January 29

904: Sergius
III began his papacy during which Jews first began settling at Mayence, Germany
in 906.

1258: “The
Mongols under Chinese general Guo Kan laid siege to” Baghdad today as part of a
successful invasion Persia which led to the abo…

January 24

41: At midday
today, Caligula, accompanied by Herod Agrippa, the last Jewish King of Judea, was
leaving \ through a covered walkway when one of the Praetorian tribunes
drew his sword and hit his shoulder with such force that he almost fille…

January 19

570: Birthdate
of Mohammed. Mohammed thought the Jews of Arabia would join his new
religion.  When they did not, he turned on them in much the same way
Luther would when the Jews rejected his overtures.

639: Dagobert
I, the first of t…

January 18

360: In a move that demonstrated how Christianity was becoming the state
religion of the Roman Empire with all that meant to detriment of the Jews,
Roman Emperor Constantius II “decreed that only Catholic Churches will be
granted exemptions…

January 17

395: Emperor
Theodosius, I passed away in Milan.  During his reign he instituted
several laws that directly impacted his Jewish subject.  One “dealt with
the obligation of Jews and Samaritans to acts as shipmasters over goods bein…