By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.

In Rømer's position as royal mathematician, he introduced the first national system for weights and measures in Denmark on 1 May 1683.

* May 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer ( b. 1683 )

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum.

His paternal grandparents were Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 29 September 1683 – Pau, 3 October 1760 ) and wife ( m. Pau, 1 May 1707 ) Marie du Pucheu dite de La Place ( Pau, 6 February 1686 – Pau, 5 October 1773 ), daughter of Jacques du Pucheu dit de La Place and wife Françoise de Labasseur.

The museum opened on 24 May 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper.

On 31 May 1700, he married his first wife, Louise Dorothea, Princess of Prussia ( 1680 – 1705 ), daughter of Frederick I of Prussia ( 1657 – 1713 ) and Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Kassel ( 1661 – 1683 ).

In May 1683 he was nominated to the privy council of Scotland.

The rise period witnessed Sultanate of Rûm's defeat against the Mongols in the 14th century and was followed by the Growth of the Ottoman Empire ( 29 May 1453 – 11 / 12 September 1683 ) — a period referred as Pax Ottomana, the economic and social stability attained in the conquered provinces of the Ottoman Empire, by some historians.

James Allen was born on 4 May 1683 in Hornsey ( a village which was later absorbed into north London ) but later moved to Sussex.

Jonathan Wild ( baptised 6 May 1683 – 24 May 1725 ) was perhaps the most infamous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of them.

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton KG PC ( 25 October 1683 – 6 May 1757 ) was an Irish and English politician.

Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich ( 9 May 1683 – 16 October 1767 ) () was a Danish-born German soldier-engineer who became a field marshal and political figure in the Russian Empire.

Jones was born in 1683 or 1684 at Penboyr, Carmarthenshire, and christened on May 1 1684.

* Eleonore Dorothea ( 14 August 1674 – 26 May 1683 ).

* Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke 20 May 1675 – 29 August 1683

May 26, 1683, Saunders sold the remaining portion of his patent, Tascamcatick, to Joannes Wendell, and the latter afterward purchased another piece of woodland which extended northward along the river to a creek called by the Indians Paensick kill.

May Pen was established as a plantation settlement by the British between 1660 and 1683 on a crossing point of the Rio Minho River.

From May 1, 1683, King Christian V of Denmark introduced an office to oversee weights and measures, a justervæsen, first led by Ole Rømer.

His feast day, which was not in the Tridentine Calendar, was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1683, for celebration on 10 May as a Double, a rank altered in 1960 to that of Third-Class Feast.

Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.

Angered by the non-appearance of Charles, he welcomed Odo at the Diet of Worms in May 895, and again supported Odo's claim to the West Francian throne.

Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

In May 2006, Lara led the West Indies to successful One-Day series victories against Zimbabwe and India.

As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics ( alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others ) and remembered as ' The Last of the Great Romantics ' and ' The Bard of Auburn '.

The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.

He returned with haste to the West, reaching Emesa by 10 May 290, and Sirmium on the Danube by 1 July 290.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

On May 6, 1993 ( the day the murder victims were found ), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department to determine if she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer.

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

In May 2009, Hamlet opened with Jude Law in the title role at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre.

In 1962 the United States pressured the Netherlands into secret talks with Indonesia which in August 1962 produced the New York Agreement, and Indonesia assumed administrative responsibility for West Irian on 1 May 1963.

The second ( the Summer Battle of Osaka ; Musashi's fifth battle ) resulted in the total defeat of Toyotomi Hideyori's Army of the West by Ieyasu's Army of the East in May 1615.

On 31 May 1989, Wales played its first international game against West Germany at the National Stadium in a World Cup qualifying match, which ended goalless.

Prior to the 19th century distinctive May day celebrations were widespread throughout West Cornwall, and are being revived in St. Ives and Penzance.

At the end of the 1998 – 99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67, 000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8, 000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants.

* The Play What I Wrote ( Herself )-Wyndham's Theatre, West End ( 30 January 2002, 5 May 2002, 2 January 2003 )

In May 2012, Patinkin delivered the opening speech at the " Annual Convention of the Israeli Left ", where he recounted his experiences during a visit to the West Bank with members of the " breaking the silence " organization.

As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.

Mathias Rust ( born 1 June 1968 in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany ) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing on May 28, 1987, near Red Square in Moscow.