May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
May symbols: The birthstone of May is the emerald which is emblematic of love and success. The May birth flower is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna. The mayflower Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Its native range extends from Newfoundland south to Florida, west to Kentucky in the southern range, and to Northwest Territories in the north. The zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus (until May 20) and Gemini (May 21 onwards).
Historical Events for May, 1814
Day of Week 4th » Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
4th » King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to Absolute monarchy known as absolutism.
Day of Week 17th » Military occupation named Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
17th » The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian VIII of Denmark e.g Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
Day of Week 30th » Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1814
3rd » Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)
12th » Adolf von Henselt, German pianist and composer (d. 1889)
14th » Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded the Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876)
22nd » Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (d. 1891)
30th » Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and theorist (d. 1876)
30th » Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
Famous Deaths for May 1814
29th » Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon (b. 1763)