^B{^#!16!16 May^N! Feast day of St Brendan the Navigator, St Carantoc, St Peregrine of Auxerre, St Simon Stock, St Domnolus of Le Mans, St Honoratus of Amiens, St Germerius, St John Nepomucen, St Possidius, and St Ubaldus of Gubbio.
^B{1152^B} Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine. ^B{1203^B} Baldwin, Count of Flanders, was crowned Latin Emperor of Constantinople. ^B{1220^B} Henry II laid the foundation stone of a new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, thus beginning the new abbey-church (1245). ^B{ 1770^B} The Dauphin of France (later Louis XVI) married Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. ^B{1804^B} Napoleon was declared Emperor. ^B{1907^B} The Pact of Cartagena was declared between Britain, France, and Spain to counter German designs on the Balearic and Canary Islands. ^B{1949^B} Chinese Nationalists organized a Supreme Council under Chiang Kai-shek, which began to remove forces to Formosa.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, ^B{1316^B}; John Sell Cotman, English watercolorist, ^B{1782^B}; Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scholar, ^B{1718^B}; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier who wrote the ^I{Marseillaise^I}, ^B{1760^B}; Henry Fonda, US film actor, ^B{1905^B}; Roy Hudd, English comedian, ^B{1936^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}HΘloise, French nun, ^B{1164^B}; Peter the Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ^B{1164^B}; Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales, ^B{1703^B}; Edward Gibbon Wakefield, British colonial politician, ^B{1862^B}; Edward Augustus Freeman, English historian, ^B{1892^B}; Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist, ^B{1942^B}.
