1st » Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
4th » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
15th » American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a Lee Resolution known as resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
19th » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1776
20th » Simon Fraser (explorer) called Simon Fraser, American-Canadian explorer (d. 1862)