( Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813.

When the Argentine envoy, Nicolás de Herrera, arrived in May 1813, he learned to his dismay that all decisions had to await the meeting of a Paraguayan congress in late September.

# John Fitzgerald Lee ( May 5, 1813 – June 17, 1840 )

* May 18 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher ( b. 1813 )

* May 4 – David Livingstone, Scottish explorer of Africa ( b. 1813 )

* May 9 – John Sedgwick, Union general, American Civil War ( b. 1813 )

* May 7 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France ( d. 1813 )

After the defeats at Lützen ( 2 May 1813 ) and Bautzen ( 21 May 1813 ), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spirit into the Allies ; and at the conference of Trachenberg he drew up the general plan for the campaign which began after the expiration of the Truce of Plaswitz.

* Battle of Fort George, May 27, 1813

Napoleon inflicted 40, 000 casualties on the Allies at Lützen ( 2 May 1813 ) and Bautzen ( 20 – 21 May 1813 ).

David Livingstone ( 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873 ) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa.

* Jacques Delille ( 22 June 1738 – 1 May 1813 ), poet

Residents ' devotion to the cause during the War of 1812 led to the formation of the Petersburg Volunteers — who distinguished themselves in action at the Siege of Fort Meigs on May 5, 1813.

Hostilities broke out in 1811 with the Native American tribes on the frontier, and the territorial capital was moved to Corydon on May 1, 1813, after Pennington suggested it would be safer than Vincennes.

After Vincennes, Corydon was the second capital of the Indiana Territory from May 1, 1813, until the establishment of the state of Indiana.

Corydon became the second capital of the Indiana Territory on May 1, 1813, when it was moved there from Vincennes to be more centralized with the population of the newly reorganized Indiana Territory.

Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to create many new municipalities: Hamilton Township on February 5, 1813 ; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854 ; Absecon on May 1, 1854 ; South Atlantic City ( now Margate City ) on September 7, 1885 ; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889 ; Linwood on February 20, 1889 ; Somers Point on April 24, 1886 ; Longport on March 7, 1898 ; Ventnor City on March 17, 1903 ; and Northfield on March 21, 1905.

In the Battle of Lützen ( German: Schlacht von Großgörschen, May 2, 1813 ), Napoleon I of France halted the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia.

Judge Woolsey said, ‘ It is only with the normal person that the law is concerned .’ May I repeat, he said, “ It is only with the normal person that the law is concerned .” Our American children are for the most part normal children.

946 before the House Resources Committee May 16, 2000, Woolsey said:

# George Woolsey was born May 2, 1861

Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey ( 1782 – 18 May 1838 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 and battles on the Great Lakes.

In May 1814, after a winter of feverish preparation for the third summer of campaigning, Woolsey went to the supply depot at Oswego to pick up guns, cables, and other supplies needed at Sackett's Harbor.

Commodore Woolsey died May 18, 1838 at Utica, New York.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.

* May 28 – The 1926 coup d ' état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal installs the Ditadura Nacional ( National Dictatorship ), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.

* May 8 – 31 – United States Navy Curtiss floatplane NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland ( departs May 16 ) and the Azores.

* May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt .- Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

* May – Alexander wins a major victory against the Persians commanded by the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodes, in the Battle of the Granicus near the Sea of Marmara.

* 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.

On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike.

The city was again occupied briefly from 23 April to 18 May 1643 by Parliamentarians commanded by Sir William Waller but it was in 1645 that the city saw most action.

The Bavarians suffered a severe reverse near Braunau ( 9 May 1743 ), and now an Anglo-allied army commanded by King George II, which had been formed on the lower Rhine on the withdrawal of Maillebois, was advancing southward to the Main and Neckar country.

The army was very briefly commanded by Maj. Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith on May 31, 1862, following the wounding of Gen. J. E. Johnston, while President Jefferson Davis drafted orders to place Gen. Robert E. Lee in command the following day.

A British and Portuguese army, commanded by Marshal Beresford, endeavoured to retake it and on May 16, 1811 defeated a relieving force at Albuera.

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

* May 1863, commanded USS Monongahela.

* May 1863, commanded the USS Pensacola.

* William Hood Simpson ( May 18, 1888 – August 15, 1980 ), a lieutenant general commanded the U. S. Ninth Army in northern Europe, during World War II.

In May 1798, Ball commanded the in the Mediterranean.

Hoylet Framingham commanded eight British ( RHA: Ross, Bull, Macdonald ; RA: Lawson, Gardiner, Greene, Douglas, May ) and one Portuguese ( Arriaga ) six-gun artillery batteries.

He then commanded the 54th Field Artillery Brigade, in training until October 3, 1918 ; served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, until November 7, 1918 ; and again commanded the 54th Field Artillery Brigade, at Chateau Reynel and elsewhere until May 22, 1919.

Holbrook returned to the United States in May 1919 and commanded Camp Bragg, North Carolina, from May 16, 1919 until July 1, 1919, when he became the head of the Artillery Department of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.