Events in History
- May 4 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx
Event of Interest
May 26 Lewis and Clark first sight the Rocky Mountains

William Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Napoléon Bonaparte
Deaths in History
William Petty
May 7 William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1782-83), dies at 68

William Petty