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King Henry VI of England (also appears on March 4) -
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Archduke Charles at the Battle of Aspern-Essling
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| International Day for Biological Diversity | Stubby, missing cites |
| 1455 – Forces led by Richard, Duke of York, and Richard, Earl of Warwick, captured Lancastrian King Henry VI of England, beginning the Wars of the Roses with a Yorkist victory in the First Battle of St Albans. | refimprove section |
| 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: Austrian forces under Archduke Charles (depicted) prevented Napoleon and his French troops from crossing the Danube near Vienna at the Battle of Aspern-Essling. | Too much uncited |
| 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces began to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled town of Port Hudson, Louisiana. | refimprove section |
| 1915 – Five trains were involved in the United Kingdom's deadliest train crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – United Steelworkers, the largest industrial labor union in North America, was formed. | date not cited |
| 1945 – The United States Army formed a plan to evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology. | refimprove |
| 1964 – During a speech at the University of Michigan, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson presented the goals of his Great Society domestic social reforms to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. | missing page numbers |
| 1990 – The Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen merged to become the Republic of Yemen. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in 58 years. | refimprove section |
| Amalia Lindegren |b|1814| | refimprove |
| José Enrique Moyal |d|1998| | Deathdate not cited |
| Lee Jong-wook |d|2006 | Orange more citations needed banner |
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- 853 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of Damietta, whose garrison was absent at the time.
- 1629 – Albrecht von Wallenstein and King Christian IV of Denmark signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1762 – The Trevi Fountain (pictured) in Rome was officially inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII.
- 1816 – A riot broke out in Littleport, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day before being quelled by troops.
- 1844 – In Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared himself to be a messenger of God to Mullá Husayn, leading to the foundation of Bábism, considered to be a precursor to the Baháʼí Faith.
- 1849 – Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. president ever to hold a patent.
- 1856 – Senator Charles Sumner (pictured) was assaulted by Representative Preston Brooks in the United States Senate chamber in retaliation for a speech in which Sumner fiercely criticized slaveholders.
- 1897 – The first Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London.
- 1905 – Sultan Abdul Hamid II established the Ullah millet, a separate millet for the Aromanians within the Ottoman Empire.
- 1915 – California's Lassen Peak violently erupted, the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
- 1939 – Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, a military and political alliance.
- 1958 – Ethnic riots mostly targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils broke out in Ceylon, resulting in at least 158 deaths over the next few days.
- 1960 – The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering approximately Template:Nowrap, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis that reached Hawaii and Japan.
- 1972 – The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic within the Commonwealth.
- 1980 – Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.
- 1987 – During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Muslims and dumped their bodies in water canals.
- 2002 – Police announced that the skeletal remains of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, who had been missing for a year, had been found in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.
- 2010 – Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
- Born/died: | Magnus Stenbock |b|1665| Martha Washington |d|1802| Richard Wagner |b|1813| Rita Cetina Gutiérrez |b|1846| Fritz von Uhde |b|1848| Gaetano Bresci |d|1901| Tom Driberg|b|1905| Laurence Olivier |b|1907| T. Boone Pickens |b|1928| Lady Gregory |d|1932| Morrissey |b|1959| Myrtle Bachelder |d|1997| Christine Mboma |b|2003|
Notes
- 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens appears on May 18, so Lassen Peak should not appear in the same year
- 2010 Thai military crackdown appears on May 19, so 2014 coup should not appear in the same year
May 22: National Maritime Day in the United States; Unity Day in Yemen Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1766 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Constantinople and was followed by a tsunami that caused significant damage.
- 1874 – Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem was first performed in the San Marco church in Milan to commemorate the first anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death.
- 1998 – In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time a statute in Singapore had been ruled unconstitutional.
- 2014 – Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis.