May 15th

The May 15th is the 135e Jour of the Année (136e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

8th century

756 : Foundation of the emirate of Cordoue

14th century

1364 : Charles V Wise the returns its duties to his/her father, Jean II the Good, whose remainders mortals were brought back of London.

16th century

1525 : In Thuringe, demolished Thomas Münzer, chief of the peasants, which puts a term at the Guerre of the Peasants.

1536 : Anne Boleyn and its brother, Lord Rochford, is declared guilty of Adultère and Inceste by the High court of England.

1582 : attempted murder against the prince William of Orange with Antwerp

17th century

1610 : Louis XIII becomes king de France

18th century

1756 : beginning of the War Seven Year old

1768 : the king Louis XV buys the Corsica with the République of Genoa on a proposal from the minister Choiseul

1790 : Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier, appointed of the nobility of the province of the Dauphine , causes a discussion with the Parliament on the right of peace and war.

19th century

1869 : Leon Gambetta publishes in the newspaper the national Future , its Programme of Belleville which will become a text founder of the opposition to the Second Empire.

1888 : The Re-examined of Paris and Saint-Pétersbourg publishes a news of the Belgian poet Symbolist of French-speaking expression Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898), “ the Love in Exile ”.

1891 : publication of the Encyclical Rerum Novarum of the Pope Leon XIII.

20th century

1902 : Presentation of the Voyage in the moon of Georges Méliès, first film of fiction with Faking S.

1917 : The general Pétain replaces the general Nivelle as French commander-in-chief.

1930 : Ellen Church, American, first Airline hostess.

1940 : The Netherlands, invaded by the German , capitulate.

1949 : Canonization of Jeanne de Lestonnac, religious Frenchwoman of the 17th century, by the Pope Pie XII.

1955 : Signature of the Staatsvertrag with the palate of the View-point with Vienna (Austria). By this treaty, the 4 combined Second world war cease occupying the Austria which becomes free, sovereign and democratic.

1976 : The Iran approves a treaty of friendship with the Iraq.

1991 : Edith Cresson succeeds Michel Rocard like Prime Minister. She will resign ten months later.

21e century

2003 :

trade-union Dissension in France in connection with the reform of the retirements: whereas the CFDT and CGC give their agreement to the last proposals of the government, the CGT, FO, the FSU and the UNSA reaffirm their opposition to this project.
10 000 articles for Wikipédia France.

2006 : Yvan Colonna is returned before the special Court of Assizes of Paris to answer of the assassination of the Corsica prefect of , Claude Erignac in 1998.

2007 : the Prime Minister French Dominique de Villepin presents the resignation of the government to the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac.

Births

1633 : Vauban, military architect of Louis XIV
1773: Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and an Austrian politician
1848: Carl Wernicke, doctor Polish († June 15th 1905)
1859: Pierre Curie, Physicist French († 1906)
1867: Hjalmar Johansen, Norwegian polar explorer († 1913)
1869: Litri (Miguel Báez Quintero), Spanish Matador († January 14th 1932).
1898 : Arletty, French Actress († 1992)
1905: Abraham Zapruder, scenario writer amateur († August 30th 1970) having filmed the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1909 : James Mason, British Actor († 1984)
1915:

Paul Samuelson, American economist
Mario Monicelli scenario writer and Italian realizer

1920: Michel Audiard, Dialogist, Scenario writer and Realizer French († 1985)
1923: Richard Avedon, American Photographer († 2004)
1930: Jasper Johns, painter and American Sculptor
1937:

Madeleine Albright, American political woman
Trini López, American Singer

1938: Mireille Darc, French Actress
1942: Anthony W. England, American astronaut
1948: Brian Eno, Musician and British Type-setter
1949: Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., American astronaut
1953: Mike Oldfield, Musician and British Type-setter
1955: Lee Horsley, American actor
1964: Alain Louiset, French plastics technician
1967: Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1972: David Charvet, actor and singer French
1987: Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player.

Death

925 : Nicolas Mystikos, patriarch of Constantinople
1525: Thomas Müntzer, Pasteur German
1634: Hendrick Avercamp, painter Dutch (° 1585).
1703 : Charles Perrault, storyteller and French man of letters.
1826 : Johann Baptist von Spix, Exploring zoologist and German (° 1781).
1832 : Carl Friedrich Zelter, German Musician . (° December 11th 1758)
1847: Daniel O' Connell, Irish politician called the Liberator or the Emancipator (° 1775)
1873: Alexandru Ioan Cuza, sovereign of Romania
1879: Jakob Stämpfli, Swiss politician (° February 23rd 1820).
1959 : max of Ollone, Leader, Type-setter and musicographe French (° June 13rd 1875).
1991 : Tinder Hampâté Bâ, ethnographer, historian of the Mali
1991: Andreas Floer, German mathematician, (Homology of Floer) (° August 23rd 1956)
2003: June Carter, American singer of country.
2004 : Robert Morgan, colonel commander of the B-17 Memphis Beautiful (° 1918).
2006 : Cheikha Rimitti, Algerian singer .
2007 : Jerry Falwell, American televangelist, Pasteur ultraconservator (° August 11th 1933).

Celebrations

Catholic or orthodoxe saints of the day

Holy Denise, 16 year old virgin, martyrized in 251 in minor Asia.
Holy Primel or Primaël, hermit at the 6th century
Victorin, pagan priest, converted by holy Austremoine, first bishop of Clermont, martyrized with his/her companion by the senator Cassius, towards 254.
Denise de Lampsaque († 450), martyrdom with Pierre saint.
Dymphne de Gheel († towards 700), martyrdom in the Brabant.
Euphrase de Clermont († 514 or 515), bishop.
Indalèce
Liberator
Pacôme of Tabennesis († 348)
Pierre de Lampsaque († 450), martyr with saint Andre and their companions.
Primaël of Quimper († towards 450), hermit also celebrated on May 16th.

Catholic saints

Isidore the Plowman († 1170), owner of Madrid.
Jean-Baptiste of the Room († 1719), owner of the teachers.

Orthodoxe saints

Dimitri the prince martyr († 1591).
Isaïe de Rostov († 1090), bishop.

See too

May 15th in sport
May 15th in the railroads

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