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On October 2, 829: Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

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Featured moment · 829

Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

Theophilos was Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm.

People

Born on October 2

Sam Konstas 2005– Australian cricketer (born 2005)
Jacob Sartorius 2002– American social media personality (born 2002)
Quadeca 2000– American rapper, producer, and YouTuber (born 2000)
Tom Trbojevic 1996– Australia international rugby league footballer
Tepai Moeroa 1995– Cook Islands international rugby league & union footballer
Lance McCullers Jr. 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Alisson Becker 1992– Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Shane Larkin 1992– American-Turkish basketball player (born 1992)
Nicol Ruprecht 1992– Austrian rhythmic gymnast
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Roberto Firmino 1991– Brazilian footballer (born 1991)
Samantha Barks 1990– British actress (born 1990)
Frederik Andersen 1989– Danish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Josh Bailey 1989– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Aaron Hicks 1989– American baseball player (born 1989)
George Nash 1989– British rower
Brittany Howard 1988– American musician (born 1988)
Joe Ingles 1987– Australian basketball player (born 1987)
Phil Kessel 1987– American ice hockey player (born 1987)

People

Died on October 2

Susie Berning American professional golfer (1941–2024)
Marissa Haque Indonesian actress (1962–2024)
Francis Lee English footballer (1944–2023)
Sacheen Littlefeather American actress and activist (1946–2022)
Jack Biondolillo American professional ten-pin bowler (1940–2021)
Anne-Marie Hutchinson Irish lawyer (1957–2020)
Jamal Khashoggi Saudi journalist and dissident (1958–2018)
Tom Petty American rock musician (1950–2017)
Neville Marriner English conductor and violinist (1924–2016)
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Brian Friel Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)
Coleridge Goode British Jamaican-born jazz bassist (1914–2015)
Johnny Paton Scottish footballer, snooker referee
Robert Flower Australian rules footballer
Abraham Nemeth American mathematician (1918–2013)
Nguyễn Chí Thiện Vietnamese-American dissident, activist and poet
Charles Roach Canadian civil rights lawyer and activist
J. Philippe Rushton Canadian psychologist and author (1943–2012)
Kwa Geok Choo Singaporean lawyer (1920–2010)

Timeline

Every October 2 on record

  1. 829 Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

    Byzantine emperor from 829 to 842

    Theophilos was Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm.

  2. 939 Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.

    939 AD battle for royal succession within the Kingdom of Germany

    The Battle of Andernach, between the followers and the opponents of King Otto I of Germany, took place on 2 October 939 in Andernach on the Rhine river and ended with a decisive defeat of the rebels and the death of their leaders.

  3. 1187 Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces following a prolonged siege.

    Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1137–1193)

    Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, commonly known as Saladin, was a Kurdish commander and political leader. He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.

  4. 1263 The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

    1263 battle of the Scottish-Norwegian War

    The Battle of Largs was a battle between the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde near Largs, Scotland. The conflict formed part of the Norwegian expedition against Scotland in 1263, in which Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard of Scotland. Victory was achieved by the Scots with a crafty three-tiered strategy on the part of the young Scottish king, Alexander III: plodding diplomacy forced the campaign to bad weather months and a ferocious storm ravaged the Norwegian fleet, stripping it of many vessels and supplies and making the forces on the Scottish coast vulnerable to an attack that forced the Norwegians into a hasty retreat that was to end their 500-year history of invasion, and leaving Scotland to consolidate its resources into building the nation.

  5. 1470 The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.

    English peer in the Wars of the Roses

    Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander. The eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, he became Earl of Warwick through marriage, and was the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the leaders in the Wars of the Roses, originally on the Yorkist side but later switching to the Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the deposition of two kings, which led to his epithet of "Kingmaker".

  6. 1552 Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
  7. 1766 The Nottingham Cheese Riot breaks out at the Goose Fair in Nottingham, UK, in response to the excessive cost of cheese.
  8. 1780 American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
  9. 1789 The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
  10. 1835 Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
  11. 1864 American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
  12. 1870 By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
  13. 1919 Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" following a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson has a catastrophic stroke at the White House, leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency.
  14. 1920 Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
  15. 1928 The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
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  1. 1937 Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
  2. 1942 World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
  3. 1944 World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
  4. 1958 Guinea declares its independence from France.
  5. 1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  6. 1968 Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
  7. 1970 An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
  8. 1971 South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
  9. 1971 British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
  10. 1980 Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
  11. 1990 Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
  12. 1992 Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
  13. 1996 Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
  14. 1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
  15. 2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.

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