On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

In May 1860 a significantly amended version of the Act was passed in both houses but was vetoed by President Buchanan.

: May 3, 1860: " Mr. Darwin has written a work which will constitute an era in geology & natural history to show that ... the descendants of common parents may become in the course of ages so unlike each other as to be entitled to rank as a distinct species, from each other or from some of their progenitors ".

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual () ( 29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms.

On 12 May 1860, Coleridge's dictionary plan was published, and research started.

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It became the capital of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) on 1 May 1860.

* Friedrich Engels, “ On Rifled Cannon ," articles from the New York Tribune, April, May and June, 1860, reprinted in Military Affairs 21, no.

* Tilley, Nannie May The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860 – 1929 ISBN 0-405-04728-2.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

* May 18 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer ( b. 1860 )

* May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician ( b. 1860 ).

* May 7 – Herman Webster Mudgett, American serial killer ( b. 1860 )

* May 17 – The German soccer club TSV 1860 München is founded.

* May 20 – Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado ( b. 1860 )

* May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( d. 1860 )

* May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer ( d. 1860 )

* May 21 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1860 )

* May 23 – Charles Barry, English architect ( d. 1860 )

On May 2, 1860 he tried to reach Garibaldi, who was going to launch his famous Expedition of the Thousand in southern Italy.

This famous general entered Palermo with his troops ( the “ Thousands ”) on May 27, 1860.

There had been many accidents when cast iron beams collapsed suddenly, such as the Dee bridge disaster of May 1847 and later failures such as the Wooton bridge collapse and the Bull bridge accident of 1860.

The town is famous for the landing of Garibaldi on 11 May 1860 ( the Expedition of the Thousand ) and for its Marsala wine.

On 11 May 1860 the landing in Marsala of Giuseppe Garibaldi took place.

Silas Talbot engineered an expedition to Puerto Plata harbor in the Colony of Santo Domingo, a possession of France's ally Spain, on May 11, 1800 ; sailors and marines from the USS Constitution under Lieutenant Isaac Hull captured the French privateer Sandwich in the harbor and spiked the guns in the Spanish fort.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.

A prolific and successful author in his own lifetime, his greatest success was however posthumous, with the television adaptations of his stories The Darling Buds of May and its sequels, My Uncle Silas and Love for Lydia

The first town meeting was held at the school-house near Nathaniel Kent's May 4, 1830, and the following officers elected: William Teall, supervisor ; Benjamin Healey, town clerk ; Wilkes Richardson, Isaac C. Pool, Silas Williams, assessors ; Martin L. Cook, John Matoon, over -.

Based on an introduction from Silas Deane, the Congress appointed him a Brigadier General on May 13, and sent him on to George Washington.

As of May 2012, the lineup featured Ed Wynne ( guitar, synths ), Ed's wife Brandi Wynne ( bass, keyboards ), Silas Wynne ( synths, keyboards ) and Oliver Seagle ( drums, percussion ).

Silas Wright, Jr. ( May 24, 1795August 27, 1847 ) was an American Democratic politician.

Silas Woodson ( May 18, 1819October 9, 1896 ) was the 21st Governor of Missouri, United States, between January 8, 1873 and January 12, 1875.

Some examples: Albert Einstein, Wyatt Earp, Betsy Ross, Buster Keaton, Emma Bovary, Silas Marner, Kenny Bunkport, Norman Conquest, May O ' Naise, Sam Francisco, Phillip Dirt, Polly Wanakraker, and Paul Bearer.

Known killings were the slaying of black laborer Silas Coleman May 25, 1935 and a WPA worker named Charles Poole May 13, 1936.

# Silas Montgomery ( May 27, 1773 )

William Wells Bent was born May 23, 1809 St. Louis, Missouri, a son of Silas Bent and his wife.

Rogers Wireless has dismantled their AMPS ( along with IS-136 ) network ; the networks were shut down May 31, 2007.

The Ninth Symphony was premiered on 7 May 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

Bonaparte's armada sailed from Toulon on 19 May 1798, making rapid progress through the Ligurian Sea and collecting more ships at Genoa before sailing southwards along the Sardinian coast, passing Sicily on 7 June.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

On May 5, 1940 Pope Pius XII named her a joint Patron Saint of Italy along with Saint Francis of Assisi.

After UNO's dissolution early in 1987, the Nicaraguan Resistance ( RN ) was organized along similar lines in May.

The Soviets, along with the Polish, captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.

Roldós was killed, along with his wife and the minister of defense, in an airplane crash in the southern province of Loja on May 24, 1981.

strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes ; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

In May 2012, it was announced that 3. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of Stanley Common ( which lies between the Stanley – Mount Pleasant road and the shoreline ) was made safe and had been opened to the public, opening up a three kilometer stretch of coastline and a further two kilometres of shoreline along Mullet's Creek.

In May 1801, Pasha Yusuf Karamanli demanded from the United States an increase in the tribute ( then $ 83, 000 ) which the US government had paid since 1796 for the protection of US commerce from piracy by Ottoman tribes along the North African coast.

On 10 May 2002, the second of the Potters Bar rail accidents occurred killing seven people ; the train was at high speed when it derailed and flipped into the air when one of the carriages slid along the platform where it came to rest.

The parties later agreed that Britain and America would launch a cross-channel invasion of France in May 1944, along with a separate invasion of southern France.

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

The King of Sweden presented the prize to Plant, Page, and Jones, along with John Bonham's daughter, in Stockholm in May 2006.

The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area ( the Free City of Danzig, Memel Territory, and Saar ), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on May 7 of that year.

* May 1999: a new psychoacoustic model ( gpsycho ) is released along with LAME 3. 0.

Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during " Þrimilci-mōnaþ " ( the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings ) along with many Celtic traditions.

Although plans to lift investment restrictions were announced in May 2012, the change awaited what administration officials said were detailed reporting requirements on U. S. companies doing business in Burma, along with creating mechanisms to prevent U. S. economic ties to the powerful Burmese military and individuals and companies involved in human rights abuses.

On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.