July 7

1274: Pope
Gregory X confirmed a bull issued in 1272 banning charges of blood ritual.

1307: King
Edward I, the monarch who expelled the Jews from England, died.

1320: In
Pastoureaux (Southern France), an unnamed shepherd started a crusade aga…

 July 3

324:  Constantine the Great defeated Licinius at
the Battle of Adrianople. Constantine ruled the western half of the Roman
Empire.  Licinius ruled the eastern half.  In 313 the two rulers had issued the Edict of
Milan which…

JUNE 19

325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. The
creed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and only
dealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed altered
the method for selecting the date of Easter….

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
6

1191: As the
Christians seek to retake Jerusalem King Richard the Lionhearted arrived at
Tyre.

1142: Today,
during the second Siege of Coria, Emperor Alonso VII of Leon and Castille
“granted the village of Fradejas to the Diocese of Zamora” t…

 May 7

833
BCE (2 Iyar 2928): Traditional date on which King Solomon began building the
Temple in Jerusalem.

351:
Gallus, who had been appointed “Caesar” of the East by his cousin, the Emperor
Constantius II arrived in Antioch. Antioch was the c…

 April
19

According to one
web-site, April 19th is one of the blackest days on the Jewish calendar. From
the 11th century (1014) through the 20th century (1943) this
date is remembered for the atrocities which took place. Below are a few: )

1014…