katherine Dudley, daughter of Northumberland by Jane Guildford.

The Duchess of Somerset had been arrested with her husband and continued in the Tower until 30 May 1553.

In 1553 Cawood seems to have acquired a certain amount of printing material from Steven Mierdman, who on the accession of May had been obliged to leave England.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

In May 2011, in response to the increase presence of Over-the-Top ( OTT ) programming, the CRTC put a call out to the public to provide input on the impact OTT programming is having on Canadian content and existing broadcasting subscriptions through satellite and cable.

In response, the Indian government ordered a full mobilisation and on 6 May 1919 declared war.

In response, the King announced the calling of the Estates-General for May 1789, the first time the body had been summoned since 1614.

This method was allegedly utilized by Russian secret services, over a period of two weeks on a cyberattack on Estonia in May 2007, in response to the removal of a Soviet era war memorial.

On May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, following President Warren Harding's death and in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.

Tito's response on 17 May suggested that the matter be settled at the meeting of the Cominform to be held that June.

The central line of the Kaddish in Jewish tradition is the congregation's response: י ְ ה ֵ א ש ְׁ מ ֵ ה ּ ר ַ ב ָּ א מ ְ ב ָ ר ַ ך ְ ל ְ ע ָ ל ַ ם ו ּ ל ְ ע ָ ל ְ מ ֵ י ע ָ ל ְ מ ַ י ָּ א ( Yehei shmëh rabba mevarakh lealam ulalmey almaya, " May His great name be blessed for ever, and to all eternity "), a public declaration of God's greatness and eternality.

In May 1981, the U. S. government closed the Libyan " people's bureau " ( embassy ) in Washington, D. C. and expelled the Libyan staff in response their conduct generally violating internationally accepted standards of diplomatic behavior.

On 15 May 2009, in response to their parties opposition to a proposed referendum to allow the President to seek a third term, the three members of RDP-Jama ' a and ANDP-Zaman Lahiya were replaced with ministers drawn from the MNSD-Nassara.

The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.

* King assassination riots: 125 cities in April and May, in response to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. including:

In response, on May 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and Richard Henry Lee, calling on colonies without a " government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs " to adopt new governments.

The government would go on to announce in January that UNBSJ would retain its liberal arts program and its association with UNB and the working group reported back to government in May, with its findings and government's response being made public in June.

On May 20, 1995, primarily as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, the United States Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic in front of the White House from the eastern edge of Lafayette Park to 17th Street.

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

At the end of the rainy season ( May or June in East Africa ), wildebeest migrate to dry-season areas in response to a lack of surface ( drinking ) water.

* May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

* May 20 – U. S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.

* May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

* May 12 – The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion.

* May 20 – Cola di Rienzo, a Roman commoner, declares himself Emperor of Rome in response to years of baronic power-struggles.

On 20 May Cola di Rienzo, a Roman commoner, declared himself Emperor of Rome in front of a huge crowd in response to what had been several years of power struggles among the upper-class barony.

In response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British government on the 16 May 1806, Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on the 21 November 1806, which brought into effect the Continental System.