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, 1876
Day of Week 2nd » The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
Day of Week 30th » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1876
10th » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (d. 1918)
18th » Hermann Müller (politician) e.g Hermann Müller, German politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) called Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
22nd » Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (d. 1963)
27th » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
27th » William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
Famous Deaths for May 1876
7th » William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
12th » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
19th » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)