WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. MAY
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Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo. (6. May 1527)

The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish. (6. May 1536)

King Henry VIII of England orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. (6. May 1536)

Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time. (6. May 1542)

English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament. (6. May 1659)

Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles. (6. May 1682)

Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War. (6. May 1757)

The end of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757). (6. May 1757)

English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums. (6. May 1757)

Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke. (6. May 1782)

Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo. (6. May 1801)

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald. (6. May 1835)

The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (6. May 1840)

The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens. (6. May 1844)

The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence. (6. May 1857)

American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union. (6. May 1861)

American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America. (6. May 1861)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops. (6. May 1863)

Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. (6. May 1877)

Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin. (6. May 1882)