What happened on 30 March?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1862 Les Misérables Victor Hugo's sweeping novel of Jean Valjean and post-revolutionary France.
2. 1699 Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa The 10th Sikh guru initiates the Khalsa community at Anandpur on Vaisakhi.
3. 1746 Born: Francisco Goya Spanish painter and printmaker who chronicled the horrors of war.
4. 33 Jesus cleanses the Temple Mark 11: the money-changers' tables overturned — "my house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves".
5. 1851 The census counts Ireland's missing millions The 1851 census finds 6.6 million people where 8.2 million stood ten years before — a country short a fifth of itself, a million dead and more gone overseas. The population keeps f
6. 1979 Islamic Republic referendum Iranians vote to become an Islamic Republic, founding the new theocratic state.
7. 1844 Born: Paul Verlaine Symbolist poet; lover and shooter of Rimbaud.
8. 1856 Treaty of Paris (1856) Ends the Crimean War; Russia accepts the neutralisation of the Black Sea.
9. 1184 BCE The funeral games for Patroclus Iliad 23: chariot race, boxing, wrestling, the foot-race and the spear — Achilles presides, giving prizes with a courtesy war had driven out of him.
10. 1282 Sicilian Vespers A massacre of the French at Easter vespers throws Sicily into revolt and reshapes Mediterranean power politics.
11. 1855 Mary Seacole opens the British Hotel Refused by the War Office, the Jamaican-born nurse and hotelier pays her own way to Crimea and builds a canteen and sick-house from salvage two miles behind the siege lines, tendin
12. 1981 Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan Sixty-nine days into his presidency, Reagan is shot by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Washington Hilton; joking with his surgeons, he survives a bullet lodged near his heart.
13. 1972 Easter Offensive A massive conventional invasion by North Vietnam, blunted with US air power after early South Vietnamese setbacks.
14. 1992 Satyajit Ray's honorary Oscar Too ill to travel, Ray accepts a lifetime achievement Oscar from his Calcutta hospital bed by video link, weeks before his death.