May 30 Historical Events

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

Found 56 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 70
  Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
• 1381
  Beginning of the Peasants’ Revolt in England.
• 1416
  The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
• 1431
  Hundred Years’ War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
• 1434
  Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
• 1510
  During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
• 1536
  King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
• 1539
  In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
• 1574
  Henry III becomes King of France.
• 1588
  The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
• 1631
  Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
• 1635
  Thirty Years’ War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
• 1642
  From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
• 1806
  Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
• 1814
  Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba.

• 1815
  The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
• 1832
  End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• 1832
  The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 1834
  Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders” in Portugal, earning him the nickname of “The Friar-Killer”.
• 1842
  John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
• 1845
  The Fatel Razack lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indians to the country.
• 1854
  The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
• 1868
  Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern “Memorial Day”) is observed in the United States for the first time (by “Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic” John A. Logan’s proclamation on May 5).
• 1876
  Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• 1883
  In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 1899
  Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1911
  At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 1913
  First Balkan War: The Treaty of London, is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
• 1914
  The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
• 1917
  Alexander I becomes king of Greece.