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On May 7, 351: The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

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The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

In 351–352, the Jews of the Roman province of Syria Palaestina revolted against the rule of Constantius Gallus, brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II and caesar of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The revolt, which occurred during the Roman civil war of 350–353, was crushed by Gallus' general Ursicinus.

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Ashlyn Krueger 2004– American tennis player (born 2004)
Minji 2004– South Korean singer (born 2004)
Jake Bongiovi 2002– American model (born 2002)
Andrew Barth Feldman 2002– American actor and singer (born 2002)
Tommy Fury 1999– British professional boxer and reality television personality (born 1999)
Cody Gakpo 1999– Dutch footballer (born 1999)
MrBeast 1998– American YouTuber (born 1998)
Dani Olmo 1998– Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Jesse Puljujärvi 1998– Finnish ice hockey player (born 1998)
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Daria Kasatkina 1997– Australian tennis player (born 1997)
Youri Tielemans 1997– Belgian footballer (born 1997)
Cameron Young 1997– American professional golfer (born 1997)
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok 1996– South Korean professional esports player (born 1996)
Seko Fofana 1995– Footballer (born 1995)
Will Ospreay 1993– English professional wrestler (born 1993)
Ajla Tomljanovic 1993– Croatian-born Australian tennis player (born 1993)
Alexander Ludwig 1992– Canadian actor (born 1992)
Sydney Leroux 1990– American soccer player (born 1990)

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Died on May 7

Steve Albini American musician and audio engineer (1962–2024)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen Norwegian children's writer (1930–2023)
Frank DiPascali American fraudster (1956–2015)
John Dixon Australian comic book artist and writer (1929–2015)
Neville McNamara Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Defence Force chief
Colin Pillinger English planetary scientist
Dick Welteroth American baseball player (1927–2014)
Ferruccio Mazzola Italian footballer (1945–2013)
George Sauer American football player (1943–2013)
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Sammy Barr Scottish trade unionist (1931–2012)
Ferenc Bartha Hungarian economist
Dennis E. Fitch 1989 aviation accident in Iowa
Seve Ballesteros Spanish professional golfer (1957–2011)
Willard Boyle Canadian applied physicist (1924–2011)
Big George British musician and composer (1957–2011)
Victor Nosach Soviet historian (1929-2011)
Adele Mara American actress (1923–2010)
Wally Hickel American politician (1919–2010)

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  1. 351 The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

    Revolt against Rome (351–352)

    In 351–352, the Jews of the Roman province of Syria Palaestina revolted against the rule of Constantius Gallus, brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II and caesar of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The revolt, which occurred during the Roman civil war of 350–353, was crushed by Gallus' general Ursicinus.

  2. 558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.

    Capital of the Eastern Roman and Ottoman empires

    Constantinople was a historical city located on a peninsula at the southeastern tip of Thrace in Europe; with the Bosporus strait and the ancient cities of Chalcedon and Chrysopolis in Bithynia, Anatolia to the east; the Golden Horn and the citadel of Galata (Pera) to the north; the Sea of Marmara to the south; and the Princes' Islands to the southeast. Constantinople served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires between its consecration in 330 and the formal abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922.

  3. 1104 The Seljuk emirs of Mosul and Mardin defeat the Crusader States of Antioch and Edessa.

    Turco-Persianate empire (1037–1194)

    The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, Turko-Persian empire established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. 9 million square kilometres from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and it spanned the time period 1037–1308, though Seljuk rule beyond the Anatolian peninsula ended in 1194.

  4. 1190 The Crusader army of emperor Frederick Barbarossa defeats an army of the Rum Seljuks in the battle of Philomelion.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190

    Frederick Barbarossa, also known as Frederick I, was the Holy Roman emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24 April 1155 in Pavia and emperor by Pope Adrian IV on 18 June 1155 in Rome.

  5. 1274 In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.

    14th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church (1272–74)

    The Second Council of Lyon was the fourteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convoked on 31 March 1272 and convened in Lyon, Kingdom of Arles, in 1274. Pope Gregory X presided over the council, called to act on a pledge by Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to reunite the Eastern church with the West. The council was attended by about 300 bishops, 60 abbots and more than a thousand prelates or their procurators among whom were the representatives of the universities.

  6. 1342 In Avignon, France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is elected Pope and takes the name Clement VI.
  7. 1487 The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
  8. 1544 The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.
  9. 1625 State funeral of James VI and I (1566–1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.
  10. 1664 Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV's new Palace of Versailles.
  11. 1685 Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
  12. 1697 Stockholm's medieval castle Tre Kronor is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
  13. 1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
  14. 1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
  15. 1765 HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.
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  1. 1794 French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
  2. 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.
  3. 1824 World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
  4. 1832 Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.
  5. 1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
  6. 1864 American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
  7. 1864 The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
  8. 1895 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
  9. 1915 World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  10. 1915 The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  11. 1920 Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  12. 1920 Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  13. 1930 The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
  14. 1931 The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
  15. 1937 Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

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