^B{^#!16!23 May^N! Feast day of Saints Montanus and Lucius, St William of Rochester, St Aldhelm, St Euphrosyne of Polotsk, St Ivo of Chartres, St Leontius of Rostov, St Desiderius of Vienne, and St John Baptist dei Rossi.
^B{878^B} The Saxon King Alfred defeated the Danes at Edington; under the peace of Wedmore, their leader, Guthrum, was baptized as a Christian. ^B{1169^B} 'The First Conquerors' landed in Ireland; they were Normans from Wales enlisted by Dermot MacMurrough to recover his kingdom of Leinster. ^B{1430^B} Burgundian troops captured Joan of Arc and delivered her to the English. ^B{1568^B} William of Orange with German mercenaries defeated a Spanish force under Count Aremberg at Heiligerlee; this action marked the beginning proper of the Revolt of the Netherlands. ^B{1618^B} The Defenestration of Prague, when the Regents, Martinitz and Slawata, were overthrown by the Bohemian rebels, began the Thirty Years' War. ^B{1926^B} France proclaimed the Lebanon a republic.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Tamerlane the Great, Mongol leader, ^B{1335^B}; Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian, ^B{1617^B}; Carl von LinnĪ (Linnaeus), Swedish botanist, ^B{1707^B}; William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and obstetrician, ^B{1718^B}; Friedrich Mesmer, Austrian physician, ^B{1733^B}; Otto Lilienthal, German aviator, ^B{1848^B}; Edmund Rubbra, English composer, ^B{1901^B}; Hugh Casson, British architect, ^B{1910^B}; Joan Collins, English actress, ^B{1933^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St Albans, ^B{1335^B}; Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine priest, burned at the stake, ^B{1498^B}; William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged, ^B{1701^B}; Leopold von Ranke, German historian, ^B{1886^B}; Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, ^B{1906^B}.
