WHAT HAPPENED ON 11. MAY
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Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. (11. May 330)

A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book. (11. May 868)

Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. (11. May 912)

In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics. (11. May 1310)

Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies. (11. May 1502)

Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. (11. May 1647)

War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. (11. May 1745)

Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. (11. May 1792)

Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. (11. May 1812)

In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. (11. May 1813)

HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. (11. May 1820)

President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War (11. May 1846)

Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. (11. May 1857)

Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. (11. May 1858)

American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. (11. May 1862)

Luxembourg gains its independence. (11. May 1867)

Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California (11. May 1880)

The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark. (11. May 1891)

Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. (11. May 1894)

32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. (11. May 1907)