Template:On this day - May 2

Luis Daoíz

• 693 – In Visigothic Hispania, Egica orders the close of the Sixteenth Council of Toledo.
• 1482 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain) the Abencerrajes stage an attempted rebellion, which leads King Abu-l-Hasan Ali (convinced of the complicity of his wife Aixa and his son Boabdil) to lock them up in the Tower of Comares.
• 1492 – On the outskirts of the Town of Madrid (Spain) the village of San Sebastián de los Reyes is founded after some residents flee the town of Alcobendas.
• 1576 – Death of Bartolomé de Carranza, Spanish archbishop and theologian (b. 1503).
• 1598 – Philip II of Spain and Henry IV of France sign the Peace of Vervins, one of the treaties that served to end the French Wars of Religion.
• 1620 – The city of Panama (which had 8,000 inhabitants) suffers an earthquake that leaves many dead and injured, and structural damage.
• 1672 – Fray Buenaventura de Villasboa founds the town of Itapé in Paraguay.
• 1808 – The people of Madrid rise up against the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, in what came to be called the Uprising of 2 May.
• 1808 – Death of Luis Daoíz, Spanish military officer, hero of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain (1808-1812) (b. 1767).
• 1808 – Death of Pedro Velarde, Spanish military officer, hero against the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain (b. 1779).
• 1816 – The Naval Battle of Los Frailes is fought near the Los Frailes Archipelago (present-day Venezuela).
• 1820 – The Chilean port of Talcahuano is occupied by the royalist forces of the guerrilla leader Vicente Benavides, in the context of the violent raids of the so-called War to the Death.
• 1866 – The Battle of Callao takes place, a clash in the waters of this Peruvian port between a squadron of the Spanish Navy and the defenses of Callao. After this battle Spain withdraws its naval forces from the Pacific coast.
• 1896 – The First Federal State of Loreto is proclaimed after an insurrection in territories now belonging to Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.
• 1909 – Death of Manuel Amador Guerrero, politician, physician and first President of Panama.
• 1928 – In Madrid and Cádiz, the premiere of the play El clamor (written jointly by Azorín and Pedro Muñoz Seca) leads to Azorín's expulsion from the Madrid Press Association.
• 1929 – Death of Segundo de Chomón, pioneering director of silent film and special effects technician (b. 1871).
• 1931 – In Spain it is decreed that the Himno de Riego replace the Marcha Real as the national anthem of Spain.
• 1935 – The first standards body in Hispanic America is founded, the IRAM in Argentina.
• 1945 – The French politician Pierre Laval, a prominent collaborator of Nazi Germany, arrives in Barcelona, accompanied by his wife and four other fugitives of the Vichy regime.
• 1985 – In Móstoles (Spain), the town council signs a symbolic peace declaration with France, since it had officially still been in a state of war since the issuing of the Proclamation of the Mayors of Móstoles.
• 1986 – The Sociedad Científica Juvenil, a science outreach organization, is founded in Ensenada (Mexico).
• 1988 – The Council of Europe awards the European Museum of the Year prize to that of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid.
• 1999 – In Panama, Mireya Moscoso (widow of president Arnulfo Arias) is elected president after defeating the ruling party candidate Martín Torrijos (son of the late dictator Omar Torrijos).
• 2002 – In the Colombian municipality of Bojayá (Chocó Department), the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) massacre 119 people.
• 2016 – Death of Fernando Soto Aparicio, Colombian writer, screenwriter and teacher (b. 1933).
• 2019 – Death of Rafael Hernández Colón, governor of Puerto Rico, defender of Puerto Rican cultural identity, who established by law Spanish as the official language of the island (b. 1936).