On May 5, history records 53 notable events, 187 famous births and 82 deaths, spanning the years 553 to 1811.
Events on this day include: The Second Council of Constantinople begins. (553); Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. (1215).
Notable people born on May 5 include Afonso III of Portugal (1210), Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282), Preczlaw of Pogarell (1310).
Notable figures who died on this day include Gerontius (bishop of Milan) (465), Casimir II the Just (1194), Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (1243).
Events on 5 May 53
See all →Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
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.
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Birthdays on 5 May 187
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Deaths on 5 May 82
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