What happened on 7 May?

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

1. 1824 Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) Final symphony, ending with Schiller's Ode to Joy.
2. 1945 German Instrument of Surrender Germany signs unconditional surrender at Reims and Berlin-Karlshorst; V-E Day.
3. 1711 Born: David Hume Scottish empiricist philosopher whose scepticism shaped modern epistemology.
4. 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania German U-boat sinks the British liner; 128 Americans killed.
5. 1919 Born: Eva Peron Argentine first lady and political force; champion of workers and women's suffrage.
6. 1895 Wells's The Time Machine Foundational time-travel science-fiction novella.
7. 1861 Born: Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath; first non-European Nobel literature laureate.
8. 1487 The siege of Málaga Granada's great port holds out for three brutal months against the largest siege train yet assembled in Spain — and pays the price the monarchs set for defiance: virtually the whol
9. 1892 Born: Josip Broz Tito Yugoslav Partisan leader and post-war head of state who held a multi-ethnic federation together for 35 years. Broke with Stalin in 1948 to found the Non-Aligned Movement; Yugoslavi
10. 1940 The Norway Debate topples Chamberlain Two days of Commons fury over the Norwegian fiasco — Leo Amery hurling Cromwell across the chamber: 'In the name of God, go!' — cut Chamberlain's majority from 200 to 81. He resign
11. 1833 Born: Johannes Brahms German Romantic composer who brought new weight to symphony and chamber music.
12. 2017 Macron elected president of France A 39-year-old who had never held elected office beats Marine Le Pen two to one, having founded his party barely a year earlier.
13. 1918 Treaty of Bucharest (1918) Peace between Romania and Central Powers; later annulled.