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In 1800, Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.
August 30 in History
1800 — Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen
August 30 spans 56 recorded events across recorded history, from 70 to 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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56 events
70 – 2023
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More major events on August 30
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission. Source
- 1721 The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. Source
- 1959 South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate. Source
Did you know
Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
Did you know
Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith who planned the event, and twenty-five of his followers were hanged. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.
Did you know
In 1800, Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.
Did you know
In 1800, Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.
70
1057
Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne.
1060
The Mirdasids defeat the Fatimid Caliphate at the Battle of al-Funaydiq, signalling the definitive loss of Aleppo for the Fatimids.
Emirate of Aleppo dynasty from 1014 to 1080
1282
Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
King of Aragon and Valencia (1276–85); King of Sicily (1282–85)
1363
The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1363 naval battle of the Red Turban Rebellion
1464
Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
1535
With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published.
Type of decree by the Catholic pope
1574
Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
Fourth Sikh guru from 1574 to 1581
1590
1594
King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603
1721
The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
Swedish-Russian conflict (1700–1721)
1727
Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
Princess of Orange from 1734 to 1751
1757
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
Part of the Seven Years' War
1791
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
Shipwreck in Queensland, Australia
1799
The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
Dutch surrender during the War of the Second Coalition
1813
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition
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.
1813–1814 US Indian War
1835
1836
The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
Largest city in Texas, United States
1862
American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
1873
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
Austro-Hungarian army officer and explorer
1896
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.
1896–1898 Philippine war of independence against the Spanish Empire
1909
Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Fossil-bearing rock formation in the Canadian Rockies
1914
World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
1916
Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
1917
Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
Country in Southeast Asia
1918
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
Attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (1890–1918)
1922
Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).
1922 battle during the Greco-Turkish War
1936
The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
Retired British ocean liner
1940
The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1940 territorial settlement between the kingdoms of Romania and Hungary
1941
The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
1941 treaty between Nazi Germany and Romania on the region of Transnistria
1945
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
Military occupation during World War II
1945
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
Supreme commanding authority of a military
1945
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945–1991 military governing body
1959
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
South Vietnamese doctor and politician (1918–2004)
1962
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
Turboprop airliner produced by NAMC (Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation)
1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.
and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
1974
A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Capital and largest city of Serbia
1974
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
1974
The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania.
At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
1981
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing.
The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1983
Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
1983 aviation accident
1983
STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program.
Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1984 American crewed spaceflight
1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1988–1991 breakup of the sovereign state
1992
The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1992 siege and shootout in Idaho, US
1995
Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1992–1995 armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1998
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1998–2003 war in central Africa
2002
Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
2002 aviation accident
2008
A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
Flag carrier of Venezuela
2014
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
Prime Minister of Lesotho, 2012–15, 2017–20
2021
The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S.
involvement in the war.
2023
Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
Military coup against President Ali Bongo