July 02 866 Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
July 02 936
King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is
succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia.
July 02 1298 The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
July 02 1582 Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
July 02 1644 English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
July 02 1645 Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
July 02 1816
The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on
board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by
Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
July 02 1853
The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian
Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off
the Crimean War.
July 02 1940 The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
July 02 1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
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