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 7

421:
Theodosius II, the Emperor whose code sought to reinforce Christianity as the
state religion at the expense of Judaism, married Aelia Eudocia Augusta, a
pagan who converted so that they could be married by the Church.

1099:  During t…

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…

JUNE 5

70: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle
wall of Jerusalem.

1191 After conquering Cyprus, Richard the Lionheart
and his Crusaders set sail for “the Holy Land.” This crusading left England in
the control of Prince John who, amongst oth…