30 October in history
6 events that happened on 30 October, from 637 to 1961.
✦ Anniversary of the day
1270 CE 756 years ago
The Treaty of Tunis ends the Eighth Crusade
After Louis IX died of disease outside Tunis, his brother Charles of Anjou negotiated a treaty with the sultan of Tunis and the crusaders withdrew. Louis was canonised in 1297.
1485 CE 541 years ago
Henry VII is crowned, beginning the Tudor dynasty
Henry Tudor was crowned at Westminster Abbey two months after defeating Richard III at Bosworth. His marriage to Elizabeth of York united the rival houses of the Wars of the Roses.
1918 CE 108 years ago
The Armistice of Mudros takes the Ottomans out of the war
Ottoman and British representatives signed an armistice aboard HMS Agamemnon off Lemnos. Allied occupation and partition plans followed, provoking the Turkish national movement led by Mustafa Kemal.
1938 CE 88 years ago
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
CBS aired Orson Welles's radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel as a series of mock news bulletins about a Martian landing in New Jersey. Some listeners were alarmed, though newspapers exaggerated the 'panic'.
