Historic Event
May 7 First US Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington in NYC)
- May 12 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
Britain Abolishes the Slave Trade
May 12 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
