What is August 30?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[526]] &ndash; Ostrogoth King [[Theodoric the Great]] dies of [[dysentery]] in [[Ravenna]]. * [[711]] &ndash; [[K'inich K'an Joy Chitam]], king of [[Palenque]], disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state. * [[1464]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul II]] is elected. * [[1574]] &ndash; [[Guru Ram Das]] becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master. * [[1791]] &ndash; The [[ship]] HMS ''Pandora'' sinks after running aground on a reef. * [[1800]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Prosser]] postpones a planned [[slave]] [[rebellion]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]], but is arrested he can make it happen. * [[1813]] &ndash; In an uprising, [[Creek]] [[Native American]]s launch an attack on Fort Mims, [[Alabama]] (present–day [[Mobile, Alabama]]), and commit the Fort Mims massacre. * [[1813]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kulm]]: [[France|French]] forces are defeated by [[Austria]]n–[[Prussia]]n–[[Russia]]n alliance. * [[1832]] &ndash; Agreement is reached on the border between [[Greece]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]]. * [[1835]] &ndash; The [[city]] of [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]] is founded. * [[1836]] &ndash; The city of [[Houston, Texas]] is founded. * [[1850]] &ndash; [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]] becomes a city. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Richmond, Kentucky]] – [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] under [[Edmund Kirby Smith]] rout a Union army under General [[Horatio Wright]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Union forces are defeated in [[Second Battle of Bull Run]]. * [[1873]] &ndash; [[Austria]]n explorers [[Julius von Payer]] and [[Karl Weyprecht]] discover the [[archipelago]] (island group) of [[Franz Josef Land]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]]. The islands now belong to [[Russia]]. * [[1881]] &ndash; British passenger steamer RMS ''Teuton'' hits a reef off [[South Africa]] and sinks, killing 236 of the 272 people on board. * [[1896]] &ndash; [[Philippines|Philippine]] [[Revolution]]: After [[Spain|Spanish]] victory in the [[Battle of