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... »