OCTOBER
10

614:
Today the fifth Council of Paris “prohibited the Jews from asking or from
exercising civic or administrative rights.”

680:
At the Battle of Karbala, Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad, was decapitated by fo…

OCTOBER 1

2016 B.C.E.:  According to some the anniversary of the
Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date
is easily open to debate.  There is a general agreement among those who
accept the existence of Ab…

September 22

384:
Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from
buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves are found with Jews, they
must be removed and sold to other Christians. If a Jewish master conver…

 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 consul…

September 20

357
B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. 
Alexander’s eastern conquests would bring the Jews in contact with Greek
Culture.  The conflict between Greek and
Jewish values would become a dominant motif in Jewish history over …

September 10

134
CE: The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Akiva, was taken captive by the Romans, and
executed five days later in Caesarea, Israel. Rabbi Akiva had been a
40-year-old shepherd who could not even read the Aleph-Bet. One day, he came across
a …

 September 3

175(BCE): Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek King of the Channukah story
began his reign today.

141 BCE (18th of Elul, 3619): The fight begun by Matthias and
Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest an…