1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.1812 – The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja.Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808. 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War : The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.1625 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa.1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.May 2 is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar 243 days remain until the end of the year.

Once I Was A Soldier by Daniel Kemp