Events on 30 July 42
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First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Year 1502
Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
Year 1609
Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
Year 1619
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
Year 1635
Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
Year 1656
Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
Year 1676
Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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Deaths on 30 July 87
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