What is 30 BC?
{{Year nav|-30}} {{Year in other calendars|year=-29|BC}} The year '''30 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Wednesday]], [[Common year starting on Thursday|Thursday]] or [[Common year starting on Friday|Friday]] or a [[leap year starting on Thursday]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Crassus'''. == Events == === Roman Republic === * [[Caesar Augustus|Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian]] becomes [[List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls|Roman Consul]] for the fourth time. His partner is [[Marcus Licinius Crassus (consul 30 BC)|Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger]]. * Octavian leads his army to the [[Dardanelles]]. He marches into [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]]. [[Herod the Great]] sends him [[vow]]s of loyalty and troops to help. * [[Cornelius Gallus|Gaius Cornelius Gallus]] arrives in [[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]] and occupies [[Paraetonium]]. * [[Mark Antony]] retreats with his army to [[Ptolemaic Egypt|Egypt]]. He learns that [[Pelusium]] opened its gates to Octavian without resistance. * Octavian Caesar captures [[Alexandria]]. This marks the official [[annexation]] of [[Ancient Egypt]] to the [[Roman Republic]]. * [[Cleopatra]] [[wikt:evacuate|evacuates]] to [[Berenice Troglodytica|Berenice]] on the west coast of the [[Red Sea]]. King Malchus of [[Nabatea]] attacks from the [[desert]] and burns the Egyptian ships. * The children of Cleopatra are spared by Octavian. [[Octavia Minor]] raises [[Alexander Helios]], [[Cleopatra Selene II|Cleopatra Selene]] and [[Ptolemy Philadelphus (Cleopatra)|Ptolemy Philadelphus]] in her house in [[Rome]]. === Asia === * Common date given for [[Thiruvalluvar]] to write the ''[[Tirukkuṟaḷ]]'' * First possible date for the invention of the [[wheelbarrow]] == Births == {{births2}} * [[Maroboduus]], king of the [[Marcomanni]] (d. [[37|AD 37]]) == Deaths == {{deaths2}} * [[Mark Antony]], Roman [[Roman consul|consul]] and general (b. [[83 BC]]) * [[Marcus Antonius Antyllus]], son of [[Mark Antony]] and [[Fulvia]] (b. [[47 BC]]) * [[Hyrca