What is October 2?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[829]] &ndash; [[Theophilus (emperor)|Theophilus]] becomes [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]]. * [[1187]] &ndash; [[Saladin]] captures [[Jerusalem]] after 88 years of [[Crusades|Crusader]] rule. * [[1263]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Largs]] is fought between [[Scotland|Scots]] and [[Norway|Norwegians]]. * [[1535]] &ndash; [[Jacques Cartier]] discovers [[Montreal, Quebec]]. * [[1552]] &ndash; Conquest of [[Kazan]] by [[Russia]]n [[Tsar]] [[Ivan the Terrible]]. * [[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Great Britain|British]] spy [[John Andre]] is hanged by [[United States|American]] forces for his role in [[Benedict Arnold|Benedict Arnold's]] plot to sell [[West Point]] to the [[British Army]]. * [[1814]] &ndash; [[Battle of Rancagua]]: [[Spain|Spanish]] royalist troops under [[Mariano Osorio]] defeat rebel [[Chile]]an forces under [[Bernardo O'Higgins]] and [[Jose Miguel Carrera]]. * [[1835]] &ndash; [[Texas Revolution]] begins: [[Battle of Gonzales]] – [[Mexico|Mexican]] soldiers attempt to disarm the people of [[Gonzales, Texas]] but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. * [[1836]] &ndash; Naturalist [[Charles Darwin]] returns to [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]], [[England]] aboard the [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] after a 5–year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his [[theory of evolution]]. * [[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Saltville]] – [[United States|Union]] forces attack [[Saltville, Virginia]] but are defeated by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops. * [[1889]] &ndash; In [[Washington, DC]], the first international [[Conference of American States]] begins. * [[1889]] &ndash; In [[Colorado]], Nicolas Creede strikes it rich in [[silver]] during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1919]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partial