What is May 31?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1279 BC]] &ndash; [[Rameses II]] (the Great) becomes [[Pharaoh]] of [[Egypt]]. * [[455]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Petronius Maximus]] is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing [[Rome]]. * [[526]] &ndash; [[Antioch]], [[Turkey]] is hit by an [[earthquake]] kills 250,000 people. * [[1578]] &ndash; [[Henry II of France]] lays the first stone of the [[Point Neuf]] (New Bridge) in [[Paris]]. * [[1578]] &ndash; [[Martin Frobisher]] sails from Harwich, [[England]] to Frobisher Bay, [[Canada]] to mine [[fool's gold]], used to pave the streets in [[London]]. * [[1669]] &ndash; Citing poor eye[[sight]], [[Samuel Pepys]] makes the last entry in his diary. * [[1740]] &ndash; [[Frederick II of Prussia]] becomes [[King]]. * [[1790]] &ndash; [[Alferez Manuel Quimper]] explores the strait of [[Juan de Fuca]]. * [[1795]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[Revolution]]ary [[Tribunal]] is suppressed. * [[1813]] &ndash; In [[Australia]], [[William Lawson]], [[Gregory Blaxland]] and [[William Wentworth]] reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route crossing the [[Blue Mountains]] in [[New South Wales]]. * [[1854]] &ndash; The [[civil death]] procedure is banned in [[France]]. * [[1859]] &ndash; [[Big Ben]] in [[London]], [[UK]] starts keeping time. * [[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Cold Harbor]]. * [[1884]] &ndash; [[John Harvey Kellogg]] receives a [[patent]] for [[Cornflakes]]. * [[1889]] &ndash; [[Johnstown flood]]: A dam break causes a flash [[flood]] in [[Johnstown]], [[Pennsylvania]], killing more than 2,000 people. * [[1890]] &ndash; In [[Ulm]], southern [[Germany]], [[Ulm Minster]], the city's [[cathedral]], is completed. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1902]] &ndash; The [[Second Boer War]] ends, through the [[Treaty of Vereeniging]], ensuring British control over [[South Africa]]. * [[1906]] &ndash; An attack on the wedding of [[King]] [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]] kills more than 20 people. * [[1910]] &ndash; The Union of [[So