May 12th
The May 12th is the 132e Jour of the Année (133e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
- 1191 : Marriage of Bérangère and Richard I {{er}} of England.
- 1559 : Following the signature of the Treated of Cateau-Cambrésis, creation of the diocese of Cambric which separates from that of Tournai, at the same time as the Archevêché of Utrecht.
- 1588 : First day of the Barricades of the Members of a league, with Paris, against Henri III, which must flee the capital after the arrival of Henri duke of Own way.
- 1797 : Napoleon conquers Venice.
- 1802 : The Tribunat, unanimously less one vote - that of Lazare Carnot -, and the legislative Body, unanimously less three votes, votes the Consulat with life. ( 22 floréal year X ), which will have to still be ratified by a Plébiscite (August 2nd).
- 1881 : Signature of the treaty of protectorate to the palate of Ksar Saïd the May 12th between the Tunisian Bey and the French government.
- 1894 : Dedication of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Grâce of Cambric (Northern), restored and increased.
20th century
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1930 : Jean Mermoz makes a success of the first crossing without stopover of the Atlantique Southern, on board a Hydravion, between Saint-Louis (Senegal) and Natal (Brésil).
- 1937 : Crowning of the King George VI of the United Kingdom in the Abbey of Westminster.
- 1996 : Signature of the Arrangement of Wassenaar on exports of armaments.
21e century
- 2007 :
- the Concours Eurovision of the song 2007 is gained by Marija Šerifović for the Serbia with the song Molitva .
- the Coupe de France of football 2007 is gained by FC Sochaux-Montbeliard at the end of the finale against OM (1-1, 2-2 pr., 5-4).
Births
- 1665 : Albertus Seba, Zoologist and Pharmacy N Dutch, celebrates for its Cabinet of curiosities († 1736)
- 1670: Auguste II, king of Poland († 1733).
- 1700 : Luigi Vanvitelli, architect baroque Italy N. († March 1st 1773).
- 1820 : Florence Nightingale, nurse († 1910)
- 1823: John Russell Hind, British Astronomer
- 1825: Antoine de Tounens, adventurous French, transitory king of Patagonie († September 17th 1878)
- 1842: Jules Massenet, French type-setter († August 13rd 1912)
- 1845: Gabriel Fauré, French type-setter († November 4th 1924)
- 1884: Flora (Isidoro Martí Fernando), Spanish Matador († December 6th 1921).
- 1899 : Maurice Lent, writer and Belgian poet († January 13rd 1978)
- 1907: Katherine Hepburn, American actress († June 29th 2003)
- 1915: Frère Roger, founder and organizer of the the Community of Taizé († 2005)
- 1918: Julius Rosenberg, spy (?) American condemned to dead († June 19th 1953, 35 years)
- 1921: Pierre Rouanet, French journalist
- 1930: Jesus Free, realizer, scenario writer, producer and Spanish actor
- 1930: Manual Marulanda Vélez, chief and founders of the FARC
- 1936: Frank Stella, American painter
- 1942:
- Michel Fugain, singer and type-setter French
- Ian Dury, singer, type-setter and British actor († March 27th 2000)
- 1950:
- Gabriel Byrne, actor, producer, scenario writer and realizer Irish
- Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
- 1962: Emilio Estevez, actor, realizer, scenario writer and American producer
- 1966: Stephen Baldwin, American actor
- 1968: Tony Hawk, skateborder professional American
- 1971: Sofia Coppola, American director
- 1972: David Charvet, actor and singer French
- 1983: Virginia Razzano, French tennis player.
Death
- 1003 : Gerbert d' Aurillac, pope under the name of Sylvestre II (° v. 938)
- 1784: Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist
- 1856: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician and astronomer French (° February 2nd 1786)
- 1884: Bedřich Smetana, Czech type-setter (° March 2nd 1824)
- 1907: Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer French
- 1916: James Connolly, revolutionist and trade unionist Irish (° 1868)
- 1935: Józef Piłsudski, marshal and statesman Polish (° December 5th 1867)
- 1957: Erich von Stroheim, actor, scenario writer and Austrian realizer
- 1966: Anna Langfus, écrivaine and resistant Polish (° January 1st 1920)
- 1985: Jean Dubuffet, French painter
- 1992
- Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (° February 2nd 1943)
- Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
- 2001:
- Alexeï Tupolev, Russian aeronautical engineer
- Perry Como, American actor
- 2007:
- Malika El Fassi, Moroccan personality
- Georges Hatz, former footballer French
Celebrations
- international Day of the nurse
First names
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Achilles and Nérée de Terracine (under Trajan), martyrs
- Épiphane de Salamine († towards 403), German archbishop of Cyprus
- of Constantinople († 733), patriarch
- Modoald of Trier († 640), bishop
- Pancrace of Rome († 304)
- Rictrude de Marchiennes († 688), abbess in Flanders
Holy catholic
Orthodoxe saints
- Denys de Radonège († 1633), archimandrite of the laure of the Trinity-Saint-Serge
- Jean the Wallachian († 1662), martyr in Constantinople
See too
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