May 5

May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year.

This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).

Events

  • 553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
  • 1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • 1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
  • 1494 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
  • 1640 King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
  • 1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
  • 1789 In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
  • 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
  • 1809 The Swiss canton of Aargau allowed citizenship to Jews.
  • May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

    May 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 6

    All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

    For May 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 22.

    Saints

  • Great Virgin-martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th century)
  • Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305)
  • Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus
  • Saint Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (c. 386)
  • Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th century)
  • Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (c. 990)
  • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyr Jovinian, the lector of St. Peregrine of Auxerre (c. 304)
  • Saint Brito (Britonius) (386)
  • Saint Nectarius of Vienne, bishop of Vienne (c. 445)
  • Saint Nicetus of Vienne, fifteenth bishop of Vienne (c. 449)
  • Saint Hilarion, Archbishop of Arles (449)
  • Saint Geruntius of Milan (470)
  • Martyr Crescentiana of Rome (5th century)
  • Saint Hydrock (Hydroc) of Cornwall (5th century)
  • Podcasts:

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    i read Your word that some believe is so absurd
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