September 30

132
C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi
Akiva passed away.  He was born in 50
C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple.   According to tradition, he was an unle…

September 27

0070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were
battered down by the Roman army

1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son
Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of Plowce.  From a military point of view the bat…

September 25

275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the
senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the
pleasure of the Army.  In the case of
Tacitus, that meant a mere six months. 
One of the Empe…

September 22

384:
Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from
buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves are found with Jews, they
must be removed and sold to other Christians. If a Jewish master conver…

September 13

586
BCE (3 Tishrei 3338): On the civil calendar assassination of Gedaliah ben
Achikam. He had been appointed Governor of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar in an
attempt to revitalize the Jewish community. His assassin, Ishmael ben Natanya,
a descen…

September
9 

337:
Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine
I as co-emperors dividing the Roman Empire between the three Augusti.
Constantine was responsible for making Christianity the state religion of the …

September 4

476:
The German general Odoacer defeated Orestes and deposed the child emperor
Romulus Augustus marking the “official end of the Roman Empire.”  Actually, this was the end of the Empire in
the West. The Eastern Empire continued to rul…