April 14

69: Vitellius defeated
Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seized the throne and became the
third Emperor in what is known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Vitellius’
rise to power made the Roman populace very uneasy because it seeme…

April 13

1111: Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Henry gained
power by revolting against his father Henry IV. 
This was unfortunate for the Jews of Germany since Henry IV had been
protective of his Jewish subjects as can be seen by his enfor…

April
9

193: Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman
Emperor by the army in Illyricum.  Severus is the first emperor to ban
proselytizing by Jews.

423: Emperor Theodosius II reaffirms the Roman
law according to which “No Jew may purchase Christian…

 March 25

972: Sviatoslav I who had
conquered the Khazarian kingdom in 969 after which  the Khazar Jewish population may have
assimilated or migrated in part passed away today.

1144: It has been
suggested that the  relatives  of W…

March 24

809: Harun
al-Rashid (Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just), fifth caliph of the Abbasid
Empire who had issued a decree that Jews wear a yellow belt in 807, passed
away.

1244(18th of
Nisan): Rabbi Meir Abulafya Ha-Levi (Ramah) an opponent of Ma…