Editing May 6 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1659]] &ndash; [[Restoration (England)|English Restoration]]: A [[Wallingford House party|faction]] of the [[British Army]] removes [[Richard Cromwell]] as [[Lord Protector]] of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the [[Rump Parliament]].
*[[1682]] &ndash; [[Louis XIV of France]] moves his court to the [[Palace of Versailles]].
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Battle of Prague (1757)|Battle of Prague]]: A [[Prussian army]] fights an Austrian army in [[Prague]] during the [[Seven Years' War]].
*  1757   &ndash; The end of [[Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War]], and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
*  1757   &ndash; English poet [[Christopher Smart]] is admitted into [[St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics]] in London, beginning [[Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart|his six-year confinement]] to [[Psychiatric hospital|mental asylums]].
*[[1782]] &ndash; Construction begins on the [[Grand Palace]], the royal residence of the [[Monarchy of Thailand|King of Siam]] in [[Bangkok]], at the command of King [[Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke]].
*[[1801]] &ndash; Captain [[Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald|Thomas Cochrane]] in the 14-gun {{HMS|Speedy|1782|6}} [[Action of 6 May 1801|captures]] the 32-gun [[Spanish frigate El Gamo|Spanish frigate ''El Gamo'']].
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[James Gordon Bennett, Sr.]] publishes the first issue of the ''[[New York Herald]]''.
*[[1840]] &ndash; The [[Penny Black]] [[postage stamp]] becomes valid for use in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]].
*[[1857]] &ndash; 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 Independence of 1857|War of Indian Independence]].
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Arkansas in the American Civil War|Arkansas]] secedes from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Battle of Chancellorsville]] ends with a major defeat of the Union's [[Army of the Potomac]] under [[Joseph Hooker]] by the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Army of Northern Virginia]] under [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Battle of Chancellorsville|url=https://www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/historyculture/chist.htm|author=A. Wilson Green|website=NPS.gov|publisher=National Park Service|date=January 22, 2023|access-date=May 17, 2024}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; Chief [[Crazy Horse]] of the [[Oglala Lakota]] surrenders to United States troops in [[Nebraska]].
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant)|Thomas Henry Burke]] and [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]] are stabbed to death by [[Fenian]] assassins in [[Phoenix Park Murders|Phoenix Park, Dublin]].
*  1882   &ndash; The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; The [[Eiffel Tower]] is officially opened to the public at the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Universal Exposition]] in Paris.