What happened on 28 May?

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

1. 1588 Spanish Armada Philip II's invasion fleet defeated in the Channel by English ships and storms; emblem of Elizabethan England.
2. 1937 Neville Chamberlain's premiership Appeasement, Munich and the declaration of war: the premiership that gave the word a meaning.
3. 1830 Trail of Tears Forced removal of the Cherokee and other South-eastern Native American nations from their ancestral lands to territory west of the Mississippi, with thousands dying en route.
4. 1830 Trail of Tears begins Conventional start of Trail of Tears.
5. 1660 Born: George I of Great Britain First Hanoverian king, who barely spoke English and relied heavily on his ministers.
6. 1588 The Armada sails from Lisbon One hundred and thirty ships and 30,000 men leave Lisbon under the Duke of Medina Sidonia — a reluctant admiral who told the king he got seasick. The plan: sweep the Channel, colle
7. 1358 Jacquerie peasant revolt Major peasant uprising in northern France against the nobility.
8. 1754 Jumonville Glen: a world war begins in the woods In the Pennsylvania backcountry, a 22-year-old Virginia militia colonel named George Washington ambushes a French party and a diplomatic envoy dies in the confusion — a fifteen-min
9. 2013 Gezi Park protests A sit-in against redevelopment in Istanbul erupts into nationwide anti-government protests, a turning point in Erdoğan-era polarisation.
10. 1759 Born: William Pitt the Younger Britain's youngest Prime Minister; in office during the wars against Revolutionary France.
11. 1964 PLO founded The Palestine Liberation Organization is created to pursue Palestinian self-determination, central to the conflict ever since.
12. 1453 The defenders' last council On the eve of the assault, Orthodox and Catholic worship together in Hagia Sophia one final time, their long schism forgotten, and Constantine XI rides the walls asking his 8,000 d
13. 1520 Cortés defeats the Narváez expedition Cuba sends nineteen ships to arrest Cortés; he night-marches to the coast, routs the much larger force, and recruits it — returning to Tenochtitlan with his army tripled. But the d
14. 1830 Indian Removal Act Andrew Jackson signs the act authorising the forced exchange of Native lands east of the Mississippi for territory in the west — the legal foundation of the removals that became th
15. 2008 Nepal abolishes the monarchy Nepal's constituent assembly ends the 240-year Shah dynasty and declares a federal republic, closing the world's last Hindu kingdom.