1330
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1300s 1310s 1320s – 1330s – 1340s 1350s 1360s |
| Years: | 1327 1328 1329 – 1330 – 1331 1332 1333 |
| 1330 by topic | |
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| 1330 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1330 MCCCXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2083 |
| Armenian calendar | 779 ԹՎ ՉՀԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6080 |
| Bengali calendar | 737 |
| Berber calendar | 2280 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Edw. 3 – 4 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1874 |
| Burmese calendar | 692 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6838–6839 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4026 or 3966 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4027 or 3967 |
| Coptic calendar | 1046–1047 |
| Discordian calendar | 2496 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1322–1323 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5090–5091 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1386–1387 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1252–1253 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4431–4432 |
| Holocene calendar | 11330 |
| Igbo calendar | 330–331 |
| Iranian calendar | 708–709 |
| Islamic calendar | 730–731 |
| Japanese calendar | Gentoku 2 (元徳２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1330 MCCCXXX |
| Korean calendar | 3663 |
| Minguo calendar | 582 before ROC 民前582年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1872–1873 |
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Year 1330 (MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominately Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
- October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer and having him executed.
- November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered.
- Undated – Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.
Births
- June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)
- July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
- October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
- date unknown
- Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)
- Altichiero, Indian painter (d. 1390)
- John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)
- Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399)
- Nicolas Flamel, alchemist (d. 1417)
Deaths
- January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
- March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
- May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
- c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
- August 25 – Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. 1286)
- November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
- date unknown
- Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
- Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
- Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
- Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
- Angus Og of Islay, Scottish soldier
The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.