WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. MAY
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The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II of Spain. (1. May 1856)

American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans. (1. May 1862)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins. (1. May 1863)

The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance (1. May 1865)

The Folies Bergère opens in Paris. (1. May 1869)

Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873. (1. May 1875)

Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. (1. May 1884)

Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States. (1. May 1884)

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business. (1. May 1885)

Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day culminating in the Haymarket Affair. (1. May 1886)

The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago. (1. May 1893)

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C. (1. May 1894)

Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war. (1. May 1898)

The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history. (1. May 1900)

The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York. (1. May 1901)

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany. (1. May 1915)

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members. (1. May 1925)

The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (1. May 1925)

The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. (1. May 1927)

The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor. (1. May 1927)