What happened on 6 May?

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

1. 1910 Reign of George V Reign of George V (1910-1936) as monarch of England (later Britain/UK).
2. 1527 Sack of Rome (1527) Mutinous imperial troops sacked Rome; often dated as the end of the High Renaissance.
3. 1758 Born: Maximilien Robespierre Jacobin leader of the Reign of Terror; guillotined after the Thermidorian Reaction.
4. 1839 Turner's The Fighting Temeraire J. M. W. Turner's elegy for a Trafalgar warship being towed to the breakers.
5. 1954 First sub-4-minute mile (Bannister) Roger Bannister runs 3:59.4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.
6. 1536 Manco Inca besieges Cusco The puppet emperor escapes his humiliations and returns with the greatest army the Incas ever fielded — perhaps 100,000 men — trapping 190 Spaniards inside Cusco for ten months. Th
7. 2023 Coronation of Charles III First British coronation in 70 years; the only one most living Britons have seen.
8. 1994 Channel Tunnel opens Britain and France are joined by rail for the first time in geological history.
9. 1937 Hindenburg disaster Airship disaster at Lakehurst, NJ.
10. 1889 1889 Exposition Universelle Paris world's fair celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution.
11. 1953 Born: Tony Blair Labour Prime Minister 1997–2007; Iraq War decision overshadowed his legacy.
12. 1935 Works Progress Administration created The largest New Deal agency, employing millions on public works and arts projects.
13. 2010 2010 UK general election (coalition) Hung parliament; first peacetime coalition since the 1930s, Conservative-Lib Dem under Cameron and Clegg.
14. 1840 Penny Black / uniform penny post Rowland Hill's reform creates the world's first prepaid postage stamp.
15. 2007 Sarkozy elected president of France The interior minister who promised a clean break wins comfortably over Ségolène Royal on the highest turnout in decades.
16. 1682 The French court moves to Versailles Louis XIV makes Versailles the permanent seat of court and government, binding the French nobility to palace ritual and putting royal absolutism on architectural display.