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A collection of world events between 1492 and 1859, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. Please refer to the Guide
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IT Cf It 1526 May 22 Clement VII , France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac
?? ?? ?? 1570 May 22 First atlas, with 70 maps, published ?? ?? ?? 1594 May 22 Earl Maurice of Orange and William Louis of Nassau-Dillenburg begins siege of Groningen EU Cf Ty 1629 May 22 Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck
NA Mv Mu 1679 May 22 Richard Sawkins arrives off the town of Puebla Nueva, Panama, to attack the settlement there.
EU Sc Gv 1712 May 22 Emperor Charles VI crowned king of Hungary
?? ?? ?? 1746 May 22 Russia and Austria signs treaty of cooperation NA Sc Cm 1761 May 22 First life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia ?? ?? ?? 1762 May 22 Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty NA Cf Ar 1781 May 22 Patriot siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina, begins
AS Sc Gv 1784 May 22 Ceylonese student leader Quint Ondaatje demands democracy NA Sc Bd 1802 May 22 Martha Washington , age 70, dies at Mount Vernon
?? ?? ?? 1803 May 22 First public library opens (Connecticut) NA Sc Lc 1807 May 22 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) NA Sc Cm Townsend Speakman first sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks in Philadelphia ?? ?? ?? 1819 May 22 First steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) EU Me Mu 1836 May 22 Felix Mendelssohn ’s oratorium St. Paul premieres in Dusseldorf
NA Mv Ex 1843 May 22 First wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
PA Sc Gw 1846 May 22 First steamship arrives in Hawaii
NA Se Iv 1849 May 22 Abraham Lincoln is granted a patent for a buoying device used to lift vessels stuck on shoals
NA ?? ?? 1856 May 22 Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks takes a cane to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner
?? ?? ?? 1858 May 22 Confederacion Granadina (now Colombia) forms GB Sc Bd 1859 May 22 Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born
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