As a result the pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States on May 10, 1801 and the First Barbary War began.

In May 1801 the Secretary of War Henry Dearborn announced that the president had appointed Major Jonathan Williams, grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin, to direct organizing to establish such a school.

* May 5 – Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom ( to take effect on 1 January 1801 ).

* May 2 – Novalis, German poet ( d. 1801 )

* May 23 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer ( d. 1801 )

On 15 May 1792 Frantisek Martin Pelcl ( Pelzel ) ( 1734 – 1801 ) was named the professor of the chair.

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.

The French intervention in the Swiss civil strife, a breach of the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ) between France and the Holy Roman Empire which guaranteed Swiss sovereignty, was taken as a pretext by the United Kingdom to break the peace of Amiens and declare war on France on 18 May 1803.

Julius Plücker ( 16 June 1801 – 22 May 1868 ) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Pierre François Henri Labrouste () ( 11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875 ) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture.

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Seward was born in Florida, New York, on May 16, 1801, one of five children of Samuel Sweezy Seward and his wife Mary Jennings Seward.

* William Henry Seward, Sr. ( May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872 ), born in Florida, was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator, and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

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.

Johann Georg Baiter ( May 31, 1801 – October 10, 1877 ) was a Swiss philologist and textual critic.

The choice of Charles Cameron as Civil Commissioner in May 1801 did not remove these uncertainties, even though his presence assured the Maltese of the protection of the Empire.

The British brig-sloop Speedy's ( 14 guns, 54 men ) defeat of the Spanish xebec-frigate El Gamo ( 32 guns, 319 men ) on 6 May 1801 is generally regarded as one of the most remarkable single-ship actions in naval history.

* May 25-Johann Nestroy, singer and actor ( b. 1801 )

Karl Philipp Stamitz (; baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801 ), who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry ( his mother was German ), and a violin, viola and viola d ' amore virtuoso.

When Napoleon came to power Kellermann was named successively senator ( 1800 ), president of the Senate ( 1801 ), honorary Marshal of France ( 19 May 1804 ), and title of Duke of Valmy ( 1808 ).

Eugène Burnouf ( April 8, 1801 – May 28, 1852 ) was an eminent French scholar and orientalist who made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform.

* May 10, 1801: The pascha of Tripoli declared war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down

** Christopher Ellery ( DR ), from May 6, 1801

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

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.

During the War of Independence, on May 3, 1920, Birinci Ferik Mustafa Fevzi Pasha ( Çakmak ) was appointed the Minister of National Defence, Mirliva İsmet Pasha ( İnönü ) was appointed the Minister of the Chief of General Staff of the government of GNA.

* May 26 – Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman ( b. 1822 )

* May – Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman ( Turkish ) grand vizier

* May 20 – July 9 – Zarafa, a giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to King Charles X of France, the first to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, walks from Marseilles to Paris.

* May 11 – At the Battle of Djerba, the Ottoman fleet, commanded by under Piyale Pasha, overwhelms a large joint European ( mainly Spanish ) fleet, sinking about half its ships.

In May 1840 a firman issued by Ibrahim Pasha forbade the Jews to pave the passageway in front of the Wall.

* Dorothy Anderson Baker Pasha: Misconduct and Mischance Michael Russell Publishing Ltd ( May 1999 ) ISBN 0-85955-246-2 ISBN 978-0859552462

* May 26-Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman historian and legal writer ( born 1822 )

Pasha was arrested on 19 May 1914 and tried for treason and sentenced to death.

Consequently, on May 10, 1801, the Pasha declared war on the U. S., not through any formal written documents but in the customary Barbary manner of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U. S. Consulate.

* Alexander Bogoridi ( Aleko Pasha ; 18 May 1879-26 April 1884 )

He took Acre after a severe siege on May 27, 1832, occupied Damascus, defeated an Ottoman army at Homs on July 8 defeated another Ottoman army at Beilan on July 29, invaded Asia Minor, and finally routed the grand vizier Reşid Mehmet Pasha at Konya on December 21.

# At the Libyan Embassy, Cairo, 6 June 1955 ( divorced 20 May 1958 ), Aliya Khanum Effendi ( 1913 Guney, Egypt ), daughter of Abdul-Qadir Lamlun Asadi Pasha.

Muhammad Ali Pasha received Roberts in Alexandria on 16 May 1839, shortly before his return to Britain.

Mehmed Pasha Kukavica mosque was dynamited on 28 May 1992.

In May 1879, the British Empire, and France began pressuring the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II to depose Ismail Pasha, and this was done on June 26, 1879.

Abbas Hilmi Pasha finally accepted the new order of things and formally abdicated on May 12, 1931.

However, unknown to Jefferson, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war against the United States on May 10, 1801.

Greece occupied Smyrna / İzmir on 15 May 1919, while Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( later Atatürk ), who was to become the leader of the Turkish opposition to the Treaty of Sèvres, landed in Samsun on May 19, 1919, an action that is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence.