President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, likely from an illness he caught from Alcott two years earlier.

In May 1862, he was sent to Paris, so that he could serve as ambassador to France.

*, was a civilian steamship purchased by the US Navy from a prize court 4 September 1862 and was decommissioned and sold 8 May 1869

William and Jane had two daughters, Jane Alice ( Jenny ), born January 1861, who developed epilepsy in her teens, and Mary ( May ) ( March 1862 – 1938 ), who became the editor of her father's works, a prominent socialist, and an accomplished designer and craftswoman.

* May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1862 )

* May 30 – George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer ( b. 1862 )

* May 5 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player ( d. 1862 )

After the secession of the southern states, the House of Representatives on May 6, 1862, and the Senate on June 20 finally approved it.

Cinco de mayo is not Mexico's " Independence Day ", but rather commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

He died on May 6, 1862 at age 44.

Place and Date: At Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

* First Battle of Winchester, May 1862

His performance was praised by Grant and Halleck and after the battle, he was promoted to major general of volunteers, effective May 1, 1862.

* Major General of Volunteers – 1 May 1862

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Andrew made preparations for a war against Austria, but the child king died on 7 May 1205, thus Andrew inherited the throne.

It was in the military prison in Bonne-Nouvelle, a district of Rouen, from February to May, that he did the work that made his reputation.

Edward Dwelly in Bealltuinn ( 1911 ) describes a 1 May custom of his day, practised in the Scottish Highlands, where young people met on the moors, lit a bonfire and made an oatmeal cake toasted at the embers.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

A full three minute version of the countdown music was made available on BBC News Online and David Lowe's own after a remix on 16 May 2006.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

The Emperor stimulated private building by promising householders gifts of land from the Imperial estates in Asiana and Pontica, and on 18 May 332, he announced that, as in Rome, free distributions of food would be made to the citizens.

In May 1871, he left London to live in Zaandam, in the Netherlands, where he made twenty-five paintings ( and the police suspected him of revolutionary activities ).

To celebrate " his Majesty's Return to his Parliament " May 29 was made a public holiday, popularly known as Oak Apple Day.

In May 2012, the club made a formal bid to purchase Battersea Power Station, with a view to developing the site into a 60, 000 seater stadium.

Earl Mason, hired from Inland Steel effective on May 1996, immediately made an impact as the new CFO.

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo ( no ropes or protection ) ascent of this formation.

In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.

" He made a surprise guest appearance at David Gilmour's 29 May concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

Haiti was declared an empire by its ruler, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who made himself Jacques I, in 20 May 1805.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

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.