Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

4th edition, May 1873

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

Until 1873, the Sedantag was moved to January 18 or Day of the Frankfurt Treaty ( May 10, 1871 ).

A cache of gold and other objects appeared in May 1873 ; Schliemann named it " Priam's Treasure ".

In March 1872 a German Imperial Naval Academy was created at Kiel for training officers, followed in May by the creation of a ' Machine Engineer Corps ', and in February 1873 a ' Medical Corps '.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

His father Jesse Root Grant died on June 29, 1873 whereas his mother Hannah Simpson Grant died on May 11, 1883.

* Work: A Story of Experience, a 1873 novel by Louisa May Alcott

* May 3 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark ( b. 1873 )

* May 11 – Max Reger, German composer ( b. 1873 )

* May 11 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist ( b. 1873 )

* May 25 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director ( b. 1873 )

* May 28 – Louis Agassiz, French zoologist and geologist ( d. 1873 )

* May 17 – Frederick C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard ( b. 1873 )

* May 20 – John Stuart Mill, British philosopher ( d. 1873 )

* May 12 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist ( d. 1873 )

* May 19 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist ( d. 1873 )

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

Anton " Tony " Joseph Cermak (, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933 ) was an American politician of Czech origin, mostly known as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933.

May 9, 1873

The previous Chief Justice, Salmon P. Chase, had died in office May 7, 1873.

Josip Plemelj ( December 11, 1873 – May 22, 1967 ) was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

May the Divine Speaker in Heaven bless this country with Sam Rayburn's continued service here for years to come.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

On May 16, 2006 AOL will launch a new service for AIM.

In May 1992 the Belorussian Military District was abolished, and on January 1, 1993 all service personnel on Belarussian soil were required to either take an oath of loyalty to Belarus, or leave.

His memorial service was held at St. Martins Episcopal Church on May 21, 1977 in New York City.

Eisenhower retired from active service on May 31, 1952, and resumed the university presidency, which he held until January 1953.

On 24 May 1967, an air service agreement was signed in Kabul.

At the end of World War II in Europe, in May 1945, the U. S. Army's Information and Educational Branch was ordered to establish an overseas university campus for demobilized American service men and women in Florence, Italy.

For his service, Prince Harry was decorated with the Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan by his aunt, the Princess Royal, at the Combermere Barracks in May 2008.

The four König class battleships were commenced between October 1911 and May 1912 and entered service in 1914 at a cost of 45 million GM, forming the other part of the Third Squadron of the High Seas Fleet.

After the defeat of Germany, the service was dissolved completely on 8 May 1920 under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which mandated the destruction of all its aircraft.

* 2002 People's Republic of China ( Guangdong and Shenzhen, chartered on May 14, are the first international service clubs to be granted permission by the government of the PRC to operate in mainland China )

In May 2009 Sparrow announced that it now has its own helicopter service based at its downtown Lansing hospital's new $ 2. 5 million helipad.

On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

On 27 May 2010, 7-Eleven announced that it had acquired Mobil's entire Australian network of 295 service stations.

The world's first national park service was established May 19, 1911 in Canada.

On 23 May 1909, the first manual telephone exchange with a 50 line capacity entered service in the Büyük Postane ( Grand Post Office ) of Sirkeci.

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

Under pressure from Prince Jordan I of Capua, to whom he had also rendered important service, he was elected on 24 May 1086, taking the throne name of Victor III, but his consecration did not take place until 9 May 1087 owing to the presence of the Antipope Clement III in Rome.

However, a decree of 29 May 1918 imposed obligatory military service for men of ages 18 to 40.

Steiner's father, Johann ( es ) Steiner ( 23 June 1829, Geras or Trabenreith, Irnfritz-Messern and lived Geras Abbey, Waldviertel – 1910, Horn ), left a position as a gamekeeper in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie ( 8 May 1834, Horn, Waldviertel – 1918, Horn ), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.

Most historical accounts state the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it " Santa Helena " after Helena of Constantinople.