July 30 …
August 9
48 B.C.E.: Julius
Caesar defeated Pompey at the battle of Parsalus. This victory helped to cement
Caesar’s position and put an end to Pompey. Considering Pompey’s behavior
towards the Jews, including his desecration of the Temple, Caesar’s vi…
July 20
356 BCE: In Macedonia, King Philip
II and Queen Olympia gave birth to Alexander the Great. You can draw a straight
line from Alexander’s Hellenization of Asia Minor to Chanukah to Tisha B’Av, 70
CE.
http://www.biography.com/print/profil…
July 18
64: During the
reign of Emperor Nero, the Great Fire begins in Rome. After the fire, Nero avoided the initial
inclination to blame the blaze on the Jews.
Instead, he targeted the nascent Christian sect which had recently
become act…
August 3
8
C.E.: Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
As the stepson of Augustus, Tiberius would become Caesar four years after this
victory. Tiberius did appoint Pontius
Pilate as the procurator of Judea…
August 5
135: Betar fell to the
Romans
http://www.jewishmag.com/135mag/beitar/beitar.htm
http://archaeology.tau.ac.il/?page_id=2049
939: Battle of
Alhandic: Cordoban forces conquered the Leonese city of Zamora, Spain with
great cost in lives to bot…
July 14
1086:
Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born
in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his
reign, in 1079, Jews reportedly made their first appearance in the Emerald
Isle. “The Annals of Inisfallen record …
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