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The following events took place on August 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 42 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 338 BC

  A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
• 216 BC

  Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae: The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
• 461

  Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
• 1274

  Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
• 1343

  Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against King Philip VI of France and the nobility.
• 1377

  Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
• 1610

  Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
• 1776

  The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• 1790

  The first United States Census is conducted.
• 1798

  French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
• 1830

  Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
• 1869

  Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
• 1870

  Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• 1873

  The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
• 1897

  Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India’s North West Frontier Province.
• 1903

  Fall of the Ottoman Empire: An unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
• 1916

  World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 1918

  Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 1918

  The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
• 1922

  A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
• 1923

  Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
• 1932

  The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 1934

  Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
• 1937

  The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• 1939

  Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1943

  Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
• 1943

  World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
• 1944

  ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 1944

  World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
• 1945

  World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

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