Events in May

2 May
1889: Lower Columbia declares war on the Republic of Mainland.

5 May
2013: David Owls kills four people, including his wife, and injures 18, including his daughter, in an alcohol-fueled vehicular massacre.

6 May
1800: John II is born to King Brandon I at Kendall Palace in Lower Columbia.

7 May
1975: James Francos, Phil Hanson, and Anders Nielsen detonate multiple bombs around Kirkebakken, Lovedelund, killing 57 and injuring 203.

8 May
1913: Calgariana becomes the 15th state of Lower Columbia.

11 May
1887: The siege of Vancouver, the capital of Gudland, begins after the city of Richmond falls to Lower Columbian troops.

18 May
1888: The Gudland War ends when Lower Columbian soldiers capture the last Gudlander resistance fighter in the Olympic Mountains.

19 May
2013: A human trafficking boat capsizes off Loisel Island, New Holland, killing 44 of the 120 aboard.

27 May
1886: The Royal Lower Columbian Army captures the city of Anacortes during the Gudland War.

28 May
1863: The Sixth Amendment to the Lower Columbian Constitution is ratified.