What happend on 15th May

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1718

James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.

1701

The War of the Spanish Succession begins.

1618

Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

1602

Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.

1525

The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.

1514

Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

1252

Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.