May 5 in History

starts   2019

Iran–US confrontation in Persian Gulf

ends   1945

Japanese fire balloons strike North America

starts   1942

British conquer Vichy Madagascar

starts   1942

British capture Diégo Suarez, Madagascar

  1940

Greenland asserts full control over its own affairs

ends   1936

Italians capture Addis Ababa

ends   1932

January 28 Incident

ends   1930

Gandhi marches to Dandi to challenge British

ends   1922

Ikhwan raids on Iraq

ends   1898

French expedition to Chad fails

  1895

Japan agrees to withdraw from Liaodong

ends   1877

Sioux and Cheyenne surrender

ends   1877

Great Sioux War

  1865

Confederacy dissolved

  1862

French repulsed at Puebla

starts   1860

Garibaldi’s 1,089 Redshirts sail to Sicily

starts   1855

Pitcairn Islanders replace convicts on Norfolk Island

ends   1821

Napoleon exiled to Saint Helena

starts   1811

French capture Tarragona from Spanish

ends   1811

Allies defeat French at Fuentes de Oñoro

starts   1789

Revolution overthrows monarchy in France; brings Napoleon to power

ends   1509

Sebastian Cabot explores eastern North America*

starts   441

Suebi take control of Baetica and Carthaginiensis*

  425

Eastern Romans capture Joannes at Ravenna*

  407

Constantine III lands in northern Gaul*

ends   325

Arab tribes raid Persian Empire*

starts   325

Persians expel Arabs and reconquer eastern Arabia*

  271

Juthungi defeat Aurelian at Placentia*

ends   167

Romans repel Langobard invasion of Pannonia