August 9

48 B.C.E.: Julius
Caesar defeated Pompey at the battle of Parsalus. This victory helped to cement
Caesar’s position and put an end to Pompey. Considering Pompey’s behavior
towards the Jews, including his desecration of the Temple, Caesar’s vi…

July 18

64: During the
reign of Emperor Nero, the Great Fire begins in Rome.  After the fire, Nero avoided the initial
inclination to blame the blaze on the Jews. 
Instead, he targeted the nascent Christian sect which had recently
become act…

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…