Editing August 2 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[338 BC]] &ndash; A [[Ancient Macedonian army|Macedonian army]] led by [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] defeated the combined forces of [[Athens]] and [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] in the [[Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)|Battle of Chaeronea]], securing [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian]] [[hegemony]] in Greece and the [[Aegean civilizations|Aegean]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gagarin |first1=Michael |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome |date=31 December 2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-517072-6 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&pg=RA1-PA81 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[216 BC]] &ndash; The [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] army led by [[Hannibal]] defeats a numerically superior [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army at the [[Battle of Cannae]].
*[[49 BC]] &ndash; [[Caesar]], who marched to Spain earlier in the year, leaving [[Marcus Antonius]] in charge of Italy, defeats [[Pompey]]'s general [[Lucius Afranius (consul)|Afranius]] and [[Marcus Petreius|Petreius]] in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Legrand |first=Jacques |title=Chronicle of the World |publisher=Eca, Publication |year=1989 |isbn=0-13-133463-8 |page=192}}</ref>
* [[461]] &ndash; [[Majorian]] is arrested near [[Tortona]] (northern Italy) and deposed by the [[Suebi]]an general [[Ricimer]] as [[Puppet monarch|puppet emperor]].
* [[932]] &ndash; After a two-year siege, the city of [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], in [[Spain]], surrenders to the forces of the [[Caliphate of Córdoba|Caliph]] of [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] [[Abd al-Rahman III]], assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the [[Central March]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 June 2019 |title=Abderramán III, el primer califa andalusí |url=https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/abderraman-iii-primer-califa-andalusi_14444/}}</ref>
*[[1274]] &ndash; [[Edward I of England]] returns from the [[Ninth Crusade]] and is crowned King seventeen days later.
*[[1343]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; Russian troops are defeated by forces of the [[Blue Horde]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] Arapsha in the [[Battle on Pyana River]].
*[[1415]] &ndash; [[Thomas Grey (1384–1415)|Thomas Grey]] is executed for participating in the [[Southampton Plot]].
*[[1492]] &ndash; [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|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]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Turkey.html|title=Turkey Virtual Jewish History Tour|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>