26th » Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French colonization of the Americas French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under the governor of Louisiana
Famous Birthdays on May in 1736
29th » Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
Famous Deaths for May 1736
9th » Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658)