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• 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
• 1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
• 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
• 1619Events May 13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. July 30 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. - Dutch statesman Johan van OldenbarneveltJohan van Oldenbarnevelt ( September 14, 1547 May 13, 1619) was a Dutch statesman, who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. Born in Amersfoort, Van Oldenbarnevelt studied law at several universities throughout Europe is executed in The HagueThis article is about the city in the Netherlands; there is also a region known as (the) Hague in France. The Hague ( Dutch: Den Haag or officially 's-Gravenhage is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the after having been accused of treason.
• 1779Events The Iron Bridge is completed across the Severn river in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed. Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine, now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service. The city of Tampere is fo - War of Bavarian Succession : RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn and FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn DistrictGerman: Innviertel Small Austrian territory southeast of the Inn river. The Inn District belonged to Bavaria until 1778. In consequence of the War of Bavarian Succession it was ceded to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The major city in the Inn District is).
• 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• 1830 - Ecuador gains its independence.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• 1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca - the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war ends with a Union victory.
• 1880 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway .
• 1888 - Brazil abolishes slavery.
• 1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established.
• 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four engine aircraft.
• 1917 - Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
• 1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
• 1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
• 1943 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
• 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre was an atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel.
• 1958 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
• 1958 - Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1958 - Velcro's trade mark is registered.
• 1960 - First ascent of Dhaulagiri, World's 7th highest mountain.
• 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
• 1981 - Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
• 1985 - Philadelphia's mayor orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
• 1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• 1998 - Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
• 2000 - 22 people die after an explosion in a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands.
• 2000 - At Fatima, Portugal, Pope John Paul II revealed the Third Secret given by the Blessed Virgin Mary to three Portuguese peasant children in 1917 was his own attempted assassination by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peters Square, Rome, on 13 May 1981. The apparitions at Fatima had commenced on 13 May 1917.