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March 30 in history

169 sourced entries recorded on March 30, from 87 BCE to 2021 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 87 BCEThe eight-year-old Liu Fuling becomes emperor, with Huo Guang General-in-Chief and regent.source
  • 365Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Feidi, age 23, succeeds his brother Jin Aidi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He has no actual power; governmental matters are largely in the hands of his granduncle Sima Yu.source
  • 598Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege of the fortress city of Tomis (modern Romania). A Byzantine army under Comentiolus crosses the Balkan Mountains, and marches along the Danube River to Zikidiba.source
  • 1294Third Swedish Crusade: a Novgorodian army led by Prince Roman Glebovich attempts a storm of Vyborg, but the attack fails.source
  • 1296Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including those who flee to the churches.source
  • 1342Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie captured Roxburgh Castle.source
  • 1368Mamluk raid on Cyprus (1368): Ibrahim al-Tazi completes raid by Egypt's Mamluk Sultanate on the Kingdom of Cyprus and begins sending back captured treasure.source
  • 1414The rebellion by Vietnamese Emperor Tran Quy Khoang against the Ming dynasty Chinese occupying armies comes to an end when Tran is captured and imprisoned by General Zhang Fu, marking a turning point in the Ming–Việt War.source
  • 1493In light of his success, Christopher Columbus is granted the title of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" ("Almirante del mar Océano") and "Viceroy and Governor of the islands which he has discovered in the Indies".source
  • 1504The Eisho era begins in Japan during the reign of Emperor Go-Kashiwabara as the Bunki era ends.source
  • 1506King Vladislaus II of Hungary and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor sign a treaty to arrange the marriage of Vladislaus's daughter and Maximilian's son.source
  • 1533Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1534The Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 becomes law in England, requiring submission of the clergy, that is, churchmen are to submit to the king and the publication of ecclesiastical laws without royal permission is forbidden.source
  • 1539Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons.source
  • 1603The Nine Years War (Ireland) is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown, and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.source
  • 1631The king at Dijon accuses accomplices of Gaston of Orléans of lèse-majesté.source
  • 1675The guild organisation Maîtresses couturières is founded in Paris.source
  • 1675The guild organisation Maîtresses couturières is founded in Paris.source
  • 1680A total eclipse of the Sun takes place and is visible over central Africa, with totality over the Opala Territory in the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.source
  • 1700second Darien expedition abandoned.source
  • 1703Catherine Price, sister of Richard Price, marries William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd; they would become the parents of Ann Maddocks.source
  • 1712Anne, Queen of Great Britain administers the Royal touch (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson.source
  • 1712Queen Anne administers the Royal touch, a ritual with the intent to cure illness, for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson.source
  • 1725The second performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245 (including 5 movements from his Weimarer Passion), takes place at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.source
  • 1726After King Haffon of the West African Kingdom of Whydah (in modern-day Benin) allows Portuguese traders to build the Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá in the capital at Savi, mercenaries of the Dutch West India Company make a failed attempt to destroy the fort by "throwing two flaming spears over the walls". By 1726, traders from Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are all competing to establish trade with Whydah, which supplies other West Africans to be used as slaves.source
  • 1732MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons of Great Britain after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.source
  • 1732MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.source
  • 1734First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.source
  • 1742Sveinn Sölvason became deputy attorney general for the north and west of the country.source
  • 1757The Rigshospitalet, national hospital of Denmark, is founded at Copenhagen.source
  • 1777March 29–30 – Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands.source
  • 178430 March – 18 June – The Sagbadre War, in present-day Ghana.source
  • 1784Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.source
  • 1787Biblical theology becomes a separate discipline from biblical studies, as Johann Philipp Gabler delivers his speech "On the proper distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology and the specific objectives of each" upon his inauguration as the professor of theology at the University of Altdorf in Germany. Craig Bartholomew, Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 2011) p2source
  • 1796Carl Gauss obtains conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons, and can announce that the regular 17-gon is constructible by ruler and compasses.source
  • 1806The Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples is proclaimed.source
  • 1813Engagement at Lacolle.source
  • 1816March 29–April 10 – The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.source
  • 1816March 30–April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination in the U.S. completely independent of White churches.source
  • 1816Francis Greenway is appointed as the government's Civil Architect.source
  • 1832Bank of Nova Scotia is foundedsource
  • 1842American physician and pharmacist Crawford Long administers an inhaled anesthetic (diethyl ether) to facilitate a surgical procedure, performing the removal of a neck tumor.source
  • 1850Denmark sells the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdomsource
  • 1850All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coastsource
  • 1850The paddle steamer RMS Royal Adelaide, bound from Cork to London, sinks off Margate with the loss of all 250 on board.source
  • 1851A United Kingdom Census is taken. The population has reached 21 million. 6.3 million live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 35% of the total English population. It also shows that a legacy of the Great Irish Famine is that the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years, many having emigrated.source
  • 1851the United Kingdom Census shows that, as part of the legacy of the Great Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years. This is the first census to note use of the Irish language.source
  • 1851The United Kingdom Census 1851 is the first to include detailed ages, date and place of birth, occupations and marital status of those listed. The population of the UK is revealed to have reached 21 million. 6.3 million live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales and such cities account for 35% of the total English population. Uniquely, this census also counts attendance at places of religious worship: it shows that only 35% of the population attend and, of those, nonconformists are in a majority. As part of the legacy of the Great Irish Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000, a drop of 1.6 million in ten years.source
  • 1855Elections are held for the first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourian 'Border Ruffians' cross the border in large numbers to elect a pro-slavery body.source
  • 1855Pierre de Decker succeeds Henri de Brouckère as Prime Minister.source
  • 1855The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.source
  • 1856The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.source
  • 1858Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser in the United States.source
  • 1861Discovery of the chemical elements: British chemist William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.source
  • 1861William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.source
  • 1863Prince Wilhelm George of Denmark is elected at the age of 17 by the Hellenic Parliament as George, King of the Hellenes; he will reign in Greece for 50 years. He arrives in Athens on October 30 to take the throne.source
  • 1867Alaska Purchase: Alaska is purchased for US$7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cents/acre ($4.19/km 2 ), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. Newspapers call this Seward's Folly.source
  • 1870Reconstruction: Texas is readmitted to the Union.source
  • 1870The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving African American men the right to vote, is ratified.source
  • 1879The Ross Guardian ceases publication. It began in 1866.source
  • 1884Reshuffle in the Depretis government. Depretis moves closer to the Historical Right to broaden his parliamentary base. The financial policy of the Historical Left, which was much less rigorous than that of the Right, led to a resurgence of the deficit in the State budget.source
  • 1885The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident, which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.source
  • 1889Preston North End F.C. win the 1889 FA Cup final in England. Having on January 5 won the first Football League title with no defeats all season, they complete the double in Association football.source
  • 1890Legislative electionsource
  • 1891Shoshone National Forest is established in Wyoming, the first U.S. National Forest.source
  • 1895Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany.source
  • 1898The 5.8–6.4 Mw Mare Island earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $350,000 in damage.source
  • 1899The British steamer Stella sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 80 people after wrecking against Les Casquets.source
  • 1908Commonwealth Quarantine service came into operation and took over quarantine stations in every state.source
  • 1912The French Third Republic establishes the French protectorate in Morocco by the Treaty of Fes with Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco.source
  • 1913The Belgian rider Odile Defraye wins the 7th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.source
  • 1916National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2. All Games were played at Montreal's Montreal Arena.source
  • 1918March Days: Bolshevik and Armenian Revolutionary Federation forces suppress a Muslim revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in up to 30,000 deaths.source
  • 1924Commencement of Vaikom Satyagraha (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru in Kerala, South India.source
  • 1929Romania signs the Litvinov Protocol.source
  • 1929Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.source
  • 1937Marui founded as installndnt credit store in Nakano, Tokyo.source
  • 1938The right-wing National Christian Party and Romanian Front are dissolved.source
  • 1938Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini is granted equal power over the Italian military to that of King Victor Emmanuel III, as First Marshal of the Empire.source
  • 1938Prime minister Benito Mussolini is granted the same level of power over the Italian military as that of King Victor Emmanuel III, taking the title First Marshal of the Empire.source
  • 1939The superhero Batman debut for Detective Comics (issue #27) (cover date of May).source
  • 1940WWII: Former Kuomintang member and Chinese foreign minister, Wang Jingwei, announces the creation of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing.source
  • 1941San Pablo becomes a city in the province of Laguna through Commonwealth Act 520 which was approved on May 7, 1940.source
  • 1941A German Lorenz cipher machine operator sends a 4,000-character message twice, allowing British mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the machine's coding mechanism.source
  • 1945American official Alger Hiss is congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing the positions of the Western powers and the Soviet Union closer to each other at the Yalta Conference.source
  • 1949A military coup in Syria ousts President Shukri al-Quwatli.source
  • 1949An anti-NATO riot in Iceland takes place, prompted by the decision of the Icelandic parliament to join the newly formed NATO.source
  • 1951The Securitate is reorganised under the name Direcția Generală a Securității Statului (DGSS).source
  • 1952The football club Millonarios defeats Real Madrid 4–2 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain.source
  • 1954The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.source
  • 1958Nanyang University, a private university using the Chinese language (Singaporean Mandarin) is officially opened. It eventually merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore.source
  • 1961The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.source
  • 1963Indigenous Australians are legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales.source
  • 1965The second ODECA charter, signed by Central American states on December 12, 1962, becomes effective.source
  • 1969The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.source
  • 1971Starbucks coffee shop is founded in the U.S. state of Washington.source
  • 1972Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnamsource
  • 1972March 23–April 2 – A 47-member expedition conducted by Presidential Assistant for National Minorities (Panamin) which has been headed by Manuel Elizalde Jr., mostly scientists and later joined by one of the agency's directors—American Charles Lindbergh, makes a first visit to the caves inhabited by 25 "surviving" Tasadays, a group of Stone Age-style people discovered in June 1971, in an isolated mountain rainforest in South Cotabato—the "first discovery of cavemen in modern times." The expedition ends as explorers are rescued by the United States Armed Forces.source
  • 1973RTS partitions its two channels among language lines, after ten years of television broadcasts in all four languages on the same channel. Channel 5 was used to broadcast in English and Malay and Channel 8, Chinese and Tamil.source
  • 1974Major incendiary bomb attack on Bangor town centre.source
  • 1977Unknown persons set fire to the studios of the radio station La Voz de la Costa in Osorno, belonging to the Catholic Church.source
  • 1981Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.source
  • 1981The Canberra Raiders are accepted as the fourteenth team in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) for 1982 & making them the first team based outside of New South Wales.source
  • 1982Space Shuttle Columbia ends an eight-day mission, STS-3, by landing at White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It is the only time a Space Shuttle has landed at White Sands. The orbiter was forced to land here due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base in California.source
  • 1982At least 38 deaths resulted when Typhoon Nelson tears through the central and southern areas of the country.source
  • 1986The founding of Hitron.source
  • 198630 March–6 April – The 1986 Asia Cup is hosted in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka wins, beating Pakistan in the final.source
  • 1986Land Day demonstrations are held across the occupied Palestinian territories.source
  • 1987The 59th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles, with Platoon winning Best Picture.source
  • 1991French woman and supercentenarian Jeanne Calment surpasses the final age achieved by Easter Wiggins (1874–1990) of 116 years, 36 days and becomes the oldest verified person in history.source
  • 1992Act No. 22 of 1992 - Labour Code (consolidation) is adopted.source
  • 1998Hungary begins European Union accession talks.source
  • 2000The government announces salary cuts of 12 to 15% for state employees, following pressures of the IMF.source
  • 2004The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) abducts over 1,000 people from the Bajura District to fight in the Nepalese Civil War.source
  • 2015The People's Republic of China evacuates its citizens from Yemen due to concerns over declining security and also suspends anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden.source
  • 2017SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital-class rocket.source
  • 2018The mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia ends.source
  • 20202020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.source
  • 2021Papua New Guinea begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine supplied from Australia. Prime Minister James Marape is the first person to receive a dose of the vaccine.source

Births

  • 397March 30 or March 31 – Kʼukʼ Bahlam I, king of Palenque (Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico)source
  • 892Shi Jingtang, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty (died 942)source
  • 1326Ivan II of Moscow, Russian Grand Prince (died 1359)source
  • 1432Mehmed II, the Conqueror, Ottoman Sultan (died 1481)source
  • 1510Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (died 1566)source
  • 1551Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (died 1622)source
  • 1568Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (died 1639)source
  • 1632John Proctor, Massachusetts farmer, tavern keeper (died 1692)source
  • 1746Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (died 1828)source
  • 1853Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (died 1890)source
  • 1892Sanzo Nosaka, one of the founders of the Japanese Communist Party (died 1993)source
  • 1913Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (died 2002)source
  • 1945Eric Clapton, English rock guitarist and singer-songwritersource
  • 1962MC Hammer, American rapper and actorsource
  • 1968Celine Dion, Canadian singersource
  • 1979Malaka Dewapriya, film maker.source

Deaths

  • 116Quirinus of Neuss, Roman Christian martyr according to Roman Catholic traditionsource
  • 365Ai of Jin (or Qianling), Chinese emperor (born 341)source
  • 943Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (born 889)source
  • 987Arnulf II (the Younger), Frankish noblemansource
  • 995Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian statesmansource
  • 1022Atenulf, Italian nobleman and Benedictine abbotsource
  • 1202Joachim of Fiore, Italian theologian (born 1135)source
  • 1225Gertrude of Dagsburg, French noblewomansource
  • 1281Conrad of Mure, Swiss monk, scholar and writer (born 1210)source
  • 1282War of the Sicilian Vespers: A group of Sicilian conspirators begins an uprising against the rule of King Charles I of Sicily; over the next six weeks, thousands of French are killed. The rebellion forces Charles to abandon the planned crusade against the Byzantines, while still en route to the target city of Constantinople, and allows King Peter III of Aragon ("the Great") to take over rule of the island from Charles (which in turn leads to Peter's excommunication by Pope Martin IV).source
  • 1465Isabella of Clermont, queen consort of Naples (born c. 1424)source
  • 1472Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (born 1435)source
  • 1486Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England (born c. 1404)source
  • 1587Ralph Sadler, English statesman (born 1507)source
  • 1664Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (born 1656)source
  • 1685Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641–1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642–1680) (born 1623)source
  • 1689Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (born 1634)source
  • 1700Peter Artemiev, converted to catholicismsource
  • 1707Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications (born 1633)source
  • 1712Johann Friedrich Mayer, German Lutheran theologian (born 1650)source
  • 1723Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (born 1638)source
  • 1725René de Froulay de Tessé, French Marshal and diplomat (born 1648)source
  • 1764Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (born 1695)source
  • 1776Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (b.1710)source
  • 1783William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (born 1718)source
  • 1793François-Marie Picoté de Belestre, colonial soldier.source
  • 1806Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English noblewoman, socialite, political organizer, style icon, author and activist (born 1757)source
  • 1835Richard Sharp, English hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalistsource
  • 1842Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (born 1755)source
  • 1853Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (born 1798)source
  • 1911Ellen Swallow Richards, American chemist (born 1842)source
  • 1925Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (born 1861)source
  • 1950Léon Blum, French statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of France (born 1872)source
  • 1986James Cagney, 86, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Love Me or Leave Me), heart attack.source