site.btaObservances: January 30

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1848: The maiden issue of Tsarigradski Vestnik, edited by Ivan Bogorov, Alexander Exarch and Todor Burmov, comes out in Constantinople (folds on December 15, 1862).

1879: Bulgaria's first civilian hospital opens in Sofia.

2002: Intellectuals, power engineering workers and unionists set up a Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant Defence Committee in Pleven (North Central Bulgaria).

2007: Helios-Metalurg, Bulgaria's first steel mill set up entirely on private capital, opens in Plovdiv (South Central Bulgaria).

2007: An ordinance comes into force for the creation of a single general information portal about the management of EU structural and cohesion funds in Bulgaria.

2010: Prime Minister Boyko Borissov starts an official two-day visit to Istanbul, during which he meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas and Governor Muammer Guler. The sides sign a memorandum of cooperation in the field of energy and an agreement between Bulgaria's state-owned natural gas supplier Bulgargaz and Turkiye's state-owned oil and gas company BOTAS. Agreement is reached for the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church in Istanbul to be proposed for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

2017: The Yes, Bulgaria Movement, led by Hristo Ivanov, is registered at the Sofia City Court.

2020: The National Assembly resolves that Bulgaria will join the euro area with an exchange rate of 1.95583 leva for one euro.