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Historical Events on May 31

  • American Revolution

    1775

    American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.

  • French Revolution

    1795

    French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.

  • American Civil War

    1862

    American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the "Battle of Fair Oaks": Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.

  • Plymouth

    1884

    The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria

  • Second Boer War

    1902

    Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.

  • World War I

    1916

    World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.

  • Tulsa race riot

    1921

    Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.

  • Soviet Union

    1924

    The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.

  • World War II

    1942

    World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.

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