On this day: 2 March
Events, births and deaths on 2 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Births · Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne
- Events · 2016 Sumatra earthquake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Murray Rothbard
- Births · Bernard Agré
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 986 · Deaths · Lothair of France
- 1009 · Deaths · Mokjong
- 968 · Deaths · William, Archbishop of Mainz
Events · 22
- 537(Julian date)Siege of Rome — 537–538 siege during the Gothic War
- 1444(Julian date)League of Lezhë — former country
- 1476Battle of Grandson — Burgundian defeat in the Burgundian Wars, 2 March 1476
- 1657Great Fire of Meireki — conflagration
- 1776Battle of the Rice Boats — 1776 land and naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1811Battle of San Nicolás — 1811 naval battle between Spanish royalists and Buenos Aires revolutionary government
- 1836Republic of Texas — sovereign nation (not recognized by Mexico) in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846
- 1919Communist International — political organization (1919–1943)
- 1919Founding Congress of the Comintern — 1919 gathering which established the Comintern
- 1943Battle of the Bismarck Sea — 1943 Allied attack on a Japanese convoy
- 1956Morocco — sovereign state in North Africa
- 19621962 Burmese coup d'état — Major Burmese political event
- 1962Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game — National Basketball Association regular-season game played on March 2, 1962
- 1965Operation Rolling Thunder — US aerial bombing campaign against North Vietnam (1965–68)
- 1969Sino-Soviet border conflict — 1969 undeclared conflict between USSR and People's Republic of China
- 1977Libya — sovereign state in North Africa
- 20042004 Ashura bombings in Iraq — anti-Shia terrorist attacks in Iraq during the U.S. occupation
- 2006Cumbres case — double homicide case that occurred in Monterrey, Mexico
- 2012March 2–3, 2012 tornado outbreak — tornado outbreak
- 201486th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2013
- 20162016 Sumatra earthquake — earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia
- 20262026 Lebanon war — Ongoing conflict in the Middle East
Births · 60
- 1316(Julian date)Robert II of Scotland — King of Scots from 1371 to his death as the first monarch of the House of Stewart
- 1459(Julian date)Adrian VI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523)
- 1760Camille Desmoulins — French journalist, politician and revolutionary (1760-1794)
- 1770Louis-Gabriel Suchet — French military commander (1770-1826)
- 1793Sam Houston — American statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
- 1800Yevgeny Baratynsky — Russian poet (1800-1844)
- 1810Leo XIII — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
- 1817János Arany — Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817–1882)
- 1820Multatuli — Dutch author (1820-1887)
- 1824Bedřich Smetana — Czech composer
- 1829Carl Schurz — Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)
- 1859Sholem Aleichem — Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
- 1876Pius XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
- 1880Mitsumasa Yonai — Prime Minister of Japan (1880-1948)
- 1900Kurt Weill — German composer (1900–1950)
- 1904Dr. Seuss — American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
- 1914Martin Ritt — American film director (1914–1990)
- 1917Desi Arnaz — Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer (1917-1986)
- 1919Jennifer Jones — American actress (1919–2009)
- 1926Murray Rothbard — American economist (1926–1995)
- 1930Tom Wolfe — American author and journalist (1930–2018)
- 1931Mikhail Gorbachev — leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
- 1937Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa — President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
- 1938Ricardo Lagos — Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
- 1942Lou Reed — American rock musician (1942–2013)
Deaths · 60
- 274(Julian date)Mani — 3rd century prophet and founder of Manichaeism
- 672(Julian date)Chad of Mercia — Archbishop of York; Bishop of Lichfield
- 968(Julian date)William, Archbishop of Mainz — Archbishop of Mainz
- 986Lothair of France — King of West Francia from 954 to 986
- 1009(Julian date)Mokjong — the king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea
- 1127(Julian date)Charles I, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127
- 1316(Julian date)Marjorie Bruce — Scottish princess (c. 1296 – 1316/17)
- 1333(Julian date)Władysław I the Elbow-high — King of Poland (1260-1333)
- 1589Alessandro Farnese — Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)
- 1619Anne of Denmark — Queen consort of James VI of Scots, I of England (1574-1619)
- 1729Francesco Bianchini — Italian philosopher, astronomer and archaeologist (1662-1729)
- 1755Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon — French writer (1675-1755)
- 1791John Wesley — British cleric and founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
- 1793Carl Gustaf Pilo — Danish-Swedish artist (1711-1793)
- 1797Horace Walpole — English writer and politician (1717–1797)
- 1829Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez — Mexican insurgent (1768–1829)
- 1830Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring — German anatomist and paleontologist (1755–1830)
- 1835Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor — also known as Francis I, Emperor of Austria (1768-1835)
- 1840Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers — German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
- 1894Jubal Early — lawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate States Army (1816-1894)
- 1895Berthe Morisot — French painter (1841-1895)
- 1895Isma'il Pasha — Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879
- 1921Champ Clark — American politician (1850–1921)
- 1930D. H. Lawrence — English writer and poet (1885–1930)
- 1939Howard Carter — British egyptologist (1874–1939)
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