30 BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	60s BC 50s BC 40s BC – 30s BC – 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC
Years:	33 BC 32 BC 31 BC – 30 BC – 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC

30 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Year 30 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian becomes Roman Consul for the fourth time. His partner is Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives.
Spring—Octavian led his army to the Dardanelles; he shipped them across to Asia Minor and marched into Syria, where Herod the Great send him vows of loyalty and thousands of his own troops in support.
Summer—Gaius Cornelius Gallus lands in Cyrene and occupied Paraetonium, Mark Antony stormed the city walls and blokkades the harbour.
Antony retreats his army (7 legions) to Egypt and receive the news that Pelusium, has opened its gates to Octavian without resistance.
August 1—Octavian Caesar captures Alexandria. This marks the official annexation of Ancient Egypt to the Roman Republic.
Cleopatra evacuates her court and treasury to Berenice on the west coast of the Red Sea, but king Malchus of Nabatea attacks from the desert and burned the Egyptian ships.
The children of Cleopatra are spared by Octavian and taken back in triumph; Octavia Minor raised Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene and Ptolemy Philadelphus in her household in Rome.
With the suicide of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the execution of Ptolemy XV Caesarion the Ptolemaic dynasty, the last dynasty of Ancient Egypt comes to an end. The first year of Octavian's reign in Egypt.
Octavian claimed Cleopatra's treasure in the mausoleum at the Temple of Isis; he pays the salaries of his veteran legionaries and gives them land in Italy.

First possible date for the invention of the wheelbarrow in history; as the 5th century Book of Later Han stated, that the wife of the once poor and youthful imperial censor Bao Xuan of the Chinese Han Dynasty helped him push a lu che back to his village during their feeble wedding ceremony, around 30 BC.

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