August 2

Events

338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
1645: The Ottoman army seizes Chania, Crete. The commander of the Turkish force however was executed for losing 40,000 men in the siege.
1679: Athanasius IV becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
1859: King Otto lays the cornerstone of the building of the Academy of Athens.
1989: Former Panathinaikos footballer, Lakis Sofianos, is found hanged in his prison cell.
1991: The daily sports journal Ora gia Sport is first published. The Sebos family is the publisher after their withdrawal from Athlitiki Iho.
2021: The meteorological station of the National Observatory of Athens in Makrakomi, Phthiotis, records a temperature of 46.3 degrees Celsius (115.3 degrees Fahrenheit) - the highest temperature ever recorded by the NOA.

1974: Maroula Lambrou breaks the Greek women's record in the long jump with a jump of 6.62m.
1997: Angelos Pavlakakis breaks the Greek record for the 100m with 10.11.
2006: Nery Niangkouara set a new national record and the bronze metal at the European Swimming Championship in Budapest finishing in third place in the women's 100m freestyle with 54.48".
2021: Miltiadis Tentoglou wins gold in the long jump at the Tokyo Olympics. Lefteris Petrounias wins bronze in the men's rings.
2025: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek record in the pole vault with a 6.08m jump at Volos.