Historical Events
- May 22 Russia and Austria sign treaty of cooperation
Famous Birthdays
- May 9 Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (descriptive and differential geometry), politician (Minister of the Marine, 1792-93), and educator (École polytechnique), born in Beaune, France (d. 1818)
- May 13 Oliver Brownson, American composer, and music publisher, mostly of hymns, born in Bolton, Connecticut (d. 1815)
- May 19 Johann Friedrich Peter, Dutch-born American composer, born in Heerendijk, Holland (d. 1813)