Ganganelli was elected Pope Clement XIV on 19 May 1769 and was installed on 4 June 1769, after a conclave that had been sitting since 15 February 1769, heavily influenced by the political manoeuvres of the ambassadors of Catholic sovereigns who were opposed to the Jesuits.

Cardinal Ganganelli was elected pope on 19 May 1769, largely due to support of the Bourbon courts, which had expected that he would suppress the Society of Jesus.

Beside practicing law, Jefferson represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Burgesses beginning on May 11, 1769 and ending June 20, 1775.

* May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer ( b. 1769 )

* May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist ( b. 1769 )

* May 24 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English lawyer ( d. 1769 )

On 2 May 1769, at El Rincón, near Río de la Hacha, they set their village afire, burning the church and two Spaniards who had taken refuge in it.

He was retained as travelling physician (" Livmedikus hos Kong Christian VII ") on 5 April 1768, and accompanied the entourage on the King ’ s foreign tour to Paris and London via Hannover from 6 May 1768 to 12 January 1769.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt ( September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859 ) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt ( 1767 – 1835 ).

On May 1, 1769, Boone began a two-year hunting expedition in Kentucky.

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

* Omphale is a tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Philibert Cardonne, premiered on 2 May 1769 at the theatre of the Paris Opera in the Tuileries

Lewis Hallam, Jr., a white actor using blackface makeup of American Company fame, brought blackface in this more specific sense to prominence as a theatrical device in the United States when playing the role of " Mungo ", an inebriated black man in The Padlock, a British play that premiered in New York City at the John Street Theatre on May 29, 1769.

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 6 May 1769 – 18 June 1824 ) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824.

Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier ( sources differ on his name ) ( August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832 ), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist.

Elizabeth died on 1 May 1769 while he was in prison and Charles Burney blamed Arne for his wife's early death due to the overwork and stress he had subjected her to.

In 1769, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year ; in May 1770 he presented to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions.

* May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor ( b. 1769 )

James Tuchet, 7th Earl of Castlehaven ( 15 April 1723 – 6 May 1769 ) was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell.

He succeeded his brother as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley 6 May 1769.

Two months later, in May 1769, the Duke married Elizabeth Wrottesley ( 1 November 1745 – 25 May 1822 ), daughter of the Reverend Sir Richard Wrottesley, Dean of Windsor.

On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.

Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.

Under leave to extend my remarks, I include the relevant portion of my newsletter, together with the text of the article from the U.S. News & World Report: `` your Congressman, Samuel S. Stratton, reports from Washington, May 1, 1961

Done at Washington in duplicate this fourth day of May 1960.

Measurements at 3.15 cm were obtained on 11 days spread over the interval May 3 to June 19, 1956, using the 50-foot reflector at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

Following the second Bonus Army march on Washington D. C. a modification of the CCC program through Executive Order 6129 on 11 May now included work opportunities for veterans.

He was videotaped when he spoke at the dedication of WRC-TV's new studios in Washington, D. C., on May 21, 1958.

* " If Malaria's the Problem, DDT's Not the Only Answer ", a Washington Post column by entomologist May Berenbaum

The United States played a facilitative role in the peace talks in Washington during the months leading up to the May 1991 fall of the Mengistu regime.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once ( by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington ).

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

Dummer presented the idea to the public at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D. C. on 7 May 1952.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

" On May 5, 1792, Madison told Washington, " with respect to the spirit of party that was taking place ... I was sensible of its existence ".

Slidell returned to Washington in May 1846, having been rebuffed by the Mexican government.

Hoover maintained strong support in Congress until his death at his Washington, D. C., home on May 2, 1972, from a heart attack attributed to cardio-vascular disease.