31 May Defeat.

1915 Ottomans defeated by British at Kurna.

30 May Ships Embark New Lands Discovered

1498 Columbus leading a fleet of six ships to the West Indies leaves Spain for a third time.  1539 Hernando de Soto makes landfall in Present-Day Florida.

29 May Last Original State Ratifies Constitution Riot Starts

1790 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ratifies the United States Constitution by a vote of 34-32 only after a Bill of Rights which limits the government created by the constitution is submitted the states. 1913 Igor Stravinsky's Ballet Rite of Spring starts a riot at its premier in Paris.

28 May Marriage Upheld Regiment Leaves

1533 Archbishop of Canterbury declares Henry VIII's Marriage to Anne Boleyn Valid. 1863 54th Massachusetts Infantry leaves Boston to fight in Civil War.

26 May Loss for Nicholas

1915 Austro Hungarian forces relieve the besieged fortress of Przemysl.

27 May SHips Destroyed.

1915 Destruction of His Majesty's Ship  Majestic off Gallipoli and Princesses Irène auxiliary ship Sheerness Harbour.

25 May 105,000 Casualties in Belgium

1915 End of Second Battle of Ypres.

24 May Rebellion Starts Cities Siezed.

1798 Rebellion against Britain begins in Ireland.
1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida from Spain. 
1846 General Zachary Taylor Captures Monterey, Mexico from Mexico.

23 May Trial Adjourns President Not Guilty of Anything Deserving Removal.From Office and Diqualfication From Holding Ofice Under The United States

1868 President Andrew Johnson Acquitted on two more articles of impeachment trial adjourns without setting a day to meet again thus implicitly acquitting Johnson of the remaining articles .

22 May Former Klansman Convicted

2002 Former Ku Klux Kan Member Bobby Frank Cherry is convicted of four counts of murder in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama.

21 May Capital Chosen

1861 Richmond VA. Chosen as Confederate Capital.

20 May Shoes Made One State Secedes Another Stays Neutral

1310 Shoes made for both left and right feet instead of being interchangeable.
1861 North Carolina secedes as Kentucky's legislature is tied on question of secession and declares neutrality.  

19 May Senator Speaks Provokes Beating

1856 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts speaks against slavery in Kansas Territory mocking Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina in the process.Later Representative Preston Brooks Butler's cousin beats Sumner nearly to death with a cane on the Senate Floor.

18 May Segregation Affirmed Army Embarks

1896 Supreme Court says separation based on race is constitutional as long as the facilities are substantially equal. An attempt to avoid being drawn in to striking down legal recognized racial segregation in all situations. 1917 First units of the AEF leaves for France as Congress passes a draft. 

17 May End.

 1915 End of  Asquith Liberal Government in Britain.

16 May First Presidential Impeachment Results in Aquittal

1868 Andrew Johnson acquitted by one vote in the U.S. Senate on one of the eleven articles of impeachment the House of Representatives has charged him with. Senator Edmond G. Ross of Kansas is the deciding vote the final vote is 35 of 54 senators voting for conviction and 19 for acquittal. 

15 May Juviniles Aforded Due Process Rights

1967 The United States Supreme Court decides many of the rights adult defendants have should be afforded juveniles.

14 May English Colony Esablihed.

1607  Jamestown Virgina established as English Colony.

13 May President Signs War Declaration

1846 An Act Recognizing a State of War With Mexico is signed by President Polk after receiving approval by a vote of 174-14 in the House and 40-2 in the Senate.The act provides  the president  the power to call up the army and state militias to fight the war.

12 May Central Poweres on the March

1915 Progress made by German and Austro Hungarian Forces north of Uzsock Pass.

11 May War With Mexico Sought

1846 President James K. Polk sends a message to congress asking for a declaration of war on Mexico after "Mexicans crossed the river and shed American Blood  on American Soil." In reality this was disputed territory claimed by both America and Mexico.

10 May British Fort and Confederate President Captured

1775 Fort Ticonderoga captured by Americans.
1865 Jefferson Davis Captured.

9 May Mexcans Defeated Naval Academy Moved

1846 U.S. forces Under Zachary Taylor defeat Mexicans under General Arista with the help  of Samuel Ringold and his flying ( fast moving horse drawn) artillery which at one point moved quickly under a cloud of smoke to the exposed flank of the American Army just as Mexicans were about to turn it. 1862 The Naval Academy moves to Newport Rhode Island from Annapolis Maryland due to the fact Maryland is threatened by Confederates.  

9 May Sports Recoed

1965 Randy Matson throws shot put 70.7' becoming the first person to throw over 70'

7 May 128 Aemicans Killed In British Ship Containing Illegal Munitions.

1915 German U-Boat U-20 torpedoes R.M.S. Lusitania off Old Kinsale's Head Ireland killing 128 Americans and stopping shipment of contraband ammunition to Britain. Sink on sight provoked protests by the United States.If those Americans took an American liner it would have bee considered neutral and spared.

6 May Peace Closer

 1994 Congress passes Assault Weapons Ban under Bill Clinton it lapsed in 2004 under George W. Bush. 2001 Pope John Paul II enters a Mosque while on a trip to Syria becoming the first pope to to so.

5 May Sinking.

 1915 British Schooner Earl of Latham sunk by  U-20.

4 May Troops Stop and Surrender

1862 General George McClellan stops troop movements in Yorktown due to primitive land mines called torpedoes left by C.S.A. Brigadier General Gabriel Rains. 1865 Confederates in Alabama and Mississippi surrender after the Battle of Citronssville. 

3 May Mexicans Surround Americans Taking Bait

1846 Mexican troops under General Mariano Arista  and others surround Americans in Fort Texas

2 May Defeat For Evil Empire

1945 Red Army occupies Berlin and Nazis in Italy surrender.

1 May Two Declared Blessed and Mission Accomplshed

1987 Pope John Paul II declares Edith Stein who was born a Jew to be blessed.
2003 President George Walker Bush gives "Mission Accomplished" Speech declaring end of (major combat) in Iraq. 2011 John Paul blessed.