This Day, December 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 3311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who...
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December 4771: King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the entire Frankish Kingdom. Following the death of their father, King Pepin the Short, the two brothers had each ruled a...
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December 563 BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero...
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DECEMBER 61060: Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. In 1061 Bela changed the Market Day from the traditional Sunday to Saturday which may have been part of an attempt to remove the Jews from...
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DECEMBER 61060: Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. In 1061 Bela changed the Market Day from the traditional Sunday to Saturday which may have been part of an attempt to remove the Jews from...
View ArticleThis Day, December 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 743 BCE: The famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero died. Cicero was a Patrician, member of the Senate and opponent of Julius Caesar. Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Anthony and Octavian...
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December 865 BCE: Birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Roman poet known as Horace who created “credat Juadaeus Appella” which gave rise to the character of “Jew...
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December 91212: In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that the Jews were a separate...
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December 10925:Sancho I to whom the Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III sent his Jewish physician Hasdai ibn Shaprut so he could “cure” his wife passed away today.1475: Seventy-eight-year-old Italian artist Paolo...
View ArticleThis Day, December 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 11321: A letter from Emperor Constantine the Great regarding special taxes of this date provides the first evidence of Jews along the Rhine. 361: Emperor Julian, referred to as Julian the...
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December 12456 BCE (1st of Tevet, 3305): Ezra opened a convocation on the problem of intermarriage.627: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded...
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December 13522 BCE: Darius I, the Persian monarch who allowed the Jewish people to re-build the Temple at Jerusalem strengthened his hold on his kingdom when he defeated Nebuchadnezzar III in a battle...
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DECEMBER 14164 BCE (3597): On the secular calendar date on which Judah Maccabee restored the service in the Temple in Jerusalem.1243: “King Henry III turned a confiscated synagogue into the chapel of...
View ArticleThis Day, December 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 1537: Birthdate of Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus 5th emperor of Rome. While legend remembers him as the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned, Jews will remember him as the ruler who was...
View ArticleThis Day, December 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 161316: Öljaitü, the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Tabriz, Iran, whom the former vizer Rashid-al-Din Hamadani the Jewish convert to Islam was found of guilty of trying to poison, passed...
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December 17520 BCE (24th of Kislev): “The foundation-stone of the Temple was laid” (As reported by Jewish Encyclopedia)http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4902-darius-i630: Modestus of Jerusalem...
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December 181118: Alfonso the Battler conquered Zaragoza.1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China. Reportedly, Marco Polo found...
View ArticleThis Day, December 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 19324: Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor leaving Constatine I, “the first Christian Emperor” in control of the Roman Empire much to the detriment of the Jewish people.1154: Coronation...
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December 2069: General Vespasianus occupied Rome on the same day that Emperor Vitellius was murdered. Vespasianus is better known as Vespasian, the Roman general who was in charge of putting down the...
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December 2169: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four individuals - Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian –...
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December 2269: Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. Vitellius was the third of The Four Emperors. He would be succeeded by Vespasian, the man who put down the...
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December 23800: Today,Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler “took an oath of purgation concerning the charges of...
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December 243 BCE: Birthdate if of Servus Sulpicius Galba one the emperors who ruled Rome, for a short period of time during the Jewish Revolt that ended with the destruction of the Second Temple1166:...
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December 250337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th. 496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 261135: Coronation of Stephen I, king of England, who in 1141 burned down the house of Aaron f. Isaac in Oxford as a way to “induce” the Jews to providing him with funds to continue his war...
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