Editing May 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]] and [[List of Danish monarchs|Danish King]] [[Christian IV of Denmark|Christian IV]] sign the [[Treaty of Lübeck]] ending Danish intervention in the [[Thirty Years' War]].
*[[1762]] &ndash; Sweden and [[Prussia]] sign the [[Treaty of Hamburg (1762)|Treaty of Hamburg]].
*  1762   &ndash; [[Trevi Fountain]] is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carlson|first=Victor|title=Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=National Gallery of Art|date=1978|oclc=299971200|page=9|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=d'Onofrio|first1=Cesare|last2=Dellacher|first2=Max|title=Le fontane di Roma: con documenti e disegni inediti|location=Rome|publisher=Staderini Editioni|date=1957|oclc=249113666|page=viii|postscript=none}}; {{cite journal|last=Cooke|first=H. L.|title=The Documents Relating to the Fountain of Trevi|journal=Art Bulletin|volume=38|issue=3|date=1956|pages=149–173 at 168|doi=10.1080/00043079.1956.11408329}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; A [[1766 Istanbul earthquake|large earthquake]] causes heavy damage and loss of life in [[Istanbul]] and the Marmara region.<ref name="Ambraseys2000">{{Cite journal|title=Seismicity of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) since 1500|author1=N. N. Ambraseys|author-link=Nicholas Ambraseys|author2=J. A. Jackson|language=en|journal=Geophysical Journal International|volume=141|issue=3|pages=F1|date=June 2000|bibcode=2000GeoJI.141F...1A|doi=10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00137.x|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] officially begins as the [[Corps of Discovery]] departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
*[[1807]] &ndash; A [[grand jury]] indicts former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] on a charge of [[treason]].
*[[1809]] &ndash; On the second and last day of the [[Battle of Aspern-Essling]] (near [[Vienna]], Austria), [[Napoleon]] I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade.
*[[1816]] &ndash; A mob in [[Littleport, Cambridgeshire]], England, [[Ely and Littleport riots of 1816|riots]] over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]] the next day.
*[[1819]] &ndash; {{SS|Savannah}} leaves port at [[Savannah, Georgia]], United States, on a voyage to become the first [[steamship]] to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1826]] &ndash; {{HMS|Beagle}} departs on its first voyage.
*[[1840]] &ndash; The [[penal transportation]] of British [[convict]]s to the [[New South Wales]] [[colony]] is abolished.
*[[1846]] &ndash; The [[Associated Press]] is formed in [[New York City]] as a non-profit news cooperative.
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[History of Martinique#1815–1899|Slavery is abolished]] in [[Martinique]].
*[[1849]] &ndash; Future [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] is issued a [[patent]] for an [[Abraham Lincoln's patent|invention to lift boats]], making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[Preston Brooks]] of [[South Carolina]] [[Caning of Charles Sumner|severely beats]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Charles Sumner]] of [[Massachusetts]] with a cane in the hall of the [[United States Senate]] for a speech Sumner had made regarding  [[Southern United States|Southerners]] and [[slavery in the United States|slavery]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces begin the [[Siege of Port Hudson]] which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: After ten weeks, the [[Union Army]]'s [[Red River Campaign]] ends in failure.
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Oliver Winchester]] founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Reconstruction Era]]: President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] signs the [[Amnesty Act]] into law, restoring full [[civil and political rights]] to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
*[[1874]] &ndash; Verdi's [[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]] was first performed at [[San Marco, Milan|San Marco]] in Milan on the first anniversary of [[Alessandro Manzoni|Manzoni]]'s death.<ref>[http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/visInglese/page.asp?IDCategoria=3648&IDSezione=25716 ''Messa da Requiem''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000140/http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/visInglese/page.asp?IDCategoria=3648&IDSezione=25716 |date=2013-12-31 }}, on giuseppeverdi.it. Retrieved 29 December 2013</ref>