Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

After May 1712, Telemann also served as administrator and treasurer of the Haus Braunfels, administrator of a charitable foundation, and organizer of a tobacco collegium.

St Pius V was beatified by Pope Clement X in the year 1672, and was later canonized by Pope Clement XI ( 1700 – 21 ) on 24 May 1712.

* May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher ( b. 1712 )

* May 13 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( d. 1712 )

* May 19 – John Stanley, English composer ( b. 1712 )

Coventry was incorporated in May 1712.

In May 1712, Villars prepared to take the offensive.

Richard Simon ( 13 May 1638 – 11 April 1712 ) was a French Oratorian, influential advanced biblical critic, orientalist, and controversialist.

Charles John Stanley ( 17 January 1712 – 19 May 1786 ) was an English composer and organist.

* May 13-Richard Simon, Biblical commentator ( died 1712 )

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos ( 334 lines ), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version ( 794 lines ).

* Roy A. Sundstrom, ‘ Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin ( 1645 – 1712 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009, accessed 25 Jan 2011.

* May 19 – John Stanley, composer ( b. 1712 )

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff ( May 13, 1712 – February 18, 1772 ), Danish statesman, who came of a very ancient Mecklenburg family, was the son of Joachim Engelke von Bernstorff, Chamberlain to the elector of Hanover.

* Letters 1 – 21: The journey from Isfahan to France, which lasts almost 13 months ( from 19 March 1711 to 4 May 1712 ).

* Letters 22 – 89: Paris in the reign of Louis XIV, 3 years in all ( from May 1712 to September 1715 ).

Count Anders Johan von Höpken ( 31 March 1712, Stockholm – 9 May 1789, Stockholm ), Swedish statesman, was the son of Daniel Niklas von Höpken, one of Arvid Horn's most determined opponents and a founder of the Hat party.

* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 8 February 1706 – 17 May 1712

* Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon 17 May 1712 – 14 October 1715

* George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland 15 May 1712 – 12 November 1714

* The Duke of Beaufort 6 March 1712 – 24 May 1714

* Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford 29 November 1704 – 10 May 1712

* Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury 10 May 1712 – 12 November 1714

His episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

On the morning of May 29, 1453 the sultan ordered the call of Azan ( call to prayer ).

The council was ordered by the Emperor and Pope to convene in Mantua on May 23, 1537.

On May 25, 1577, King Philip II of Spain ordered by royal cédula the preparation of a general description of Spain's holdings in the Indies.

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

At the end of World War II in Europe, in May 1945, the U. S. Army's Information and Educational Branch was ordered to establish an overseas university campus for demobilized American service men and women in Florence, Italy.

On May 16, 1996, U. S. President Bill Clinton ordered the removal of the American mines.

Consequently, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung was soon suppressed and Marx was ordered to leave the country on 16 May.

In May 2003, in honor of the birth of a son and heir to the throne, the king ordered the release of 9, 000 prisoners and the reduction of 38, 000 sentences.

The Federal Court ordered on 23 May 2007 that Macquarie University Union Ltd be wound up.

In May 1954, Stroessner ordered his troops into action against the government after Chaves had tried to dismiss one of his subordinates.

On 4 May 1408, Gregory XII convened his cardinals at Lucca and ordered them not to leave the city under any pretext.

From March to May 1999, he ordered the secret infiltration of Kashmiri forces in the Kargil district.

In 1967, Egypt reinforced its military presence in Sinai, renewed the prohibition of Israeli shipping using Egyptian territorial waters, ( including the Suez Canal and western part of the Straits of Tiran ), and on 16 May ordered the UNEF out of Sinai with immediate effect.

Challenger itself was replaced by the, which first launched in May 1992 and was constructed from structural spares that had been ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.

In May 1967 President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the UN peacekeeping forces out of Sinai, including the Suez Canal area.

* May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered by Hitler to “ fight to the last man .”

Elements of the Ohio Army National Guard were ordered to Kent State University by Ohio's governor Jim Rhodes to quell anti-Vietnam War protests, culminating in their shooting into a crowd of students on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine.

Sheridan losses were heavy during normal operations, largely due to land mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President Richard Nixon ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other cavalry squadrons, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( Blackhorse ) was thrown into the fight.

According to the 1463 Chronica Austriae by chronicler Thomas Ebendorfer the duke on 23 May 1420, at the behest of the Church, ordered the imprisonment and forcible conversion of the Jews.

Promoted to lieutenant on 21 May 1799, Somers was detached from United States on 13 June 1801 and ordered to Boston on 30 July 1801.

On 5 May 1803, Somers was ordered to Baltimore, Maryland, to man, fit out, and command, and when that schooner was ready for sea, to sail her to the Mediterranean.

* On 10 May 2012, the Canadian Forces announced that it had made a " terrible mistake " by publishing a booklet with a photograph bearing the likeness of convicted murderer and rapist Russell Williams in the background, and ordered 4, 000 copies of the book destroyed.