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- 1187
- The Kingdom of Jerusalem surrenders Jerusalem to the Ayyubid Sultanate after a siege.
- 1814
- Chilean defeat in the Battle of Rancagua marks the start of the reconquest of Chile by the Spanish Empire.
- 1891
- The town of Hahira in Georgia, United States is incorporated.
- 1958
- Guinea proclaims its independence from France.
- 1967
- Train service ends on the Cromford and High Peak Railway in Derbyshire, England.
- 2017
- A Ferris wheel opens in the MEGA Alma-Ata shopping complex in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 2, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 2 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.