Day In History
This Day in History
Today: August 2, 2026
-338
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.[1]
-216
The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
-49
Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.[2]
461
Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
932
After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March.[3]
1274
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
1343
After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
1377
Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
1415
Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.
1492
The Jews are expelled from Spain: 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning of this, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (in modern-day Greece) and İzmir (in modern-day Turkey).<span class="mw-r...
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