May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
May symbols: The birthstone of May is the emerald which is emblematic of love and success. The May birth flower is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna. The mayflower Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Its native range extends from Newfoundland south to Florida, west to Kentucky in the southern range, and to Northwest Territories in the north. The zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus (until May 20) and Gemini (May 21 onwards).
Historical Events for May, 1794
Day of Week 1st » War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French First Republic or French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
Day of Week 7th » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre e.g Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
Day of Week 8th » Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by French Revolution named revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the 'Ferme Générale', is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1794
13th » Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
17th » Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish-English author (d. 1860)
23rd » Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1870)
24th » William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
27th » Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877)
29th » Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
Famous Deaths for May 1794
8th » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)