February 2 450: Birthdate of Justin I during whose reign as Byzantine Emperor the Beth Alpha synagogue was built “at the foot of the northern slopes of the Mt. Gilboa near Beit She’an. 506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgated The Brev... »
February 1 682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in an area that corresponds to much of modern-day Spain. This put further pressure on the Jews to c... »
January 29 904: Sergius III began his papacy during which Jews first began settling at Mayence, Germany in 906. 1258: “The Mongols under Chinese general Guo Kan laid siege to” Baghdad today as part of a successful invasion Persia which led to the abo... »
January 27 98: Nerva, the Roman emperor who in “96 Nerva courted popularity in Rome for his new regime by changing the way in which the special tax on Jews payable to the fiscus Judaicus was exacted” passed away today. https://www.cambridge.org/core/... »