Battles on 2 August
21 battles fought (or begun) on 2 August, from 1649 to 2012, 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 August?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964), Battle of Mobile Bay (1864), Battle of Vågen (1665).
- Battle of Rathmines 2 August 1649Ireland · Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Vågen 2 August 1665Norway · Second Anglo-Dutch War
- Battle of Teplitz 2 August 1762Czechia
- Battle of Sandöström 2 August 1808 – 3 August 1808Finland · Finnish War
- Battle of Fort Stephenson 2 August 1813United States · War of 1812
- Battle of Debrecen (1849) 2 August 1849Hungary
- Battle of Agra 2 August 1857India · Indian Mutiny of 1857
- First Zeitun Resistance 2 August 1862Turkey · Armenian national movement
- Battle of Mobile Bay 2 August 1864 – 23 August 1864United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Saarbrücken 2 August 1870Germany · Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Fundina 2 August 1876Montenegro · Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1876–78
- Skirmish at Joncherey 2 August 1914France · World War I
- Battle of al-Mazraa 2 August 1925 – 3 August 1925Syria · Great Syrian Revolt
- Battle of Centuripe 2 August 1943 – 4 August 1943Italy · World War II
- Battle of Pęcice 2 August 1944Poland · World War II
- Battle of the Notch 2 August 1950South Korea · Korean War
- Gulf of Tonkin incident 2 August 1964 – 4 August 1964At sea · Vietnam War
- Battle of Dasman Palace 2 August 1990Kuwait · Gulf War
- Battle of Failaka 2 August 1990Kuwait · Gulf War
- Battle of the Bridges 2 August 1990Kuwait · Gulf War
- Siege of Menagh Air Base 2 August 2012 – 6 August 2013Syria · Syrian Civil War