May 30
70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions
breached the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish wars financed the construction
of the Flavian Amphitheater, which took
ten years to build.
1381 English Boer uprising began in Essex.
1431 French
heroine Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen by the English.
1536 King
Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two
wives.
1593 Leading Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to
death in a pub brawl in Deptford.
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