What is May 20?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[325]] &ndash; First Council of Nicea: The First Ecumenical Council of the Christian [[Church]] is held. * [[526]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] in [[Syria]] and [[Antiochia]] kills 300,000 people. * [[685]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Dun Nechtain]] is fought between a [[Picts|Pictish]] [[army]] under King Bridei III and the invading [[Northumberland|Northumbrians]] under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. * [[1202]] &ndash; The [[Mediterranean Sea]] area and the [[Middle East]] are shaken by a strong [[earthquake]], which is believed to have killed a million people. * [[1449]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Alfarrobeira]] is fought, establishing the [[House of Braganza]] as the main Royal Family of [[Portugal]]. * [[1497]] &ndash; [[John Cabot]] sets sail from [[Bristol]] to look for a route westwards. * [[1498]] &ndash; Portuguese seafarer [[Vasco da Gama]] arrives in [[Calicut]], now [[Kozhikode]], [[India]]. * [[1506]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] dies, still believing he had reached [[Asia]] on his expeditions. * [[1520]] &ndash; The massacre at the [[Festival]] of Toxcatl occurs during the Fall of [[Tenochtitlan]], turning the [[Aztec]]s against the Spanish. * [[1570]] &ndash; [[Map|Cartographer]] [[Abraham Ortelius]] issues the first [[Atlas]]. * [[1631]] &ndash; The city of [[Magdeburg]] is seized by forces of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and most of the people who live there are massacred, as one of the bloodiest incidents of the [[Thirty Years' War]]. * [[1813]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] leads his French troops into the [[Battle of Bautzen]] in [[Saxony]]. The French troops win the [[battle]] on the next day. * [[1840]] &ndash; [[York Minster]] is badly damaged by [[fire]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Kentucky]] declares its neutrality. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[Abraham Lincoln]] signs the [[Homestead Act]]. * [[1873]] &ndash; [[Levi Strauss]] and [[Jacob Davis]] receive a [[US]] [[patent]] for blue jeans with copper rivets. * [[1875]