歷史上的May 5

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  May 5: Feast of St George (Palestinians); Liberation Dayin Denmark, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands; Yom HaShoah in Israel (2016); Cinco de Mayo in Mexico and the United States

  May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year.


 

  Events

  553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

  1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

  1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

  1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.

  1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.

  1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.

  1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.

  1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

  1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau allowed citizenship to Jews.

  1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro the French army, under Marshall André Masséna, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Oñoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.