August 8 117 C.E.: Hadrian named Emperor of the Roman Empire. He is remembered as the man who accepted the limits of the Roman empire, as can be seen by the construction of Hadrian’s Wall in what is today Great Britain. It was design... »
August 5 135: Betar fell to the Romans http://www.jewishmag.com/135mag/beitar/beitar.htm http://archaeology.tau.ac.il/?page_id=2049 939: Battle of Alhandic: Cordoban forces conquered the Leonese city of Zamora, Spain with great cost in lives to bot... »
July 17 1203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital into exile. Unlike other Crusades, the focus of the Fourth Crusade was the Byzantine Empire a... »
August 4 70: According to some, the date on the secular calendar when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans. 367: Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-August by his father and associated to the throne aged eigh... »
July 11 1174: Amalric I who had been King of Jerusalem since 1162 passed away. During his reign most of the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem; a ban that would last until 1175. 1244: “Khorezmian Turkish horsemen launch an attack on Jerusalem, s... »