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13 May| 13 May 1213 | England, Italy [political events] | King John of England accepts Pope Innocent III's terms for ending the interdict placed on England, to avoid severe political consequences, receiving Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury; he also resigns his kingdom to the Pope and receives it again as a papal fief, promising to pay tribute. | | 13 May 1572 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | Ugo Buoncompagni is elected Pope Gregory XIII, 13 days after the death of his predecessor Pius V. | | 13 May 1779 | Bavaria, Prussia, Habsburg Monarchy [treaties] | The Treaty of Teschen ends the War of the Bavarian Succession. The Habsburg Monarchy obtains the Inn district of Bavaria and agrees to support the reversion of the Hohenzollern principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth to Prussia. | | 13 May 1842 | England [births and deaths] | Arthur Seymour Sullivan, British composer of operettas with William Schwenk Gilbert, born in London, England (–1900). | | 13 May 1846 | USA, Mexico [wars] | The USA makes a formal declaration of war against Mexico over the disputed territory of New Mexico. | | 13 May 1970 | UK [law and government] | The voting age in Britain is lowered from 21 to 18. Susan Wallace becomes the first person under 21 to vote, when she votes in the Bridgwater by-election. | | 13 May 1981 | Vatican [political events] | A Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, seriously wounds Pope John Paul II in an assassination attempt in St Peter's Square, Rome. He is jailed for life on 22 July. | | 13 May 1993 | USA [political events] | The USA formally abandons the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), its attempt to build a laser defence system against ballistic missile attack. | | 13 May 1994 | Israel [political events] | Israel withdraws its military forces from the Jericho area of the occupied West Bank to make way for self-rule by the Palestinian National Authority, as agreed in Washington, DC, in September 1993; five days later, on 18 May, Israeli military forces are withdrawn from the Gaza Strip. | | 13 May 1998 | Europe [advertising] | The European Parliament approves a ban on all tobacco advertising and sponsorship. | | 13 May 1998 | India [weapons] | India conducts three nuclear tests escalating the nuclear arms race in south Asia. |
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