March
5

363: Roman Emperor
Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire,
in a campaign which will bring to his own death. Julian followed Constantine to
the throne and turned back his predecessor’s pro-Christian promu…

 March 3

321:
Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for
honoring the sun as a day of rest.  This
was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and Christianity
and to isolate the Jews.  …

February
23

42(16th
of Adar, 3892): King Agrippa I began the construction of a gate for the of
Jerusalem (pg 128)

68(4th
of Adar, 3828): During the Great Revolt, Vespasian occupied the city of Gadara
as the legions made their slow, inexorable march t…

February
23

42(16th
of Adar, 3892): King Agrippa I began the construction of a gate for the of
Jerusalem (pg 128)

68(4th
of Adar, 3828): During the Great Revolt, Vespasian occupied the city of Gadara
as the legions made their slow, inexorable march t…

February 14

842: 
Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the
French and German languages. The two monarchs were grandsons of Charlemagne
making them cousins. Charles, like the other Carolingian monarchs he refused …

February 6

 337: Julius I began his papacy during
which “he officially declared that the birth of Jesus would be celebrated on
the 25th of December.”

http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml

1095: Henry IV
of Germany who issued a charter …

January 22

1167(23rd
of Shevat, 4927): Ibn-Ezra passed away at the age of 78 in Calahorra which was
on the border between Navarre and Aragon. There is no way that any entry could
do justice to this Sephardic writer, philosopher, scientist and most imp…