MAY CALENDAR 



Birthdays 



1. Joseph Addison, 1672. 

 George Inness, 1825. 



2. Catharine II (Russia), 1729. 



Sir Alexander Tilloch Gait, 1799. 



3. Jacob A. Riis, 1849. 



4. John Graves Simcoe, 1793. 

 Horace Mann, 1796. 



5. Hubert Howe Bancroft. 1832. 



6. Maximilian Robespierre, 1758. 

 Robert E. Peary, 1856. 



"7. Robert Browning, 1812. 



8. Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, 1818. 



9. John Brown, 1800. 



10. James G. Bennett, Jr., T841. 



11. Jean L6on Gerome, 1824. - 



12. William Howe, 1803. 

 Robert Baldwin, 1804. 



13. Maria Theresa, 1717. 



14. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, 1686. 

 15. Florence Nightingale, 1820. 



16. Honor6 de Balzac, 1799. 



17. Edward Jenner, 1749. 

 Alfonso XIII, 1886. 



19. John Gottlieb Fichte, 1762. 



20. John Stuart Mill, 1806. 



21. Albrecht Durer, 1471. 



22. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, 181 ! 



23. Thomas Hood, 1799. 



24. Karl von Linn6, 1707. 

 Queen Victoria, 1819. 



25. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803. 

 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803. 



27. Dante, 1265. 

 Nathanael Greene, 1742. 

 Julia Ward Howe, 1819. 



28. William Pitt, 1759. 

 Louis J. R. Agassiz, 1807. 



29. Charles II, 1630. 

 Patrick Henry, 1736. 



31. Walt Whitman, 1819. 



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Legislative union of England and Scotland, 1707. 



Battle of Manila Bay, 1898. 



Hudson's Bay Company chartered, 1670. 



"Stonewall" Jackson wounded at Chancellorsville, 1863. 



Jamaica discovered, 1494. 



Napoleon arrived at Elba, 1814. 



Historic meeting of States-General, 1789. 



Secession of Arkansas and Virginia, 1861. 



Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1915. 



Charles II proclaimed king, 1660. 



Accession of George V proclaimed, 1910. 



Ticonderoga captured by Ethan Allen, 1775. 



Death of "Stonewall" Jackson, 1863. 



Minnesota became a state, 1858. . 



Charleston, S. C., captured by British, 1780. 



Confederacy recognized by Great Britain as belligerents, 1861. 



Henry IV of France assassinated, 1610. 



The Alabama launched at Birkenhead, England, 1862. 



Louis Riel surrendered, 1885. 



Memorial to Queen Victoria unveiled in London, 1911. 



Great fire in Montreal, 1765. 



Lincoln nominated, 1860. 



Treaty between United States and Mexico, 1848. 



Secession of North Carolina, 1861. 



Sir John A. Macdonald became Premier of Canada, 1862. 



Panama Canal voted by House free of toll to American coastwise vessels, 1912. 



Kansas-Nebraska Bill passed by House, 1854. 



Italy declared war on Austria, 1915. 



Empire Day first observed in Great Britain as memorial to Queen Victoria, 1904. 



Constitutional Convention began its work, 1787. 



Rebel Canadian Indian chiefs surrendered, 1885. 



Robert Bruce crowned king of Scotland, 1306. 



Spanish Armada left Lisbon, 1588. 



Jacques Cartier sailed to colonize Canada, 1535. 



Wisconsin became a state, 1848. 



Joan of Arc put to death, 1431. 



The Johnstown flood. 1889. 



Great naval battle off Danish coast, 1916. 



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Bird 



Cat 



Codling Moth 



Fly 



For Study 



Grafting 



Insect pests 



Leaf 



May Beetle 



Migration of Birds 



Poultry 



Scarlet Tanager 



Stems 



Strawberry 



Trillium 



Violet 



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