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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.
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