Portal:Society/Selected anniversaries/May


 * 1 May 1776 - Foundation of the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society
 * 1 May 1869 - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society elects its first woman member
 * 7 May 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (pictured) first makes reference to the Great Society
 * 10 May 1793 - Society of Revolutionary Republican Women officially registered at the Paris Commune