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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

30 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	30 BC
Ab urbe condita	724
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1873 – -1872
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
- Vikram Samvat	26 – 27
- 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
v • d • e

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

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Rome

• Octavian becomes Roman Consul for the fourth time. His partner is Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives.
• August 1—Octavian captures Alexandria. This marks the official annexation of Ancient Egypt to the Roman Republic.
• August—With the supposed 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 year counts as the first year of Octavian's personal reign in Egypt.
• 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.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (suicide) (b. 83 BC)
• August 12—Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (suicide, or executed) (b. 69 BC)
• August—Pharaoh Ptolemy XV Caesarion of Egypt (executed) (b. 47 BC)
• Alexander Helios, Claimant King of Armenia, Media and Parthia (probably executed) (b. 40 BC)
• Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (b. 47 BC)
• Hyrcanus II, king and high priest of Judea until 40 BC