Historical Events
Cartier reaches Newfoundland
May 10 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
- May 12 German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
Famous Deaths
- May 28 Dirk Martens, Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about 83
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