Editing May 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[Death and funeral of James VI and I|State funeral]] of [[James VI and I]] (1566–1625) is held at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>Jennifer Woodward, ''The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England ''(Boydell, 1997), p. 175.</ref>
*[[1664]] &ndash; Inaugural celebrations begin at [[Louis XIV of France]]'s new [[Palace of Versailles]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Varick Dock|title=Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière: A Seventeenth-century Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7tcAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Slatkine|isbn=978-2-05-101196-9|page=114}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Battle of Vrtijeljka]] between rebels and Ottoman forces.
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Stockholm]]'s royal castle (dating back to [[Middle Ages|medieval]] times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current [[Stockholm Palace|Royal Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mårten Snickare|title=Tessin: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger : Royal Architect and Visionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBzqAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Nationalmuseum|isbn=978-91-7100-671-4|page=111}}</ref>
*[[1718]] &ndash; The city of [[New Orleans]] is founded by [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Ambe J. Njoh|title=French Urbanism in Foreign Lands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r64vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=10 December 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-25298-8|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's War]] begins with [[Pontiac (Ottawa leader)|Pontiac]]'s attempt to [[Siege of Fort Detroit|seize]] [[Fort Detroit]] from the British.
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[HMS Victory]] is launched at [[Chatham Dockyard]], Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Navy- HMS Victory |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/features/trafalgar-day/hms-victory#:~:text=HMS%20Victory%20HMS%20Victory%2C%20the,Trafalgar%20on%2021%20October%201805.}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]] introduces the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]] in the [[National Convention]] as the new [[state religion]] of the [[French First Republic]].
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the [[Îles Saint-Marcouf]] is  [[Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf|repulsed with heavy losses]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Woodman | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Woodman | year = 2001 | title = The Sea Warriors | publisher = Constable Publishers | pages =103–04 |isbn = 1-84119-183-3}}</ref>
*[[1824]] &ndash; World premiere of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] in [[Vienna]], Austria. The performance is conducted by [[Michael Umlauf]] under the composer's supervision.<ref>{{cite book | first=Peter | last=Clive | title=Beethoven and his World: a Biographical Dictionary | place=New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-19816-672-6 | page=375}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; Greece's independence is recognized by the [[Treaty of London, 1832|Treaty of London]]. 
*[[1840]] &ndash; The [[Great Natchez Tornado]] strikes [[Natchez, Mississippi]] killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest [[tornado]] in United States history.
*[[1846]] &ndash; The ''[[Cambridge Chronicle]]'', America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Army of the Potomac]], under General [[Ulysses S. Grant]], breaks off from the [[Battle of the Wilderness]] and moves southwards.
*  1864   &ndash; The world's oldest surviving [[clipper]] ship, the ''[[City of Adelaide (1864)|City of Adelaide]]'' is launched by [[William Pile (shipbuilder)|William Pile, Hay and Co.]] in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
*[[1895]] &ndash; In [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian scientist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov [[lightning]] detector—a primitive [[radio receiver]]. In some parts of the former [[Soviet Union]] the anniversary of this day is celebrated as [[Radio Day]].