September 28 

48
B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
after landing in Egypt.  While many Roman
leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at a very low
level.  He was the Roma…

September 27

0070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were
battered down by the Roman army

1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son
Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of Plowce.  From a military point of view the bat…

September 26

1087:
Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of
William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews
that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody
frenzy the preceded the de…

September 25

275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus was appointed Roman emperor by the
senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the
pleasure of the Army.  In the case of
Tacitus, that meant a mere six months. 
One of the …

September
24

15: Birthdate of Vitellius, the second of the four emperors
who “ruled” during 69 which created the chaos that Vespasian sought to show was
a thing of the passed when he had Titus destroy the Second Temple and destroy
much Eretz I…