January
25

41: Claudius
is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. “Claudius rescinded Caligula’s
provocative decrees affecting Judean and reaffirmed Jewish rights throughout
the rest of the Roman world.”  Claudius supported the cause of the Jew…

January 15

588 BCE: 
On the secular calendar, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem
under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BCE 

69: Servius
Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69) was killed by Praeto…

January 3

106 BCE:
Birthdate of Marcus Tullius, the Roman statesman and orator.  From the Jewish point of view he was just one
more anti-Semitic intellectual.  “He
denounced Judaism as a ‘barbarous superstition.’” He defended a Roman officia…

January
1

630:  Prophet Muhammad sets out
toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.  At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main
supporters among the Jewish tribes” of Arabia. 
This can be seen in his early adoption …

DECEMBER 7

43 BCE: The famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero
died.  Cicero was a Patrician, member of
the Senate and opponent of Julius Caesar. 
Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Anthony and Octavian executed
those whom they viewed as ene…

December 3

311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.

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1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…

November 30

1215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by
Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made the first
official use of the term “transubstantiation,” with reference to the
Eucharist (Lord’s Supper). The adoption of …