^B{^#!16!17 May^N! Feast day of St Madron, St Paschal Baylon, and St Bruno of Wⁿrzburg.
^B{1215^B} The English barons in revolt against King John took possession of London. ^B{1527^B} Archbishop Warham began a secret inquiry at Greenwich into Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon, the first step in divorce proceedings. ^B{1536^B} Archbishop Cranmer declared Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn invalid; she was executed on the 19th. ^B{ 1742^B} Frederick II defeated the Austrians at Chotusitz. ^B{1885^B} Germany annexed Northern New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. ^B{1900^B} The Relief of Mafeking by British troops against the besieging Boer forces. ^B{1939^B} Sweden, Norway and Finland rejected Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts, but Denmark, Estonia and Latvia accepted. ^B{1954^B} Racial segregation was banned in US state schools. ^B{1960^B} The Kariba Dam, Rhodesia, was opened.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Maria Theresa, empress, ^B{1717^B}; Edward Jenner, English pioneer of vaccination, ^B{1749^B}; Timothy Healy, Irish nationalist leader, ^B{1855^B}; Erik Satie, French composer, ^B{1866^B}; Dennis Hopper, US film actor, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer, ^B{1945^B}; Sugar Ray Leonard, US boxer, ^B{1956^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter, ^B{1510^B}; Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, ^B{1575^B}; Samuel Clarke, English philosopher, ^B{1729^B}; Charles de Talleyrand-PΘrigord, French politician, ^B{1838^B}; Cass Gilbert, US architect, ^B{1934^B}.
