This Day, January 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 1 630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main supporters among the Jewish tribes” of Arabia. This...
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January 2438: Empress Eudocia allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem1012: Jewish mourners were attacked at a funeral in Egypt.1481: An edict was handed down in Spain calling for all persons to aid in...
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January 3106 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero is remembered as Roman statesman and orator. From the Jewish point of view he was just one more anti-Semitic intellectual. “He denounced...
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January 441: The Praetorian Guard killed the Roman Emperor Caligula. Caligula is one of those vile figures whose behavior is dismissed as the acts of crazy person. As far as the Jews are concerned,...
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January 5 1355: Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. Charles I morphed into Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor who at the beginning of his reign made an effectual...
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This Day, January 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 6548: This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the WesternChurch.) 1387: John I...
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January 71256:Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of Lincoln.” The son of Rabbi Moses...
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January 8 1198: Start of the papacy of Innocent III who was responsible for the Fourth Lateran Council which produced an array of anti-Jewish promulgations.1297: Monaco gains its independence when...
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January 9 681: Erwig, the Visigoth King of what is now Spain convened the 12thCouncil of Toledo which would enact a variety of measures detrimental to the Jews living in Iberia. 1180: Philip Augustus...
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January 10 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Caesar’s opposition was led by Pompey, the Roman who defiled the Holy of Holies, mocked the Jewish religion and...
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January 11 66(28th of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King Agrippa 314: Militades, who...
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January 121412: In Spain, the regent Donna Catalina acting in the name of the child-king Juan II issued an edict of twenty-four articles intended to impoverish and humiliate the Jews and to reduce them...
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January 13519 BCE: Darius had “a crown made for Zerubbabel out of gold sent by Jews in Babylon.”915: Birthdate of Al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Cordoba from 961 to 976 whose subjects included...
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January 1483 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Antonius, who is better known as Mark Antony (often pronounced Anthony). Mark Antony is credited by some with recognizing Herod as a Jewish leader and elevating...
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January 15588 BCE: On the secular calendar, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BCE69: Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor...
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January 1627 BCE: Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. Ten years earlier Augustus had appointed Herod as King of...
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January 17395: Emperor Theodosius I passed away in Milan. During his reign he instituted several laws that directly impacted his Jewish subject. One “dealt with the obligation of Jews and Samaritans...
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January 18532: In Constantinople the Nika riots come to an end with Justinian still holding the office of Emperor. Senators opposed to Justinian took advantage of these riots, which had grown out of a...
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January 19570: Birthdate of Mohammed. Mohammed thought the Jews of Arabia would join his new religion. When they did not, he turned on them in much the same way Luther would when the Jews rejected his...
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January 20250: Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Decius reign came during a fifty year period (235-285) that was marked by “crisis, confusion and deterioration...
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