July 9
118:
Hadrian, Rome’s new emperor, made his entry into the Imperial City. Regardless
of how history remembers him, for Jews, Hadrian is the Emperor who helped to
start the Third Rebellion against Rome. In this case it was the lead by Bar
Kochba …
July 7
1274: Pope
Gregory X confirmed a bull issued in 1272 banning charges of blood ritual.
1307: King
Edward I, the monarch who expelled the Jews from England, died.
1320: In
Pastoureaux (Southern France), an unnamed shepherd started a crusade aga…
July 2
311:
Miltiades began serving as Bishop of Rome (Pope) during the reign of
Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor who moved against the Jews in his
effor…
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…
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