OCTOBER 29

539
BCE:  On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to
Cyrus the Great of Persia.  This is a
significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to
Eretz Israel where the Second Temple would be built.

969:
Byzant…

OCTOBER
28

97:
Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius
Trajanus as his heir and successor. Trajan would not become Emperor until Nerva
died in January of the following year. Trajan will be remembered as the rule…

OCTOBER
27

312:  Constantine the Great is said to have
received his famous Vision of the Cross which will join the Sword of
Constantine to the Cross of Christ in the governing of the Roman Empire, much
to the detriment of the Jews for centuries t…

OCTOBER 26

1235:
King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II
(1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials.
The nobles of the country, however, induced the king, in his Golden Bull
(1222),…

OCTOBER 25

1135:
Louis VII, who “banished from the kingdom those Jews who had been converted to
Christianity and had later returned to Judaism” was crowned “Junior King of
France” today; following a Capetian custom of holding the coronation of the
hei…