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, 1851
Day of Week 1st » Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
Day of Week 21st » Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1851
1st » Laza Lazarević, Serbian psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891)
6th » Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (d. 1925)
18th » James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (d. 1908)
20th » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)
21st » Léon Bourgeois, French politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Peace Prize called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
Famous Deaths for May 1851
22nd » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)