May 6

Events

Pre-1600

* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
*1541 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
*1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
* 1593 – The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.

1601–1900

* 1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
*1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
* 1757 – Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
* 1757 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
* 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
* 1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate ''El Gamo''.
* 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the ''New York Herald''.
*1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
*1857 – The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
*1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
*1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
* 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
* 1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
* 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1901–present

*1901 – The first issue of '' Gorkhapatra,'' the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper was published.
* 1906 – The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
*1910 – George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
*1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
* 1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY ''Aurora'' broke loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.
*1916 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
* 1916 – Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
*1933 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
*1935 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
*1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin ''Hindenburg'' catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey

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