WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. AUGUST
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King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric. (30. August 526)

Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou. (30. August 1282)

Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. (30. August 1363)

Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope. (30. August 1464)

Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master. (30. August 1574)

Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) (30. August 1590)

HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day. (30. August 1791)

The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars. (30. August 1799)

Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. (30. August 1800)

First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance. (30. August 1813)

Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama. (30. August 1813)

Melbourne is founded. (30. August 1835)

The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen (30. August 1836)

American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright. (30. August 1862)

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea. (30. August 1873)

Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas. (30. August 1896)

The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar. (30. August 1897)

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. (30. August 1909)

World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg (30. August 1914)

Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority. (30. August 1917)