Historical Events
- May 27 Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
Famous Birthdays
- May 12 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato singer, born in Venice, Republic of Venice (d. 1746)
- May 14 Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer who invented the Horrebow-Talcott Method, a method to determine a location's latitude from the stars, born in Løgstør, Jutland, Denmark (d. 1764)
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