September 12

490 BCE: According to German scholar Philipp August Böckh, the
Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were led
by Darius I, the ruler under whom the Second Temple was built.  It would not be surprising i…

September
9

337:
Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeeded 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 Roma…

September 8

70: On the secular
calendar, Jerusalem is sacked by the 60,000 troops of Titus’ Roman army after a
six-month siege. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and,
following the city’s capture, another 97,000 were sold into slave…

August 31

12 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor who was crowned in 37
and murdered in 41.  Life for Jews during
his reign was part of the downward spiral that would result in three rebellions
by the Jews over the next one hundred year…

August 30

70: According to
Josephus, the day on which the Second Temple was set aflame

500: Having conquered
Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.

526 Death of Theodoric
the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (the eastern Goth…