Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in England and is detained by Elizabeth
Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England and was detained on Elizabeth’s orders, beginning nearly nineteen years of confinement.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England and was detained on Elizabeth’s orders, beginning nearly nineteen years of confinement.
View detailsMaria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan, Italy, the eldest of a wealthy silk merchant's many children, and would become a celebrated mathematician.
View detailsOfficial wedding ceremony to Louis-Auguste at Versailles, became dauphine of France.
View detailsMarried the future Louis XVI at Versailles at age 14, sealing the Franco-Austrian alliance.
View detailsLife‑raft patent specification recorded her as an inventor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
View detailsFirst woman known to patent a life raft, a milestone in maritime safety tech.
View detailsGranted U.S. patent No. 258,191 for her life raft with collapsible metal floats, later used on ships like the Titanic.
View detailsMorgan became the first woman to earn a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
View detailsTamara de Lempicka was born in Warsaw, which she often romanticized.
View detailsOlga Fyodorovna Berggolts was born on 16 May 1910 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into a family of a factory doctor of German descent.
View detailsU.S. Court of Claims dismisses Liliuokalani v. United States, rejecting her crown land compensation claim.
View detailsCanonization of Joan of Arc as a saint by Pope Benedict XV.
View detailsExecuted by firing squad in Krasnoyarsk on May 16, 1920.
View detailsZona Gale was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "Miss Lulu Bett," becoming the first woman ever to win the award.
View detailsBecame the 16th woman in the US to be issued a pilot's license (No. 6017) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
View detailsJoyner submitted her petition and drawings to the U.S. Patent Office for her permanent wave machine.
View detailsAlice Kober died at age 43, before completing her decipherment work on Linear B, which was finished by Michael Ventris in 1952.
View detailsJoan Benoit was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on May 16, 1957.
View detailsMary Carson Breckinridge died in Hyden, Kentucky.
View detailsBlanch recorded a Smithsonian oral history interview, preserving her firsthand account of the Mathematical Tables Project and early computing.
View detailsJunko Tabei became the first woman in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 16, 1975.
View detailsTabei's Everest ascent brought her worldwide fame, establishing her as an enduring symbol of women's advancement in mountaineering.
View detailsTabei reached Everest's summit just days after surviving a near-fatal avalanche that buried her expedition's camp.
View detailsOn May 16, 1977, Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute.
View detailsQueen Elizabeth addressed Congress, a precedent in U.S-UK relations.
View detailsSummited Makalu (8,465 m) on May 16, 2002, her second eight-thousander.
View detailsHer radio play *Jackie* was awarded the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden.
View detailsRashad received the Drama Desk Award for 'A Raisin in the Sun' in 2004.
View detailsAwarded Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage.
View detailsRobinson was promoted to four-star general, positioning her to become the first female four-star commander of combat forces.
View detailsThe New Yorker published a retrospective essay on her life.
View detailsThe Vegetarian wins the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, the first Korean-language novel and first for a Korean author to win this award.
View detailsReceives James Beard Award for "Martha Cooks" on May 16, 2024.
View detailsFirst Asian American to coach a WNBA game with Valkyries.
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