What happened on 30 May?

9 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. 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
6. 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
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 — and it would have ended the war, had France not chosen that moment to enter openly against the Habsburgs. W