TODAY IMPORTANCE - 5TH MAY
553 Second Council of Constantinople (5th Ecumenical Council) begins
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1430 Jews expelled from Speer, Germany
1494 Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World, sighted Jamaica and landed at Discovery Bay.
1640 Rise of the English Short Parliament
1646 King Charles I surrenders to Scotland
1726 16-year-old French ballerina Marie de Camargo premieres "Les Caractères de la Danse" at the Paris Opera Ballet.
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