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, 1877
Day of Week 3rd » Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
Day of Week 5th » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota people known as Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel (United States) e.g Colonel Nelson Miles.
Day of Week 6th » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
Day of Week 9th » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies named Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
9th » A 1877 Iquique earthquake named magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
Day of Week 16th » 16 May 1877 crisis called May 1877 political crisis in France.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1877
3rd » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
20th » Patrick Leahy (athlete) named Pat Leahy, Irish jumper (d. 1927)
25th » Billy Murray (singer) known as Billy Murray, American singer and actor (d. 1954)
27th » Isadora Duncan, American-French dancer (d. 1927)
Famous Deaths for May 1877
6th » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet (b. 1804)