Historical Events
- May 7 French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession
Famous Birthdays
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
May 7 French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), born in Montauban, France
- May 16 Antonius van Alphen, Dutch apostolic vicar of De Bosch (d. 1831)
Famous Deaths
- May 12 Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer, founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University (b. 1692)
