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On December 30, 534: The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.

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Featured moment · 534

The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.

Year 534 (DXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinianus and Paulinus. The denomination 534 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.

People

Born on December 30

Igor Shesterkin 1995– Russian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Joshua 1995– American singer (born 1995)
Ollie Watkins 1995– English footballer (born 1995)
V 1995– South Korean singer (born 1995)
Ryan Tunnicliffe 1992– English association football player
Carson Wentz 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Camila Giorgi 1991– Italian former tennis player (born 1991)
Bruno Henrique 1990– Brazilian footballer
Joe Root 1990– English cricketer (born 1990)
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C. J. Wilcox 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
Tyler Anderson 1989– American baseball player (born 1989)
Ryan Sheckler 1989– American professional skateboarder (born 1989)
Kateřina Vaňková 1989– Czech tennis player
Jakub Nakládal 1987– Czech ice hockey player (born 1987)
Domenico Criscito 1986– Italian footballer (born 1986)
Ellie Goulding 1986– English singer and songwriter (born 1986)
Caity Lotz 1986– American actress
Jeff Ward 1986– American actor (born 1986)

People

Died on December 30

Khaleda Zia Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)
Bryan Ansell British role-playing/wargame designer (1955–2023)
Tom Wilkinson English actor (1948–2023)
Aki Yashiro Musical artist
Barbara Walters American journalist (1929–2022)
Dawn Wells American actress (1938–2020)
Erica Garner American activist (1990–2017)
Doug Atkins American football player (1930–2015)
Howard Davis American boxer (1956–2015)
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Mangesh Padgaonkar Indian poet
Howard Pawley Premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988
Terry Becker American actor, director, and producer (1921–2014)
Jim Galloway Scottish jazz clarinetist and saxophonist (1936–2014)
Luise Rainer German-born actress (1910–2014)
Kinnaird R. McKee United States admiral
José María Maguregui Spanish footballer and coach
Eiichi Ohtaki Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (1948–2013)
Johnny Orr American basketball player and coach (1927–2013)

Timeline

Every December 30 on record

  1. 534 The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.

    Calendar year

    Year 534 (DXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinianus and Paulinus. The denomination 534 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.

  2. 999 Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland.

    Calendar year

    Year 999 (CMXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

  3. 1066 Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.

    Mass killing of Jews by Muslim mobs in modern-day Spain

    The 1066 Granada massacre took place on 30 December 1066 when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, in the Taifa of Granada, killed and crucified the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred members of the city’s Jewish community.

  4. 1419 Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle.

    Third phase of the Hundred Years' War

    The Lancastrian War was the third and final phase of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. It lasted from 1415, when Henry V of England invaded Normandy, to 1453, when the English were definitively defeated in Aquitaine. It followed a long period of peace from the end of the Caroline War in 1389.

  5. 1460 Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield.

    Series of civil wars in England (1455–1487)

    The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, and also the Cousins' War, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought for control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The conflict was fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York, two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet. The conflict resulted in the end of Lancaster's male line in 1471, leaving the Tudor family to inherit, through the female line, the Lancaster claim to the throne.

  6. 1641 Reapers' War: Louis XIII of France swears the Catalan constitutions, being appointed Count of Barcelona and thus establishing the personal union of the Principality of Catalonia with the Kingdom of France.
  7. 1702 Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
  8. 1813 War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
  9. 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
  10. 1825 The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
  11. 1853 Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
  12. 1890 Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
  13. 1896 Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
  14. 1896 Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
  15. 1897 The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
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  1. 1902 The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attains a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.
  2. 1903 A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
  3. 1905 Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
  4. 1906 The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
  5. 1916 Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
  6. 1916 The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
  7. 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
  8. 1927 The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
  9. 1935 The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
  10. 1936 The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.
  11. 1943 Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
  12. 1944 King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
  13. 1947 Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
  14. 1952 An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
  15. 1954 The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.

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