Battles on 2 April
14 battles fought (or begun) on 2 April, from 1801 to 2005, in date order. Dates are from Wikidata and are shown only for battles from 1600 onwards with a single exact date. Dates recorded in the Julian (Old Style) calendar are listed under their Julian day and marked.
Which battles happened on 2 April?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (1801), Siege of the Church of the Nativity (2002), Battle of the Hotels (1976).
- Battle of Copenhagen (1801) 2 April 1801Denmark · War of the Second Coalition
- Battle of Las Queseras del Medio 2 April 1813Venezuela · Venezuelan War of Independence
- Battle of Lüneburg 2 April 1813Germany
- Battle of Hatvan 2 April 1849Hungary · Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Skirmish at Terre Noire Creek 2 April 1864United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Selma 2 April 1865United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Sutherland's Station 2 April 1865United States · American Civil War
- Third Battle of Petersburg 2 April 1865United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Gingindlovu 2 April 1879South Africa · Anglo-Zulu War
- First Battle of the Jordan 2 April 1918Jordan · Middle Eastern theater of World War I
- Battle of the Hotels 2 April 1976Lebanon · Lebanese Civil War
- Siege of the Church of the Nativity 2 April 2002 – 10 May 2002Palestine · Operation Defensive Shield
- Battle of the Karbala Gap (2003) 2 April 2003 – 4 April 2003Iraq · 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Battle of Abu Ghraib 2 April 2005Iraq · Iraqi insurgency