May
2

373:
“Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria…aggressive opponent of Arianism and polemicist
against Judaism died today.” 

693:
The Sixteenth Council of Toledo, which had opened on April 25, met for the last
time. Among its other accomplishments,…

May
2

373:
“Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria…aggressive opponent of Arianism and polemicist
against Judaism died today.” 

693:
The Sixteenth Council of Toledo, which had opened on April 25, met for the last
time. Among its other accomplishments,…

May 1

305:  Due to age and ill health and a desire to
provide stability for the Roman Empire Diocletian resigned as Emperor of
Rome.  Relatively speaking, Diocletian’s
reign was a positive period for the Jews. 
Diocletian was not overly…

April 29 

711: According to some sources the date on which an
army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslem
conquest of the Iberian Peninsula with all that would come to mean for the
Jewish population during the …

April 26

121: Birthdate of
Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and
tumultuous.”

1198: Frederick I, Duke
of Austria who employed a Jew named Schlom as his master of the mint, passed
away today.

1478: The Pazzi…

April 24

70:
During the Jewish rebellion against Rome, Roman legions broke through
Jerusalem’s middle wall but were driven back by the Jewish defenders. 

396:
As conditions for the Jews in the Roman Empire worsen, the Roman Emperors adopt
a law…

April
17

44: Birthdate of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of a Jewish father
named Juda, who was originally from the city of Bethlehem and who reigned for
thirteen years, six months and two days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nerva
and Trajan….