May 21

383:
As the emperor struggles to make Christianity the state religion of the Roman
Empire he promulgates a law that denies anybody who converts from Christianity
to another religion the right to make a will. 
This law may have had some imp…

 May 19

363:
For a second day in a row, a series of earthquakes that took place along a
fault-line stretching from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba shook the region
around the Galilee. According to some, this seismic event was part of the
reason…

May 13

1333:  Birthdate of Reginald III of Guelders, a
duchy in the Kingdom of Prussia.  In 1349
the Duke of Guelders, was authorized by the Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman
Empire of Germany to allow Jews to live in his duchy.  This …

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…