📅 Today in HistoryMay 24

The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.

Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.

The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.

Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.

The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.