What is May 6?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1191]] &ndash; King [[Richard I of England]] lands in [[Cyprus]] during the [[Third Crusade]]. * [[1527]] &ndash; Spanish and German troops sack [[Rome]], in what is seen by some to be the end of the [[Renaissance]]. * [[1536]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Cuzco]] starts, in which [[Inca]]n forces attempt to re–take the [[city]] from the [[Spain|Spanish]]. * [[1536]] &ndash; [[Henry VIII of England]] orders that [[English language]] [[Bible]]s should be placed in every [[church]]. * [[1542]] &ndash; St. [[Francis Xavier]] reaches Old [[Goa]], capital city of what was then known as [[Portuguese India]]. * [[1659]] &ndash; English Restoration: A faction of the [[army]] removes [[Richard Cromwell]] as Lord Protector and re–instates the [[Rump Parliament]]. * [[1682]] &ndash; King [[Louis XIV of France]] moves into the [[Versailles]] Palace. * [[1757]] &ndash; [[Battle of Prague]]: A [[Prussia]]n [[army]] fights an [[Austria]]n [[army]] in [[Prague]] during the [[Seven Years' War]]. * [[1782]] &ndash; Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the [[King]]s of [[Siam]], present–day [[Thailand]], in [[Bangkok]]. * [[1816]] &ndash; The [[American Bible Society]] is founded. * [[1835]] &ndash; [[James Gordon Bennett, Sr.]] publishes the first issue of the [[New York Herald]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; The [[Penny Black]] postage stamp becomes valid in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. * [[1844]] &ndash; The [[Glaciarum]], the world's first mechanically frozen [[ice]] rink, opens. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Arkansas]] secedes from the [[United States|Union]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Richmond, Virginia]] is chosen as the capital city of the [[Confederate States of America]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Chancellorsville]] ends with the [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] defeating the [[Army of the Potomac]]. * [[1882]] &ndash; [[United States Congress]] passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. * [[1889]] &ndash; The [[Eif