May 1: International Workers' Day; Beltane in Ireland and Scotland; Law Day and Loyalty Day in the United States
- 880 – The Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople was consecrated, and went on to set the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
- 1753 – Carl Linnaeus (pictured) published his Species Plantarum, which, with his earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern botanical nomenclature.
- 1865 – Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina signed a treaty creating an alliance against Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
- 1985 – Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
More anniversaries: April 30 – May 1 – May 2
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