Events on 2 August 43
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Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
Year 1274
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
Year 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.
Year 1377
Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
Year 1610
During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
Year 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 2
Birthdays on 2 August 221
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Kyawswa of Pagan
b. 1260 – d. 1299
Kyawswa of Pagan, last ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1299)
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
b. 1455 – d. 1499
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
Theodor Zwinger
b. 1533 – d. 1588
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (d. 1588)
Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł
b. 1549 – d. 1616
Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1616)
Saskia van Uylenburgh
b. 1612 – d. 1642
Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
b. 1627 – d. 1678
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (d. 1678)
Estephan El Douaihy
b. 1630 – d. 1704
Estephan El Douaihy, Maronite patriarch (d. 1704)
Jean-Baptiste du Casse
b. 1646 – d. 1715
Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (d. 1715)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
b. 1672 – d. 1733
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733)
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
b. 1674 – d. 1723
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1723)
Mahmud I
b. 1696 – d. 1754
Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1754)
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau
b. 1702 – d. 1769
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)
Deaths on 2 August 103
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Gnaeus Servilius Geminus
d. 216
Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Roman consul
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC)
d. 216
Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Roman consul and general
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Marcus Minucius Rufus
d. 216
Marcus Minucius Rufus, Roman consul
Pope Stephen I
d. 257
Pope Stephen I
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Pope Severinus
d. 640
Pope Severinus
Pope John V
d. 686 (b. 635)
Pope John V (b. 635)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
d. 855 (b. 780)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab theologian and jurist (b. 780)
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Ælfweard of Wessex
d. 924 (b. 904)
Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
John VIII of Constantinople
d. 1075
Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople
William II of England
d. 1100 (b. 1056)
William II of England (b. 1056)
Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse
d. 1222 (b. 1156)
Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
Pervâne
d. 1277
Mu'in al-Din Sulaiman Pervane, Chancellor and Regent of the Sultanate of Rum