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
effort…

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 28

1320:
“Pope John XXII issues Bullarium Romanum, ordering that Jews who convert to
Christianity must be allowed to keep their property. The implication is that
Jews who don’t convert won’t necessarily have their property rights protected.”
(As …

JUNE 26

363:
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
According to various sources, Julian was a true Roman pagan who sought to roll
back the inr…

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 Ptolemies for the land
mass that included…