1030

Events

• July 29 - Battle of Stiklestad in Norway. Olav Haraldsson loses to his pagan vassals and is wounded.
• July 30 - Olav Haraldsson dies of his wounds at the Battle of Stiklestad. He is later sainted.
• The city of Kaunas in Lithuania is founded.
• The city of Tartu in Estonia is founded.
• Earliest mention of Thalwil, Switzerland

Births

• July 26 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
• Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (d. 1070)
• Vsevolod I of Kiev (d. 1093)

Deaths

• September 30 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• Olav Haraldsson (b. 995)