Historical Events on April 2

Battle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK

1387 naval battle during the Hundred Years' War

1559 battle between the Ethiopian Empire and Sultanate of Harar

1656 treaty between Spain and English Royalists

The creation of Septinsular Republic : the first autonomous Greek State

Battle between British and Dano–Norwegian navies (1801)

1865 American civil war battle

First battle of the 1871 Paris Commune

7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Antakya in south-central Turkey on April 3, 1872

1879 battle of the Anglo-Zulu War fought on the South bank of the Inyezane River

Battle in Philippine Revolutionary War

1909 conflict between cattle ranchers and sheepherders in Wyoming

Riot in Cairo, Egypt caused by Australian and New Zealand soldiers

March Days — 1918 ethnic clashes and massacres in Baku Governorate, Transcaucasia

1918 historical offensive

1919 battle during the Russian Civil War

46th Academy Awards — Award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1973

Lebanese Civil War conflict (1975–1976)

1979 accidental release of anthrax in the Soviet Union

Occurred in St Pauls, Bristol, England on 2 April 1980

Battle in Iraq in 2005

2007 Solomon Islands earthquake

2009 civilian attack in Bat Ayin, Israel

2010 battle in Afganistan

Arms Trade Treaty — treaty regulating the arms trade

Riot in the Loyalist Sandy Row area of south Belfast

Communal violence broke out in Karauli on April 2, 2022