Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 1

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 * 880 – The Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople, on which many later cross-in-square Orthodox churches were based, was consecrated.
 * 1576 – Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon were crowned as the elected rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 * 1625 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been captured by the Dutch Republic.
 * 1707 – Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, with a single parliament and government based in Westminster.
 * 1776 – The secret society known as the Order of Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph Freiherr Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
 * 1786 – The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
 * 1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
 * 1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
 * 1900 – A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.
 * 1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
 * 1945 – Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
 * 1947 – Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.
 * 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
 * 1991 – In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.
 * 2016 – The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.


 * Born/died this day: | Paul I Šubić of Bribir |d|1312| Franciscus Junius the Elder |b|1545| François de Troy |d|1730| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |b|1769| Honora Sneyd |d|1780| Adelsteen Normann |b|1848| Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos |b|1860| Ralph Stackpole |b|1885| Henry DeWolf Smyth |b|1898| Ulric Cross |b|1917| Magda Goebbels |d|1945| Ranasinghe Premadasa |d|1993| Aram Khachaturian |d|1978