What happened on 30 May?

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

1. 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England Wat Tyler leads peasant uprising against the poll tax.
2. 1431 Trial and execution of Joan of Arc Captured by Burgundians, sold to the English, condemned by an ecclesiastical court at Rouen, burned at the stake aged 19.
3. 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez's epic of the Buendía family; a pillar of magical realism.
4. 1854 Bleeding Kansas Violent confrontations between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
5. 1498 Third voyage of Columbus Steering further south, Columbus sights Trinidad and then the mouths of the Orinoco — fresh water on such a scale that he concludes, correctly for once, that this must be a contine
6. 1381 The revolt kindles at Brentwood When a tax commissioner tries to re-assess the Essex village of Fobbing, its people — organised, forewarned, and led by men who have fought in France — throw him out, and kill the
7. 2020 SpaceX Demo-2: commercial crew flies A private company carries astronauts to orbit for the first time, ending nine years of American reliance on Soyuz — spaceflight becomes a service you can buy.
8. 1962 Britten's War Requiem Setting of the Latin mass interleaved with Wilfred Owen's war poetry.
9. 1635 The Peace of Prague fails to end the war Emperor and Saxony agree terms that most of Protestant Germany accepts — but Sweden fights on, and France now enters openly against the Habsburgs. What began as a war of religion b
10. 1606 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Arrested on Emperor Jahangir's orders, the fifth Sikh Guru is tortured and dies in Lahore — the first Sikh martyr, after whom the community begins to arm.
11. 2024 Trump convicted in the hush-money trial A Manhattan jury finds Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide a payment to Stormy Daniels — the first US president, sitting or former, convicte
12. 1995 Mystic Stylez (Three 6 Mafia album) Lo-fi, horror-film Memphis rap that seeded crunk and trap.
13. 1536 Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's execution Henry marries her lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour, who will give him his longed-for son.
14. 1896 Khodynka Tragedy At a coronation feast on Moscow's Khodynka Field, a stampede for free gifts crushes some 1,400 people; Nicholas attends a French embassy ball that evening.
15. 1791 Robespierre's speech against the death penalty In the Constituent Assembly the young lawyer from Arras argues for abolishing capital punishment as 'the most unjust' of punishments — two years before the Terror.
16. 1593 Death of Christopher Marlowe The 29-year-old playwright, under investigation for heresy, is stabbed above the eye by Ingram Frizer in a Deptford house after a dispute over the bill.
17. 1984 Prince Charles's 'monstrous carbuncle' speech Addressing the Royal Institute of British Architects, Charles damns a proposed National Gallery extension as 'a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend'