| 61831 | May.30 | Event | 1431 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc. |
| 61832 | May.30 | Event | 1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great. |
| 61833 | May.30 | Event | 1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion. |
| 61834 | May.30 | Event | 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. |
| 61835 | May.30 | Event | 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. |
| 61836 | May.30 | Event | 1574 – Henry III becomes King of France. |
| 61837 | May.30 | Event | 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. |
| 61838 | May.30 | Event | 1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper. |
| 61839 | May.30 | Event | 1635 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed. |
| 61840 | May.30 | Event | 1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament. |
| 61841 | May.30 | Event | 1806 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. |
| 61842 | May.30 | Event | 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba. |
| 61843 | May.30 | Event | 1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. |
| 61844 | May.30 | Event | 1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. |
| 61845 | May.30 | Event | 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. |
| 61846 | May.30 | Event | 1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer". |
| 61847 | May.30 | Event | 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert. |
| 61848 | May.30 | Event | 1845 – The Fatel Razack lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indians to the country. |
| 61849 | May.30 | Event | 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Kansas and Nebraska. |
| 61850 | May.30 | Event | 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5). |
| 61851 | May.30 | Event | 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V. |
| 61852 | May.30 | Event | 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people. |
| 61853 | May.30 | Event | 1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. |
| 61854 | May.30 | Event | 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race. |
| 61855 | May.30 | Event | 1913 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London, is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. |
| 61856 | May.30 | Event | 1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. |
| 61857 | May.30 | Event | 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece. |
| 61858 | May.30 | Event | 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. |
| 61859 | May.30 | Event | 1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers. |
| 61860 | May.30 | Event | 1932 – The National Theatre of Greece is founded. |