Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

* May 27 – Thursday October Christian II, Pitcairn Islands leader ( b. 1820 )

* May 1 – Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti ( b. 1820 )

* May 15 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, first ruler of Romania ( b. 1820 )

* May 30 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law, replacing the Missouri Compromise ( of 1820 ), which had already been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States.

* May 11, 1820 – The HMS Beagle ( the ship that later takes young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage ) is launched.

* 1820: John Clare 13 July 1793-20 May 1864 publishes Poems Descriptive of Rural life 1820

* May 28 – Anne Brontë, English author ( b. 1820 )

* May 21 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman ( d. 1820 )

" The auction was held at Bullocks in London on 15 May 1820, and raised £ 400 ( worth the equivalent of over £ 26, 000 in 2010 ).

Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( Caroline Amelia Elizabeth ; later Queen Caroline ; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821 ) was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death.

On May 15, 1820, Congress authorized an extension to St. Louis, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, and on March 3, 1825, across the Mississippi to Jefferson City, Missouri.

Phillips County is Arkansas's seventh county, formed on May 1, 1820, and named for Sylvanus Phillips, the area's first-known white settler and representative to the first Territorial Legislature of the Arkansas Territory.

Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 ) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.

Ferries crossed the river as early as May 20, 1820 when Isaac Canby was licensed for a ferry across the river and another to cross the creek.

He does say that in May 1820 when Trigg became a county, a commission was established to choose a county seat.

With this motivation, the new foundation stone of Magdalen Hall was laid at the new site on 3 May 1820, and the Hall's migration was complete by 1822.

The land upon which the town stands was entered on the 13th of May, 1820 by William Simmons.

During this expedition, which lasted from May 1819 to November 1820, Sabine noted that changes in magnetic intensity had taken place since his previous visit.

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe ( May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820 ) was a British-born American neoclassical architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol, along with his work on the Baltimore Basilica, the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States.

Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française ( May 27, 1820 – January 2, 1904 ), was a French princess and Salon holder.

* Spain ( 1817 ): A Treaty was signed with Spain under which she agreed to abolish the slave trade north of the Equator and suppress it totally by 30 May 1820 for which the British government paid Spain 400, 000 pounds ;

The first was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Raymond Dessalines, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to King Henry I, Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 and 1820 and Member of the Royal Chamber of Public Instruction between 1818 and 1820, who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. Henry on 1 May 1811 and was killed by the revolutionaries at Cap-Henri on 10 October 1820.

The president forwarded the proposal to Congress – which then had 60 days to approve or reject the document – in May 2010, along with a report noting concerns raised by the Justice Department and restating the issues noted by Governor deJongh.

The cover to the right, for instance, was mailed on 6 May 1938 from Vienna to Freiburg im Breisgau, then was forwarded to Hamburg.

The 10 May 1962 armistice limited RLAF operations, with the T-6s becoming non-operational, although Lao aviation cadets were forwarded to Lopburi, Thailand for T-28 training in June 1962.

A Li Baiyu of Shanxi forwarded a letter to the CCP Propaganda Department on May 1, 1979, which urged for the revival of difangzhi.

For example, in May 1940, the base of the U. S. Pacific Fleet that was stationed on the west coast of the United States was forwarded to an " advanced " position at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

Following the resignation of Díaz from the presidency on the 25th May 1911 after the signing of the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, Madero became the highest political leader of the country.

On May 5, Abashidze was forced to flee Georgia as mass demonstrations in Batumi called for his resignation and Russia increased their pressure by deploying Security Council secretary Igor Ivanov.

The 16 May 1877 crisis eventually led to the resignation of royalist Marshal MacMahon in January 1879.

In the late 1990s, however, Indonesia was the country hardest hit by the East Asian Financial Crisis which led to popular protests and Suharto's resignation on 21 May 1998.

" Following the Indonesian riots of May 1998 and the resignation of President Suharto, several political reforms were set in motion via amendments to the Constitution of Indonesia, which resulted in changes to all branches of government.

( His letter of resignation, sent from Cairo, Illinois, was accepted by the War Department on May 14.

Postwar social and political instability, fueled by economic uncertainty and the collapse of the Lebanese currency, led to the resignation of Prime Minister Omar Karami, also in May 1992, after less than 2 years in office.

" Following Bruning's resignation in May 1932 Pacelli, like the new Catholic chancellor Franz von Papen, wondered if the Centre Party should look to the Right for a coalition, " that would correspond to their principles '.

He died in Chicago on May 5, 1871, two days after his resignation.

* May 25 – Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz ; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.

He became Chancellor of West Germany on 16 May 1974, after Brandt's resignation in the wake of an espionage scandal.

In May 1839, Melbourne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis.

When Schleicher brought down Groener in May 1932, Groener made a point in his resignation speech of praising Raeder for his " correct " behaviour as opposed to Army officers like former protégé Schleicher who had undermined his leadership and plotted against him.

Raeder offered his resignation rather than accept the scrapping of the capital ships and formally resigned from the Kriegsmarine in May 1943.

She announced her resignation in May 2012 after being appointed to the new cabinet appointed by President François Hollande.

Some 200 Central African Republic soldiers mutinied in Bangui in May 1996, demanding back pay and the resignation of President Ange-Félix Patassé.

When Winston Churchill came to power after the resignation of Chamberlain in May 1940, Canaris ' hopes were renewed, given the new Prime Minister's strong position against Hitler.

This process was triggered for the first time on May 31, 2010, when Horst Köhler resigned the office, as all his predecessors ( with the exception of Heinrich Lübke, who announced in 1968 that he would resign the following year, his resignation taking effect after the regular election of his successor and just three months before the scheduled end of his term of office ) had served their terms in full.

The issue came to a head in May 2006 after the sudden resignation of the Liberal Party leader, Robert Doyle, when Kennett announced he would contemplate standing in a by-election for the seat vacated by Doyle and offering himself as party leader.

On May 23, the Magic's plans were disrupted by the abrupt resignation of General Manager and Chief Operating Officer John Weisbrod.

In May 1888, nine members wrote to Whistler to demand his resignation.

Seton drafted his written resignation on January 29, 1915, but he did not send it to BSA until May.