May
On this day in May:
- 1st May 1781: Opening of the fist public baths at Newcastle; where Bath Lane gets its name.
- 1st May 1937; Sunderland AFC win the FA Cup, beating Preston North End 3 - 1.
- 1st May 2010; opening of Seaton Delaval Hall to visitors, following its purchace by the National Trust.
- 3rd May 1952: Newcastle United beat Arsenal 1-0 to win the FA Cup.
- 4th May 1926; start of the national 1926 General Strike.
- 5th May 1973: Sunderland AFC win the FA Cup, beating Leeds United 1-0.
- 6th May 1970; John Dobson Street opened in Newcastle.
- 6th May 1977: President Carter (USA) visists Washington and Newcastle (UK).
- 7th May 1585; Great Fire of Darlington
- 7th May 1955; Newcastle United won the FA Cup, beating Macherster City 3-1.
- 7th May 2002; The Queen opened the Sunderland extension to the Tyne and Wear Metro.
- 7th May 2002; The Queen officially opened the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
- 8th May 1945; VE Day - end of Word War 2 in Europe.
- 11th May 1880: opening of Northumberland Village Homes in Whitley Bay, for destitute girls.
- 14th May 1929: the North East Coast Exhibition opened by the Prince of Wales.
- 14th May 2009; official opening of Infinity Bridge, Stockton.
- 16th May 1928; official opening of the Royal Tweed Bridge by the Prince of Wales.
- 18th May 1918; Blyth Spartan Ladies F.C. won the Munitionettes Cup final.
- 18th May 1983; the third and current Redheugh Bridge, over the Tyne, opened by Princess Diana.
- 20th May 1851; The Durham Markets Company Act passed for establishing new markets in Durham.
- 21st May 1857: Mowbray Park in Sunderland opened by John Candlish, MP
- 22nd May 2008: reopening of the Tyneside Cinema, following a major restoration.
- 23rd May 1751; opening of the first Infirmay in a house in Gallowgate, Newcastle.
- 25th May 1812; over 90 miners were killed by a violent explosion at Felling Colliery.
- 27th May 2000; International Centre for Life, Newcastle, officially opened by the Queen.
- 28th May 2016: First Green Beans Community Market held in Whitley Bay.
- 29th May 1951; Easington Colliery Disaster; an explosion resulted in 83 deaths.
- 30th May 1925; Tynemouth Outdoor Pool Opens.
- 30th May 2000; Middlesbrough Cathederal destroyed by fire
- 31st May 1902; end of the Second Boer War commemorated by the memorial at the Haymarket, Newcastle.
