- May 8 Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy play "School for Scandal" premieres in London
- May 12 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi in the NY Gazette)
- May 13 University library at Vienna opens
- May 16 Button Gwinnett, Georgia delegate to US Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wounded in a duel with political rival Lachlan McIntosh
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