November
13

354:  Birthdate of St. Augustine of
Hippo.  While St. Augustine may be held
in high regard by the Roman Catholic Church, he held the Jews in especially low
regard. In his famous work The City of God, Augustine reports that the
Je…

November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…

November
6

355: Roman Emperor Constantius II
promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the
government of the Prefecture of Gaul. Constantius II followed the pro-Christian
and anti-Jewish policies of his father, Constantine …

November 2

655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which
was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution
“that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during
the Migration Period, had to pass Christian festi…

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…