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On February 2, 506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".

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Featured moment · 506

Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".

Alaric II was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484; he was the great-grandson of the more famous Alaric I, who sacked Rome in 410. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour in Aquitaine.

People

Born on February 2

Eleonore Caburet 2004– French rhythmic gymnast (born 2004)
Westcol 2001– Colombian streamer (born 2001)
Munetaka Murakami 2000– Japanese baseball player (born 2000)
Jeff Okudah 1999– American football player (born 1999)
Shiho Katō 1998– Japanese singer and model
Ellie Bamber 1997– English actress (born 1997)
Christian Dvorak 1996– American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Paul Mescal 1996– Irish actor (born 1996)
Harry Winks 1996– English footballer (born 1996)
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Paul Digby 1995– English footballer
Aleksander Jagiełło 1995– Polish footballer
Arfa Karim 1995– Pakistani computer prodigy (1995–2012)
Curtis Lazar 1995– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Remilia 1995– American professional gamer (1995–2019)
Caterina Bosetti 1994– Italian professional volleyball player
Bobby Decordova-Reid 1993– Jamaican footballer (born 1993)
Ravel Morrison 1993– Jamaica international footballer (born 1993)
Lammtarra 1992– American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse (1992–2014)

People

Died on February 2

Brian Murphy English comic actor (1932–2025)
Don Murray American actor (1929–2024)
Carl Weathers American actor and football player (1948–2024) K. Viswanath Indian director, screenwriter, and actor (1930–2023)
Butch Miles American jazz drummer (1944–2023)
Captain Sir Tom Moore British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)
Bernard Ebbers Canadian-American businessman and fraudster (1941–2020)
Mad Mike Hoare British-Irish military officer and mercenary (1919–2020)
Bob Elliott American comedian (1923–2016)
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Joseph Alfidi American pianist, composer, and conductor
Dave Bergman American baseball player (1953–2015)
Andriy Kuzmenko Ukrainian musical artist (1968–2015)
Molade Okoya-Thomas Nigerian businessman and philanthropist
Stewart Stern American screenwriter (1922-2015)
The Jacka American rapper (1977–2015)
Gerd Albrecht German conductor (1935–2014)
Tommy Aquino American motorcycle racer
Nicholas Brooks English medieval historian

Timeline

Every February 2 on record

  1. 506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".

    King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507

    Alaric II was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484; he was the great-grandson of the more famous Alaric I, who sacked Rome in 410. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour in Aquitaine.

  2. 880 Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.

    880 battle between the Duchy of Saxony and the Norse Great Heathen Army

    The Battle of Lüneburg Heath was a conflict between the army of King Louis the Younger and the Norse Great Heathen Army fought on 2 February 880 CE, at Lüneburg Heath in today's Lower Saxony.

  3. 962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.

    Linear succession of transfers of power

    Translatio imperii is a historiographical concept that was prominent among medieval thinkers and intellectuals in Europe, but which originated from earlier concepts in antiquity. According to this concept, the notion of decline and fall of an empire is theoretically replaced by a natural succession from one empire to another. Translatio implies that an empire can metahistorically be transferred from hand to hand and place to place, from Troy to Romans and Greeks to Franks and further on to Spain, and has therefore survived.

  4. 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1027 to 1039

    Conrad II, also known as Conrad the Elder and Conrad the Salic, was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad ruled the kingdoms of Germany, Italy and Burgundy.

  5. 1141 The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.

    Battle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda

    The Battle of Lincoln, or the First Battle of Lincoln, occurred on 2 February 1141 in Lincoln, England between King Stephen of England and forces loyal to Empress Matilda. Stephen was captured during the battle, imprisoned, and effectively deposed while Matilda ruled for a short time.

  6. 1207 Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
  7. 1347 Byzantine Empress Anna convenes a synod to depose patriarch Joseph XIV in Constantinople. The same night, conspirators let in her rival John VI Kantakouzenos which ends the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347.
  8. 1428 An intense earthquake struck the Principality of Catalonia, with the epicenter near Camprodon. Widespread destruction and heavy casualties were reported.
  9. 1438 Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
  10. 1461 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
  11. 1536 Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  12. 1645 Wars of the Three Kingdoms: In Scotland, the Battle of Inverlochy results in a Royalist/Irish victory.
  13. 1653 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
  14. 1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
  15. 1725 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.
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  1. 1797 The siege of Mantua ends after eight months when Count Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser surrenders the fortress of Mantua to Napoleon Bonaparte. The fall of Mantua secures French control over Northern Italy and marks the beginning of the conclusion of the Italian campaign of 1796-1797, and sets the stage for the end of the War of the First Coalition.
  2. 1814 The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
  3. 1848 Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
  4. 1850 Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
  5. 1868 Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.
  6. 1870 The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
  7. 1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
  8. 1881 The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.
  9. 1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
  10. 1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  11. 1901 Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  12. 1909 The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPPC cartel in the United States.
  13. 1913 Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
  14. 1920 The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
  15. 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

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