Page 3: Historical Events In May - 01

1743  Plague in Italy on this day in history.   

1747  On May - 01 measles in Thirteen Colonies   

1751  On May - 01 1st American cricket match is played   

1753  Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature on this day in history.   

1755  Smallpox in North America on May - 01.   

1756  France & Austria sign alliance on this day in history.   

1757  On May - 01 austria &France divide Prussia   

1757  On this day in history austria & France divide Prussia   

1759  On May - 01 british fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France   

1759  On this day in history jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor   

1759  Measles in North America on May - 01.   

1761  On this day in history influenza in North America, West Indies   

1763  On this day in history smallpox in North America, present-day Pittsburgh area.   

1764  On this day in history benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)   

1769  The birth of Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington on this day in history.   

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

1770  Forby Sutherland is laid to rest at Botany Bay. He is the first European to be buried in New South Wales on this day in history.   

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  George Guest, composer on May - 01.   

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

1772  On May - 01 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  On this day in history influenza in England   

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

1776  On this day in history adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati   

1777  RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London on this day in history.   

1778  On May - 01 american Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.   

1778  On May - 01 dengue fever in Spain   

1780  North American smallpox epidemic in Plains Indians on this day in history.   

1781  Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population on May - 01.   

1785  On this day in history kamehameha, the king of HawaiÊ»i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of HawaiÊ»i.   

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

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1218  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  On this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

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  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.