2nd August 338 BC A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea
2nd August 216 BC The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
2nd August 49 BC Caesar defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.[1]
2nd August 47 BC At Zela, Caesar defeats Pharnaces, son of Mithridates the Great Caesar's comment on the victory where "Veni, vidi, vici". (I came, I saw, I conquered]
2nd August 932 After a two-years siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III
2nd August 1274 Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
2nd August 1377 Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
2nd August 1798 The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
2nd August 1897 The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
2nd August 1914 The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
2nd August 1916 Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
2nd August 1943 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.
2nd August 1944 The largest convoy of the war arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
2nd August 1989 A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
2nd August 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait.
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