221 years - Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu and established the Shu Han Dynasty.
1525 - The peasant uprising army led by German religious reform leader Münzer was defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasant War.
1636 - Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Chongde, so this year was the first year of Chongde; the country's name was changed from Jin to "Qing"; the clan name was changed to "Manchuria"; the capital was established in Shenyang.
He was titled "Emperor Kuanwenrenrensheng." 1756 - Britain declared war on France, and the Seven Years' War broke out.
1767 - Genoa sells Corsica to France.
1871 - Germany promulgated Article 175, beginning the history of persecution of homosexuals in Germany.
Until the regulations were repealed in 1994, tens of thousands of homosexuals were victimized or killed as a result of the regulations.
1878 - The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded in Japan.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, was completed and opened.
1896 - Shanhaiguan Railway School, now Southwest Jiaotong University, was founded.
1904 - The Red Cross Society of China was founded: the Qing court ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a note to Switzerland, stating that it was willing to join the Red Cross Treaty.
On May 24, the Qing government allocated 100,000 taels as the opening expenses of the Red Cross Society.
1905 - "Las Vegas", known as the world's entertainment capital, sin city, and gambling city, was officially established.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court made an epoch-making ruling: it held that Standard Oil Company had a monopoly on trade and ordered it to be dissolved within six months.
1912 - The Capital University was renamed Peking University, and Yan Fu was appointed president.
1918 - Lu Xun published China's first vernacular novel "A Madman's Diary".
1926 - The Kuomintang held the Second Plenary Session of the Second Central Committee in Guangzhou.
Chiang Kai-shek proposed a plan to organize party affairs at the meeting. At this point, after taking control of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Chiang then usurped party power, political power, and military power.
1932 - Young fascist officers of the Japanese Navy launched an armed coup, known as the "May 15th" coup.
1936 - Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg serves as leader of Austria's only legal political party, the Fatherland Front, thereby consolidating his country's rule.
1940------The entire Netherlands was controlled by the German army.
1943 - The Soviet Union disbanded its worldwide communist organization, the Communist International.
1946 - "People's Daily", the official newspaper of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region of the Communist Party of China, was founded and published in Handan and Wu'an, Hebei.
1949 - Zhang Zhen, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Central China Suppression and Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Appeasement Zone, led his troops to stage an uprising near Wuhan.
1955 - The Austrian State Treaty ends foreign control.
For the first time in 17 years, the Austrian general retained only the Austrian army.
1957 - May 1957 While carrying out the rectification movement, starting from May 15, 1957, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued three decisions on cadres' participation in labor. Millions of cadres across the country were sent to rural areas, industries and mines.
Enterprises participate in labor.
1959 - Scientists warned today that blue whales will become extinct in five years if no restrictions are imposed on the worldwide whaling industry.
1960 - The central government issued the "Instructions on Carrying out the "Three Antis" Movement in Rural Areas."
1972 - The United States transferred the "governing power" of Ryukyu to Japan.
1972—Yara Asanae becomes the first-generation governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
1980 - The People's Republic of China resumed its legal seats in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 1989 - Gorbachev visited China. 1990 - The Philippines announced the suspension of the agreement on US military bases in the Philippines. 1990 -
- The oil painting "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" created by Van Gogh was auctioned to a Japanese collector for US$82.5 million in New York, USA, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a painting at the time.
1991 - Madame Cresson, the first female Prime Minister of France, takes office. 1999 - Ho Hau Wah is elected as the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region. 2002 - The main fleet consists of the "Qingdao" ship and the "Taicang" ship, departing from Qingdao Port.
Set sail and embark on a journey around the world.
In 132 days, the fleet sailed 33,000 nautical miles, crossed the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean, passed through 15 straits and waterways, and visited 10 ports in 10 countries on five continents.
It set four records and many firsts in the history of the People's Navy: the longest visit, the longest voyage, the most complex sea area involved, and the most waterways and ports; the first visit with bombs, and the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
2006 - Baidu Tieba's 100 millionth post was born. 2007 - Thomson Group reached an agreement on mergers and acquisitions with Reuters. This merger and acquisition transaction involved a total amount of up to 8.7 billion pounds.
2008 - An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria killed 100 people.