- August 30, 1363 “Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhangare pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.”
- August 30, 1574 Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
- August 30, 1590 “Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)”
- August 30, 1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
- August 30, 1682 “William Penn sails from England to America, where he would establish the Pennsylvania Colony.”
- August 30, 1791 The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
- August 30, 1799 Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
- August 30, 1800 “Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia”
- August 30, 1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- August 30, 1813 Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
- August 30, 1820 “James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore – “”Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?”””
- August 30, 1835 “Melbourne, Australia is founded.”
- August 30, 1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- August 30, 1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
- August 30, 1850 “Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city”
- August 30, 1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
- August 30, 1862 “Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY”
- August 30, 1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
- August 30, 1862 “Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.”
- August 30, 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- August 30, 1885 “13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda”
- August 30, 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
- August 30, 1896 “Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.”
- August 30, 1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- August 30, 1905 Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.
- August 30, 1905 Ty Cobb’s first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
- August 30, 1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- August 30, 1913 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)
- August 30, 1914 “Battle of Tannenberg, one of history’s great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.”
- August 30, 1914 Battle of Tannenberg.
- August 30, 1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
- August 30, 1918 “Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.”
- August 30, 1922 “Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) (“”Turkish War of Independence””).”
- August 30, 1922 “Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.”
- August 30, 1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
- August 30, 1941 Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.
- August 30, 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
- August 30, 1942 Battle of Alam Halfa ? 9th Australian Division again in action at El Alamein
- August 30, 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
- August 30, 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.