What happened on 5 May?

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

1. 1821 Death of Napoleon Died on Saint Helena on 5 May 1821; later reinterred at Les Invalides.
2. 1813 Born: Soren Kierkegaard Danish philosopher, theologian and cultural critic; widely regarded as the first existentialist; author of Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death.
3. 2023 End of COVID PHEIC WHO ends the global health emergency for COVID-19.
4. 1789 Estates-General of 1789 convoked Louis XVI summons the Estates-General at Versailles for the first time since 1614; triggers the constitutional crisis.
5. 1646 Charles I surrenders to the Scots His field armies destroyed and Oxford besieged, Charles I slips out in disguise and gives himself up to the Scottish army at Newark — gambling he can split his enemies. After eight
6. 1961 Alan Shepard: first American in space Three weeks after Gagarin, Freedom 7 arcs fifteen minutes over the Atlantic; twenty days later Kennedy commits America to the Moon.