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August 30 Historical Events

The following events took place on August 30. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 526
    King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
  • 1282
    Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
  • 1363
    Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
  • 1464
    Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
  • 1574
    Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
  • 1590
    Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
  • 1727
    Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
  • 1791
    HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  • 1799
    The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
  • 1800
    Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
  • 1813
    First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
  • 1813
    Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
  • 1835
    Melbourne is founded.
  • 1836
    The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
  • 1862
    American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
  • 1873
    Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
  • 1896
    Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
  • 1897
    The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
  • 1909
    Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • 1914
    World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
  • 1917
    Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • 1918
    Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
  • 1922
    Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
  • 1940
    The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
  • 1942
    World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
  • 1945
    Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
  • 1945
    The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
  • 1945
    The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
  • 1945
    The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
  • 1956
    The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

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