Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 23
May 23: 100th anniversary of the death of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
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- 1430 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was captured at the Siege of Compiègne.
- 1533 - The marriage of Henry VIII of England and his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured) was annulled.
- 1568 - The Eighty Years' War broke out when Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau invaded Friesland in the Battle of Heiligerlee.
- 1934 - American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
- 1945 - End of World War II in Europe: Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz was captured and his Flensburg government was dissolved.
- 2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol was reached after its ratification by Iceland.