In 1848, Abby May insisted they leave Concord, which she called " cold, heartless, brainless, soulless ".

The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).

Slavery was abolished on the island on 28 May 1848 at the initiative of Victor Schoelcher.

These demonstrations reached a climax when on 15 May 1848, workers from the secret societies broke out in armed uprising against the anti-labor and anti-democratic policies being pursued by the Constituent Assembly and the Provisional Government.

* 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.

The colony of New Brunswick soon followed on May 1848 when Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head brought in a more balanced representation of Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Executive Council and ceded more powers to that body.

* May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter ( b. 1848 )

* May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author ( b. 1848 )

* May 25 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1848 )

* May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral ( b. 1848 )

** The May Uprising in Dresden ( the last of the German revolutions of 1848 ) begins.

* May 30 – Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin ( d. 1848 )

Revolutionary barricades during the May Uprising in Dresden ( 1848 )

Dresden was a centre of the German Revolutions in 1848 with the May Uprising, which cost human lives and damaged the historic town of Dresden.

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* Battle of Santa Lucia, 6 May 1848 – the Carabinieri Corps was awarded its first Bronze Medal of Military Valor

The year 1848 brought to the fore a new generation of Czech authors who followed in the footsteps of Mácha, and published their work in the new almanac Máj ( May ) ( e. g. Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá and Jan Neruda ).

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

From October 1848 until May 1849, around 300 Bábís ( later rising to 600 ), led by Mullá Muhammad ‘ Alí of Bárfarúsh, surnamed Quddús, and Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru ' i, defended themselves against the attacks of local villagers and members of the shah's army under the command of Prince Mihdí Qulí Mirzá.

John Snow of London published articles from May 1848 onwards " On Narcotism by the Inhalation of Vapours " in the London Medical Gazette.

Prince Metternich was appointed by Francis I to the positions of Hofkanzler and Staatskanzler ( 25 May 1821 to 13 March 1848 ).

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (; February 5, 1848 – May 12, 1907 ) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans ().

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903 ) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death.

The music was composed by the German immigrant Fredrik Pacius, with ( original Swedish ) words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and was performed for the first time on 13 May 1848.

Oola railway station opened on 9 May 1848 and finally closed on 9 September 1963.

However, on 14 May, with considerable skill Marshal Tallard managed to bring 10, 000 reinforcements and vast supplies and munitions through the difficult terrain, whilst outmanoeuvring Baron Thüngen, the Imperial general who sought to block his path.

The relation he there gives of the miracle is as follows: " On the nones ( or 7th ) of May, about the third hour, ( or nine in the morning ,) a vast luminous body, in the form of a cross, appeared in the heavens, just over the holy Golgotha, reaching as far as the holy mount of Olivet, ( that is, almost two English miles in length ,) seen not by one or two persons, but clearly and evidently by the whole city.

* 1934: Just one of many notable storms in the 1930s, the storm of 9 – 11 May 1934 began in the far north-western Great Plains and proceeded east over the northern tier of states and parts of Canada and was notable for removing the vast majority of the soil deposited since the last Ice Age over some parts of its path.

* May 9-Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gives the " vast wasteland speech " to the National Association of Broadcasters, telling them that they could do a better job of serving " the public interest.

On VE Day – 8 May 1945 – the Palace was the centre of British celebrations, with the King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret appearing on the balcony, with the Palace's blacked-out windows behind them, to the cheers from a vast crowd on The Mall.

Darwin Mounds describes a vast field of undersea sand mounds situated off the north west coast of Scotland, first discovered in May 1998, they provide a unique habitat for ancient deep water coral reefs.

On May 14, 2007 the remaining 75 % of Endemol shares has been bought by a consortium, Edam Acquisition, led by Mediaset, the company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's family, and including the investment company Cyrte, whose vast majority of shares is owned by the original co-founder John de Mol.

* In honor of Persichetti's vast influence on American music, on May 19, 1984 he was awarded the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit.

On May 17, 1781 the Church of St. Bartholomäus and vast parts of the town burned down.

On May 3, 1533, Pizarro ordered the vast accumulation of golden objects melted down, a process that took many weeks.

It flows for 480km into the Bangweulu Swamps, which are part of Lake Bangweulu, and by the end of the rainy season in May, it delivers a flood which recharges the swamps and inundates a vast floodplain to the southeast, supporting the Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem.

At the same time that Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde was making fast and vast advances into republican territory from the west ( his forces had entered Valencia on May 3, 1812 ), Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Fort along with its ammunition stores on June 30, when the royalist prisoners held there managed to take it over and attack the small number of troops in the city.

In May 2012, Cipla made headlines worldwide by slashing prices on several cancer drugs previously priced far out of reach to the vast majority of the world's population ( cancer drugs are generally the most expensive category of pharmaceutical ).

In May 1998, the EPA concluded that there was “ reasonable expectation ” that the facility would contain the vast majority of the waste interred there.

Over 17 days, his command marched 800 miles, repeatedly engaged the Confederates, disabled two railroads, captured many prisoners and horses, and destroyed vast amounts of property, finally ending in Baton Rouge on May 2. Historian John D. Winters in The Civil War in Louisiana ( 1963 ) reports that Grierson's raid " struck fear in the hearts of the citizens and somewhat demoralized the Confederate forces who failed to stop the move.

* In honor of Harnick's vast influence on American music, on May 19, 1984 he was awarded the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit.

In the summer of 2012 after several months of negotiations Ivan Savvidi became the new major shareholder of PAOK after investing 12 milion euros, the 2 of them were given at the club as a loan in May 2012. The new shareholder of PAOK established a new financial policy at the club in order to pay off the vast debts which were created by the previous administrations and so the club would from now on use players from the academies rather than buying foreign players with doubtful quality. PAOK board appointed the young and talented Greek coach Giorgos Donis after terminating the contract with László Bölöni due to a bad season. PAOK enter the Europa League 3rd Qualification Round and with an 0-2 away and a 4-1 home win over Bnei Yehuda was qualifed for the Play – Off Round where the club faced Rapid Wien but was eliminated after a 2-1 home win and a 3-0 away defeat. The elimination was a serious financial blow to the club since the economic profits from a qualification would cover over half of the team's budget from the 2012-2013 season.

The Allied argument for retracting Geneva convention protection from the German soldiers was similar to that of Nazi Germany vis à vis Polish and Yugoslav soldiers ; using the " disappearance of the Third Reich to argue that the convention no longer operated-that POW status did not apply to the vast majority who had passed into captivity on and after May 5 ".

While the vast majority of the material for The New Normal had already been demoed by late 2003, with some songs first performed live as far back as May 2002, Cog did not have the kind of financial backing needed to record their album as they desired.

When the seat of government was moved from Bonn to Berlin in 1999, an extensive " Holocaust memorial ", designed by architect Peter Eisenman, was planned as part of the vast development of new official buildings in the district of Berlin-Mitte ; it was opened on 10 May 2005.

Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming published by Viking Press ( New York ) in May 2007, argues that a vast world-changing “ movement with no name ” is now forming, which Hawken believes will prevail.

In May 2000, in order to unify their company, Electronics Boutique changed the vast majority of its current EB and EB Gameworld stores to the name EB Games.

On May 21, 1940, the First Army was one of the armies trapped in a vast pocket with their backs to the sea that would eventually result in the Dunkirk evacuations.

Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, 1795Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet ( 10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835 ) was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.

With the prospect of the plague, as well as war with England looming, the English ambassador commented in May 1664: there are dead this last weeke to the number 338 at Amsterdam and if the plague thus increases within, and a warre with His Majestie without, there will be little need of that vast new towne which they are making there.