Year by year · 20th century

1930

1930 in world history: 21 events, 15 births, 17 deaths, 2 works, 3 states founded and 5 that came to an end. 721 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 18 February

    Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

    Comparing photographic plates at Lowell Observatory, Tombaugh found a faint moving object. Named Pluto at the suggestion of 11-year-old Venetia Burney, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.

    Venetia

  2. 2 March

    D. H. Lawrence dies in the south of France

    The author of 'Sons and Lovers' and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' died of tuberculosis at Vence, aged 44. 'Lady Chatterley' was not published openly in Britain until the 1960 obscenity trial.

  3. 6 March

    Clarence Birdseye's frozen foods go on sale

    Shops in Springfield, Massachusetts, began selling quick-frozen vegetables, fruit, fish and meat using Birdseye's process. Frozen food went on to transform shopping and diets.

  4. 6 April

    Gandhi breaks the salt law at Dandi

    At the end of his 24-day march to the sea, Mohandas Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt at Dandi, defying the British monopoly. The gesture launched a mass campaign of civil disobedience across India.

  5. 2 November

    Haile Selassie is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia

    Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I in Addis Ababa before foreign dignitaries. He ruled Ethiopia, with an interruption during Italian occupation, until his overthrow in 1974.

    Ethiopian EmpireHaile SelassieAddis AbabaEthiopia

  6. Event

    Salt March

    The Salt March was a campaign of civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India in 1930.

  7. Revolt

    Yên Bái mutiny

    The Yên Bái mutiny was an uprising on the night of 9–10 February 1930 in which Vietnamese colonial soldiers at the garrison of Yên Bái in northern Vietnam, organised by the Vietnamese Nationalist Party, attacked their French officers.

  8. Revolt

    Wushe Incident

    The Wushe Incident (Musha Incident) was an uprising of Seediq people against Japanese colonial rule at Wushe (Musha) in central Taiwan in October 1930.

  9. Event

    Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930)

    The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 was an alliance signed between Britain and the Kingdom of Iraq, then under a League of Nations mandate.

  10. Revolt

    Tilari massacre

    The Tilari massacre took place on 30 May 1930 at Tilari, in the Rawain area of Tehri Garhwal State in the Himalaya, when the state's troops fired on villagers gathered to protest new forest rules that restricted their customary rights.

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In the profiles

  • Argentine RepublicGeneral José Félix Uriburu overthrows Hipólito Yrigoyen in the first military coup
  • British RajGandhi leads the Salt March to Dandi
  • French IndochinaThe Indochinese Communist Party is founded and the Yen Bai mutiny is crushed
  • LiberiaA forced labour scandal forces President Charles King to resign
  • SwahiliA committee of the British East African territories standardises Swahili on the dialect of Zanzibar

Wars and longer events

Born in 1930 15

Died in 1930 17

Works 2

States founded 3

States that came to an end 5

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