WHAT HAPPENED ON 2. AUGUST
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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. (2. August 338. 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. (2. August 216. BC)

Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor. (2. August 461)

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 the French King and nobility. (2. August 1343)

Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River. (2. August 1377)

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. (2. August 1610)

The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place. (2. August 1776)

The first United States Census is conducted. (2. August 1790)

French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory. (2. August 1798)

Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri. (2. August 1830)

Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869). (2. August 1869)

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom. (2. August 1870)

The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system. (2. August 1873)

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. (2. August 1897)

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. (2. August 1903)

World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. (2. August 1916)

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. (2. August 1918)

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver. (2. August 1918)

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people. (2. August 1922)

As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding (2. August 1923)