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 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**30 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	30 BC
Ab urbe condita	724
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1873 – -1872
Bengali calendar	-622
Berber calendar	921
Buddhist calendar	515
Burmese calendar	-667
Byzantine calendar	5479 – 5480
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (2607/2667) — to — 辛卯年 (2608/2668)
Coptic calendar	-313 – -312
Ethiopian calendar	-37 – -36
Hebrew calendar	3731 – 3732
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	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
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2304
Thai solar calendar	514

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

Rome

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.

China

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.

Births

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

Deaths

August 1—Mark Antony, Roman consul and general (suicide) (b. 83 BC)
August 1—Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (b. 47 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)
Hyrcanus II, king and high priest of Judea until 40 BC