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- 1533
- A rebuilt Église Sainte-Croix-des-Pelletiers is dedicated in Rouen, France.
- 1751
- In the Connecticut Colony, Litchfield County is created from parts of Fairfield, Hartford, and New Haven counties.
- 1837
- State-owned mining begins in Hohenpeißenberg, Bavaria, with the opening of the Hauptstollen (main adit).
- 1895
- Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, China cedes Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) Islands to Japan.
- 1917
- In Utah, Rich County gains territory from Summit County in an act that would be overturned by the Utah Supreme Court in 1921.
- 1978
- The Marikina School of Arts and Trades becomes the Marikina Institute of Science and Technology in Marikina, Metro Manila.
- 2015
- In Cincinnati, the Dunnhumby Centre is renamed to the 84.51° Centre as its namesake tenant renames to 84.51°.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on May 8, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on May 8 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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