WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. OCTOBER
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Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. (30. October 758)

Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily. (30. October 1137)

Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần clan of Vietnam, forces Lý Huệ Tông, the last emperor of the Lý Dynasty, to commit suicide. (30. October 1226)

The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis. (30. October 1270)

Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. (30. October 1340)

King Henry VII of England is crowned. (30. October 1485)

Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests. (30. October 1501)

Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War. (30. October 1657)

Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle. (30. October 1806)

In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. (30. October 1831)

Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. (30. October 1863)

Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. (30. October 1864)

Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch". (30. October 1864)

Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd. (30. October 1888)

Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. (30. October 1894)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. (30. October 1905)

The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. (30. October 1918)

The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. (30. October 1920)

Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy. (30. October 1922)

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter. (30. October 1925)

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