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, 1832
Day of Week 7th » The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London, 1832 Treaty of London. Otto of Greece Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen List of Kings of Greece King.
Day of Week 24th » The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference of 1832 named London Conference.
Day of Week 30th » End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, German Confederation named Germany.
30th » The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1832
5th » Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918)
13th » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist (d. 1864)
14th » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and educator (d. 1903)
14th » Charles Peace, English criminal (d. 1879)
21st » Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (d. 1917)