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 November 18

1095: Pope Urban II opened the Council of
Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200
bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem made every other penance sup…

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 November
17

9CE:  Birthdate of Titus Flavius
Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor
put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second Temple.

284: Diocletian is proclaimed empe…

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November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…