What happened on 2 April?

15 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 33 The Last Supper in the upper room Luke 22: the Passover meal — bread broken and wine poured as his body and blood, feet washed, and a betrayer at the table.
2. 1982 Falklands War Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands defeated by a British task force.
3. 33 Gethsemane: the agony and the arrest Mark 14: "not what I will, but what thou wilt" — sweat like drops of blood, sleeping friends, a kiss, and swords in the torchlight.
4. 1939 Born: Marvin Gaye Motown singer-songwriter.
5. 1840 Born: Émile Zola Naturalist novelist and chief defender of Dreyfus; author of Germinal and the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
6. 1175 BCE Nausicaa finds the castaway Odyssey 6: a princess doing the laundry, a naked stranger salt-caked from two days in the sea, and the most delicate courtesy in the poem.
7. 2005 Death of Pope John Paul II The end of a 26-year pontificate that helped topple communism; one of the most-attended funerals in history follows.
8. 2022 Bucha massacre Mass killings of civilians by Russian forces near Kyiv come to light after their retreat, drawing global condemnation.
9. 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick's epoch-making science-fiction film.
10. 1453 The chain across the Golden Horn As the Ottoman army arrives, the defenders stretch a great iron boom across the mouth of the Golden Horn, sealing the city's harbour to the sultan's fleet. It holds for weeks and d
11. 2025 Liberation Day tariffs In the Rose Garden Trump announces sweeping 'reciprocal' tariffs on almost every US trading partner; global markets suffer their sharpest fall since 2020 before most rates are paus
12. 2011 India wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup At his sixth World Cup, Tendulkar finally lifts the trophy on home soil in Mumbai; his teammates carry him around the Wankhede on their shoulders.
13. 1944 ANC Youth League founded Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo found a youth wing that pushes the cautious African National Congress towards mass action.
14. 1801 Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye, ignores the signal to withdraw, and batters the Danish fleet at anchor — neutrality is no protection in Napoleon's Europe.
15. 1783 The Duke of Portland's first premiership A nominal head for the Fox-North coalition, dismissed by George III over the India Bill.