What happened on 2 May?

15 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1729 Born: Catherine the Great Enlightened despot whose Russia annexed Crimea and partitioned Poland.
2. 2011 Killing of Osama bin Laden US Navy SEAL Team Six raids his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan; bin Laden killed; body buried at sea.
3. 1997 Tony Blair's premiership Labour leader Tony Blair serves as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
4. 1921 Born: Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker; The Apu Trilogy launched modern Indian cinema onto the world stage.
5. 1968 May 1968 protests in France Student and worker protests bring France to a near-standstill; de Gaulle calls snap elections.
6. 1915 Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive Central Powers break Russian lines in Galicia, driving Russia back across Poland.
7. 2010 Greek bailout deals Multiple EU/IMF bailouts of Greece.
8. 1986 The Chernobyl exclusion zone A 30-kilometre circle drawn around the plant in the disaster's first week hardens into a permanent country-sized void: 350,000 people eventually resettled, villages buried, and a z
9. 1670 Hudson's Bay Company chartered Charles II grants a fur-trade monopoly over the watershed of Hudson Bay — a company that would govern a third of Canada for two centuries.
10. 1936 Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf A 'symphonic fairy tale' for a Moscow children's theatre, each character an instrument — written months after Prokofiev's final return to the USSR.
11. 2008 Cyclone Nargis The deadliest named cyclone in the North Indian Ocean devastates Myanmar's delta, killing over 138,000; the junta obstructs relief.
12. 1882 Kilmainham Treaty Jailed in Kilmainham for denouncing the Land Act, Parnell strikes an informal deal with Gladstone — release and relief for tenants in arrears in return for calling off the Land War
13. 1889 Treaty of Wuchale Menelik signs a friendship treaty with Italy whose Italian text makes Ethiopia a protectorate and the Amharic does not — the dispute that leads to Adwa.
14. 1908 Alipore Bomb Case Arrested after a bombing in Muzaffarpur, the revolutionary Aurobindo spends a year in Alipore jail, has a mystical experience, and is acquitted; he soon withdraws from politics to
15. 1918 Ramanujan elected Fellow of the Royal Society Aged thirty and gravely ill, Ramanujan becomes one of the youngest Fellows in the Society's history and the second Indian; he dies two years later.