March 30

1135: On the
secular calendar, birthdate of Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon) in Cordova, Spain.
According to Jewish tradition he was born Erev Pesach. “From Moses to
Moses there was none like Moses.’ This folk saying sums up the greatness of the…

March 24

809: Harun
al-Rashid (Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just), fifth caliph of the Abbasid
Empire who had issued a decree that Jews wear a yellow belt in 807, passed
away.

1244(18th of
Nisan): Rabbi Meir Abulafya Ha-Levi (Ramah) an opponent of Ma…

March 21

456 BCE: The
convocation summoned by Ezra on intermarriage came to an end

629: Byzantine
Emperor Heraclius marched into Jerusalem at the head of his army with the
support of Jewish inhabitants. The Jews who had previously fought with the
Pe…

March 19

235: End of
the reign of Severus Alexander, the 26th Emperor of the Roman Empire

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus

1191: Eighty
Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed
a…

March 17

796 BCE (1st
of Nisan, 2956): Based on computations using the Bible and archaeology,
possible date for the death of Jehoash, King of Judah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoash_of_Judah

45 BCE:  Julius
Caesar defeated the forces of Pom…

March 7

322 BCE:  Aristotle
passed away. “Aristotle was almost universally held in esteem by the Jews; at
one time for his intelligence and mental power, at another as a penitent
sinner. The following is Maimonides’ verdict concerning h…

 March 3

321:
Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for
honoring the sun as a day of rest.  This
was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and Christianity
and to isolate the Jews.  …