On July 30, history records 42 notable events, 166 famous births and 87 deaths, spanning the years 762 to 1729.
Events on this day include: Baghdad is founded. (762); First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. (1419).
Notable people born on July 30 include Hongzhi Emperor (1470), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549).
Notable figures who died on this day include Jacob Baradaeus (578), Pope Benedict I (579), Tatwine (734).
Events on 30 July 42
See all →First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
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.
Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
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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Birthdays on 30 July 166
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Deaths on 30 July 87
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