JUNE 14
1287:
Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist
Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. It is quite possible that there were Jewish
soldiers serving under the great Mongol warrior who became Emperor …
JUNE 13
823:
Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon. In doing so, Charles was following in the
footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also re…
JUNE 9
68:
The Emperor Nero died in Rome. Nero had appointed four governors of Judea each
of whom was crueler and greedier than his predecessor. The Jewish Revolt in 66
was caused, in part, by this succession of disastrous appointments by Nero.
Nero h…
June 3
350: Roman usurper
Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor,
entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. The Constantinian Dynasty
took its name from its most famous member, Constantine I, the Empe…
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