30 BC

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	30 BC XXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	724
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 294
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 22
Ancient Greek era	187th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4721
Bengali calendar	−622
Berber calendar	921
Buddhist calendar	515
Burmese calendar	−667
Byzantine calendar	5479–5480
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 2667 or 2607     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2668 or 2608
Coptic calendar	−313 – −312
Discordian calendar	1137
Ethiopian calendar	−37 – −36
Hebrew calendar	3731–3732
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	27–28
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3072–3073
Holocene calendar	9971
Iranian calendar	651 BP – 650 BP
Islamic calendar	671 BH – 670 BH
Julian calendar	30 BC XXIX BC
Korean calendar	2304
Minguo calendar	1941 before ROC 民前1941年
Seleucid era	282/283 AG
Thai solar calendar	513–514

Year 30 BC was either a common year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 724 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 30 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian becomes Roman Consul for the fourth time. His partner is Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger.
• 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 blockades 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 claims 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.

Asia

• Possible date of composition of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, attributed to Thiruvalluvar.
• First possible date for the invention of the wheelbarrow in history; as the 5th century Book of Later Han states 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 this year.

Births

• Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni (d. AD 37)

Deaths

• August 1 – Mark Antony, Roman consul and general (suicide) (b. 83 BC)
• August 12 – Cleopatra VII, last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt (suicide) (b. 69 BC)
• August 23
  • Ptolemy Caesar, son of Julius Caesar and pharaoh of Egypt (b. 47 BC)
  • Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (b. 47 BC)
• Hyrcanus II, king and high priest of Judea until 40 BC