May 13

2024 Calendar

May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 232 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1515 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially marry at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected. During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
1648 - Building work on the Red Fort in Delhi, India, is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 - The first railway line in present-day Pakistan, then-part of British India, is opened between Karachi and Kotri.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.

1901 – 2000

1909 – The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, holds it first sitting.
1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
1958 – Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
1972 - The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the British Army, killing 7 people and injuring 66.
1976 – The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 – The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and begin a hunger strike.
1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 people.
1998 – Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. The country's President, Suharto, resigns a week later.
2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.

From 2001

2005 - The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2008 - Bombings in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, kill dozens of people.
2011 - The Charsadda bombing in Pakistan occur, as two bombs explode, killing 98 people, and injuring 140.
2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
2014 - A mine explosion in Soma, Western Turkey, kills around 300 people.
2015 - Discord releases, a instant messaging software.
2016 - President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro declares a 60-day state of emergency.
2017 - Salvador Sobral wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv for Portugal, with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
2018 - Manchester City F.C. becomes the first team in the English Premier League to achieve 100 points in a single league season.