| 75331 | July 2 | Event | 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4. |
| 75332 | July 2 | Event | 1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery. |
| 75333 | July 2 | Event | 1816 – The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. |
| 75334 | July 2 | Event | 1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. |
| 75335 | July 2 | Event | 1823 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. |
| 75336 | July 2 | Event | 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad. |
| 75337 | July 2 | Event | 1839 – Abdülmecid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. |
| 75338 | July 2 | Event | 1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War. |
| 75339 | July 2 | Event | 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. |
| 75340 | July 2 | Event | 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19. |
| 75341 | July 2 | Event | 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act. |
| 75342 | July 2 | Event | 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. |
| 75343 | July 2 | Event | 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
| 75344 | July 2 | Event | 1900 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. |
| 75345 | July 2 | Event | 1917 – The East St. Louis riots end. |
| 75346 | July 2 | Event | 1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany. |
| 75347 | July 2 | Event | 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. |
| 75348 | July 2 | Event | 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. |
| 75349 | July 2 | Event | 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. |
| 75350 | July 2 | Event | 1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down. |
| 75351 | July 2 | Event | 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. |
| 75352 | July 2 | Event | 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. |
| 75353 | July 2 | Event | 1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. |
| 75354 | July 2 | Event | 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
| 75355 | July 2 | Event | 1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. |
| 75356 | July 2 | Event | 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. |
| 75357 | July 2 | Event | 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted. |
| 75358 | July 2 | Event | 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. |
| 75359 | July 2 | Event | 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. |
| 75360 | July 2 | Event | 2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. |