Historical Events
Aaron Burr Tried for Treason
May 22 Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond, Virginia (acquitted)
- May 22 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks in Philadelphia
Famous Birthdays
- May 1 John B. Magruder, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Port Royal, Virginia (d. 1871)
- May 4 Thomas Duncan, Scottish painter, born in Kinclaven, Perthshire, Scotland (d. 1845)
- May 15 Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, Italian composer, music critic, attorney, and educator (Conservatory of Florence, 1862-81), born in Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1881)
- May 24 Cornelis Eliza van Koetsveld, Dutch writer and preacher, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1893)
- May 28 Jan van Swieten, Dutch general and governor of West-Sumatra, born in Mainz, Germany (d. 1888)
- May 28 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American naturalist and geologist, born in Haut-Vully, Switzerland (d. 1873)
Famous Deaths
Comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807)
May 10 comte de Rochambeau, French military leader (commander of the French Expeditionary Force that assisted the Thirteen Colonies), dies at 81
