Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 5 May 1192Queen of Jerusalem (r. 1190/1192–1205)
Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.📜 POLITICS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 5 May 1292King of Germany from 1292 to 1298
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 ITALY🗓️ 5 May 0553Ecumenical council held in 553 in response to the Three Chapters controversy
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 5 May 1215King of England from 1199 to 1216
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA🗓️ 5 May 1260Emperor of Yuan China from 1271 to 1294
On his second voyage to the New World📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 5 May 1494Italian navigator and explorer (1451–1506)
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 JAPAN🗓️ 5 May 160916/17th-century Japanese warlord; leader of Satsuma Domain
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 5 May 1640King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 to 1649
Cromwell’s Act of Grace📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 5 May 16541654 act of the Parliament of England
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.📜 CITIES🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ 5 May 1762Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 1809American inventor (1752–1837)
The first edition of The Manchester Guardian📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 5 May 1821British national daily newspaper
Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 5 May 1821French general and emperor (1769–1821)
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 5 May 1835
Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 1862Annual celebration held on May 5
American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 18641861–1865 conflict in the United States
American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 1865
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 1866Federal holiday in the United States
American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 INDIA🗓️ 5 May 1877Frontier conflicts in North America, 1609–1890s