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…

July 14

1086:
Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away.  Born
in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his
reign, in 1079, Jews reportedly made their first appearance in the Emerald
Isle. “The Annals of Inisfallen record …

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 24

586
BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the walls
of Jerusalem and entered the City of David.

1182:
Phillip II, the seventeen-year-old French monarch “decreed the total expulsion
of Jews from all royal possess…

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 20

840: Louis the Pious,
King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of
Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed
in the footsteps of his father. During his reign charters were issu…