Events in History
- May 7 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
- May 16 The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
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Louis XVIII
May 14 King of France Louis XVIII weds princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy at the Palace of Versailles
Deaths in History
- May 21 Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols), dies at 49
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