May 1st, 1675

Born on May 1st, 1675

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 1st?

May 1st, 2002

The Horncastle boar's head (pictured), which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.

May 1st, 2016

The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

May 1st, 1991

In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

May 1st, 1974

Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

May 1st, 1950

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

May 1st, 1947

Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

May 1st, 1945

Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

May 1st, 1941

Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

May 1st, 1931

New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

May 1st, 1900

A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

May 1st, 1885

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.

May 1st, 1884

Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.

May 1st, 1794

War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou.

May 1st, 1786

The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

May 1st, 1776

The secret society known as the Order of Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph Freiherr Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 1st

Same year
Born in 1675

83

Benedict XIV

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758

*March 31st, 1675, Bologna †May 3rd, 1758, Rome

67

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

Italian composer and violinist

*July 12th, 1675, Verona †July 12th, 1742, Munich

34

Higashiyama

Emperor of Japan (1675-1710)

*October 21st, 1675, Kyoto †January 16th, 1710, Kyoto

81

Rosalba Carriera

Rococo portrait painter (1675–1757)

*October 7th, 1675, Venice †April 15th, 1757, Venice

19

Magdalena Sibylla of Neidschutz

German countess

*February 8th, 1675, Dresden †April 14th, 1694, Dresden

50

Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington

German-born British courtier and half-sister of George I of Great Britain (1675-1725)

*January 1st, 1675, Osnabrück †January 1st, 1725, London

70

Johann Alexander Döderlein

German historian

*February 11th, 1675, Bieswang †October 23rd, 1745, Weißenburg in Bayern

78

Diamante Maria Scarabelli

Italian soprano singer (1675-1754)

*October 6th, 1675, Bologna †April 5th, 1754, Bologna

74

Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl

Bavarian politician (1675-1750)

*February 21st, 1675, Munich †January 22nd, 1750, Munich

73

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham

British soldier and Whig politician (1675-1749)

*October 24th, 1675, Parchim †September 13th, 1749, Stowe House

84

Louis de Silvestre

French painter (1675-1760)

*June 23rd, 1675, Sceaux †April 11th, 1760, Paris

61

Vakhtang VI of Kartli

King of Kartli

*September 15th, 1675, Tbilisi †March 26th, 1737, Astrakhan

53

Samuel Clarke

English philosopher and clergyman (*1675 – †1729)

*October 11th, 1675, Norwich †May 17th, 1729, London

75

Paul Dudley

Colonial Massachusetts attorney general and chief justice

*September 3rd, 1675, Roxbury †January 25th, 1751, Roxbury

80

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French writer

*January 16th, 1675, Paris †March 2nd, 1755, Paris

69

Heinrich Klausing

German mathematician, astronomer and theologian (1675-1745)

*December 28th, 1675, Herford †October 2nd, 1745, Leipzig

80

Joseph Fornery

*March 16th, 1675, Carpentras †November 2nd, 1755, Carpentras

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti , International Workers' Day or Labour Day , May Day) which are celebrated on May 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1675 is a normal year and no leap year.

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