OCTOBER
4

610:  Heraclius attacks
Constantinople, overthrows the Byzantine Emperor Phocas Augustus and proclaims
himself Emperor. The Christian Emperor attacked his Persian neighbors to the
east with disastrous results. In 614, the advancing Pers…

OCTOBER 3

1189: Coronation of Richard the
Lionheart (King Richard I) of England. “All Jews and women are barred from the
coronation ceremony, but Jewish representatives are sent anyway with gifts in
an effort to curry favor with the new English king. …

September 29

522 BCE:
Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king
of the Persian Empire. The success of Darius was good thing for the Jewish
people.  From the Book of Haggai, we can
infer that the building of th…

 September 23

484 BCE:  Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama
in the manner of Euripides.  During the
time of Hellenization of the Jews, a Jewish p…

September 14

81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of the
Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.  Like his father Vespasian and his brother
Titus, Domitian took great deal of pride in the victory over Judea.  On …

September 27

0070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were
battered down by the Roman army

1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son
Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of Plowce.  From a military point of view the bat…

September 21

19 BCE:
Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called
Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems
also known as Bucolics or “Pastorals.. Written in 40 B.C., during the consulship
o…