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, 1850
Day of Week 15th » The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1850
1st » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (d. 1942)
8th » Ross Barnes, American baseball player (d. 1915)
12th » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (d. 1924)
18th » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
21st » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
Famous Deaths for May 1850
9th » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
9th » Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)