Occult:This month in history/May

Saint Joan of Arc

• May 2 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. (1536)
• May 2 - German Jesuit scholar and author Athanasius Kircher is born. (1602)
• May 4 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. (1415)
• May 7 - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón is born. (1919)
• May 8 - Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. (1429)
• May 9 - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann successfully retrieves his diabolical pact from Satan with the help of an exorcist. (1678)
• May 10 - Antoine Court de Gébelin, author who wrote an early treatise on the Tarot, dies in Paris. (1784)
• May 12 - The Donner Party departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism. (1846)
• May 13 - Psychic Jeane Dixon predicts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an issue of Parade Magazine. (1956)
• May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. (1920)
• May 19 - Arthur Edward Waite, creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot, dies. (1942)
• May 23 - A merchant of Shiraz, the forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith, announces that he is a prophet and founds a religious movement. (1844)
• May 23 - German physician and astrologer, Franz Mesmer, is born. (1734)
• May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus dies. (1543)
• May 26 - Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. (1896)
• May 31 - Occultist and author Éliphas Lévi dies. (1875)