Historical Events In May - 01

1743  Plague in Italy on this day in history.   

1747  On this day in history measles in Thirteen Colonies   

1751  1st American cricket match is played on this day in history.   

1753  On May - 01 publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.   

1755  Smallpox in North America on this day in history.   

1756  On May - 01 france & Austria sign alliance   

1757  On this day in history austria &France divide Prussia   

1757  Austria & France divide Prussia on this day in history.   

1759  British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France on this day in history.   

1759  On May - 01 jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor   

1759  Measles in North America on May - 01.   

1761  Influenza in North America, West Indies on this day in history.   

1763  On May - 01 smallpox in North America, present-day Pittsburgh area.   

1764  Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol) on this day in history.   

1769  On May - 01 the birth of Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington   

1769  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30) on May - 01.   

1770  On May - 01 forby Sutherland is laid to rest at Botany Bay. He is the first European to be buried in New South Wales.   

1770  Russian plague of 1770-1772 in Russia killing 50,000 people on May - 01.   

1770  Smallpox in Pacific Northwest natives on this day in history.   

1771  On May - 01 george Guest, composer   

1772  Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1772  On this day in history measles in North America   

1772  Persian Plague in Persia killing 2 million+ people on this day in history.   

1775  On May - 01 jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer   

1775  Influenza in England on May - 01.   

1776  On May - 01 adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati   

1776  Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati on this day in history.   

1777  RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London on May - 01.   

1778  On this day in history american Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.   

1778  Dengue fever in Spain on May - 01.   

1780  On May - 01 north American smallpox epidemic in Plains Indians   

1781  Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population on this day in history.   

1785  Kamehameha, the king of HawaiÊ»i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of HawaiÊ»i on May - 01.   

1786  On this day in history mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)   

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1218  On May - 01 birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.   

1493  On this day in history birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  On May - 01 birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on May - 01.   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.   

1308  On this day in history death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.