February 2

450: Birthdate
of Justin I during whose reign as Byzantine Emperor the Beth Alpha synagogue
was built “at the foot of the northern slopes of the Mt. Gilboa near Beit
She’an.

506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths
promulgated The Brev…

January
26

1482: “The first edition of the Pentateuch with
vowel signs and accents appeared today at Bologna.

1531: Three tremors shake Portugal and numerous
houses are destroyed in Lisbon by an earthquake which the Pope and others
believe confirm th…

January
11 

66(28th
of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest
Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King
Agrippa

314:
Militades, who was the Pope when Constantine and Licinius is…

January 9

638: As a
result of the Sixth Council of Toledo that began today “King Chintilla decreed
that only Catholics were permitted to live in Visigothic Spain.”

681: Erwig,
the Visigoth King of what is now Spain convened the 12th Council of
Toledo…

January 7

1256: Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having
been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of
Lincoln.”  The son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom
Tov of London, Reb Berechiah was an E…

January 2

438: Empress Eudocia, the wife of Byzantine Emperor Theodius II, who
spent the last years of her life in the Holy Land allowed the Jews to return to
Jerusalem and pray at the site of the Temple at the same time her husband was
“announcing le…

December 31

335: End of
the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from
living in Jerusalem.”

535:
Byzantine General Belisarius took the city of Syracuse which marks the
completion of the conquest of Sicily. In 536 he would…