WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. MAY
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Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love. (13. May 1373)

Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich. (13. May 1515)

Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. (13. May 1568)

Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. (13. May 1619)

Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed. (13. May 1648)

War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel). (13. May 1779)

The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee. (13. May 1780)

Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia. (13. May 1787)

Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city. (13. May 1804)

Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia. (13. May 1830)

Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. (13. May 1846)

First performance of Finland's national anthem. (13. May 1848)

American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights. (13. May 1861)

The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. (13. May 1861)

Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. (13. May 1861)

The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first man with dark skin to command a United States ship. (13. May 1862)

American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia. (13. May 1864)

American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. (13. May 1865)

In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. (13. May 1880)

With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery. (13. May 1888)