On this day: 5 May
Events, births and deaths on 5 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Isao Tomita
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1921 · Births · Arthur Leonard Schawlow
- 1921 · Deaths · Alfred Hermann Fried
- 1916 · Births · Zail Singh
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 21
- 553(Julian date)Second Council of Constantinople — Council of the Christian church held from held from 5 May to 2 June 553
- 1762Treaty of Saint Petersburg — peace treaty
- 1789French Revolution — A period of political and societal change in France from 1789 to 1799
- 1821The Guardian — British national daily newspaper
- 1860Expedition of the Thousand — historical event in 1860, part of the Italian unification (Risorgimento)
- 1862Battle of Puebla — 1862 part of the French intervention in Mexico
- 1864Battle of the Wilderness — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 19301930 Bago earthquake — earthquake in Myanmar
- 1936March of the Iron Will — Italian propaganda event
- 1945Prague Uprising — uprising attempting to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during World War II
- 1945Battle of Castle Itter — battle year 1945 in which U.S. infantry and armour, Wehrmacht Heer, French prisoners and Austrian partisans took Castle Itter from the occupying Waffen SS
- 1949Council of Europe — International organisation founded in 1949
- 1949Statute of the Council of Europe — multilateral treaty, signed on 5 May 1949
- 1972Alitalia Flight 112 — Aviation accident
- 1983CAAC Flight 296 — Hijacking of CAAC aircraft
- 1992Basel Convention — international treaty to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries
- 1994Bishkek Protocol — cease-fire deal which marks the end of the first Nagorno-Karabakh war
- 2007Kenya Airways Flight 507 — aviation accident
- 2010Anti-austerity movement in Greece — series of demonstrations and general strikes in 2010 to 2012
- 20132013 Malaysian general election — election for the Malaysian Parliament
- 2020Shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcasting — Controversy over the non-renewal of the congressional franchise of the Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN
Births · 60
- 1210Afonso III of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1282(Julian date)Don Juan Manuel — Spanish prince and writer (1282-1348)
- 1352(Julian date)Rupert — King of Germany and Elector Palatine (1352-1410)
- 1479Guru Amar Das — guru of Sikhism
- 1747Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
- 1813Søren Kierkegaard — Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
- 1818Karl Marx — German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
- 1826Eugénie de Montijo — Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1870 (1826–1920)
- 1833Ferdinand von Richthofen — German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905)
- 1846Henryk Sienkiewicz — Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
- 1864Nellie Bly — American journalist
- 1869Hans Pfitzner — German composer (1869–1949)
- 1873Leon Czolgosz — American laborer and assassin (1873–1901)
- 1882Sylvia Pankhurst — English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)
- 1883Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell — British Army general and Viceroy of India
- 1890Christopher Morley — American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet (1890–1957)
- 1892Dorothy Garrod — British archaeologist and first female Professor at the University of Cambridge (1892-1968)
- 1909Atsushi Nakajima — Japanese writer (1909–1942)
- 1911Andor Lilienthal — Hungarian chess player (1911–2010)
- 1914Tyrone Power — American actor (1914-1958)
- 1915Alice Faye — American actress and singer (1915–1998)
- 1916Zail Singh — President of India from 1982 to 1987
- 1919Georgios Papadopoulos — dictator of Greece from 1967 to 1973 (1919–1999)
- 1921Arthur Leonard Schawlow — American physicist
- 1923Cathleen Synge Morawetz — Canadian mathematician (1923–2017)
Deaths · 60
- 200(Julian date)Sun Ce — Chinese general, politician and warlord (175–200)
- 1194(Julian date)Casimir II the Just — High Duke of Poland (1138-1194)
- 1306Konstantinos Palaiologos — Byzantine prince
- 1309(Julian date)Charles II of Naples — king of Naples from 1284 to 1309
- 1316(Julian date)Elizabeth of Rhuddlan — English princess, born in Wales
- 1432Francesco Bussone — Italian condottiere
- 1525(Julian date)Frederick III of Saxony — Elector and Duke of Saxony (1463-1525)
- 1582Charlotte of Bourbon — French noblewoman (1546-1582); third wife of William the Silent (1546-1582)
- 1671Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester — English politician (1602-1671)
- 1672Samuel Cooper — painter of miniatures from England (1609-1672)
- 1705Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (lived 1640-1705)
- 1766Jean Astruc — French physician (1684-1766)
- 1808Pierre Jean George Cabanis — French physiologist and materialist philosopher (1757-1808)
- 1821Napoleon — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
- 1827Friedrich August I of Saxony — King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827 (1750-1827)
- 1859Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet — German mathematician (1805–1859)
- 1892August Wilhelm von Hofmann — German chemist (1818–1892)
- 1901Mariano Ignacio Prado — President of Peru (1826-1901)
- 1902Bret Harte — American writer and poet (1836–1902)
- 1907Şeker Ahmed Paşa — Ottoman painter (1841-1907)
- 1913Henry Moret — French painter (1856-1913)
- 1916John MacBride — Irish republican
- 1921Alfred Hermann Fried — Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1864–1921)
- 1957Leopold Löwenheim — German mathematician (1878–1957)
- 1959Carlos Saavedra Lamas — Argentine politician (1878-1959)
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