JUNE 30

713
CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem
forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A
majority of the remaining Goths and Hispano-Roman people who lived in the newly
acquire…

JUNE 22

217 BCE:
Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the
ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids and the Ptolomies for the land
mass that included…

JUNE 19

325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. The
creed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and only
dealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed altered
the method for selecting the date of Easter….

JUNE 17          

397: Roman Emperors Arcadius and Honorius issue the following
order “The governors must be informed that, upon receipt of this notice,
all insults attacking the Jews shall be averted and that their synag…

JUNE 15

1215:  King John of England puts his seal to the
Magna Carta.  The Great Charter which is
supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains
the following reference to the Jews: “If anyone who borrowed fro…

JUNE 13

823:
Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon.  In doing so, Charles was following in the
footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also re…

JUNE 12

816:
Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of
the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.

1240:
Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope Gregory
IX …