December 21 69: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four individuals - Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian – held the position of imperial leadership. &nbs... »
December 19 324: Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor leaving Constatine I, “the first Christian Emperor” in control of the Roman Empire much to the detriment of the Jewish people. 1154: Coronation of Henry II, King of England. With the restora... »
December 17 520 BCE (24th of Kislev): “The foundation-stone of the Temple was laid” (As reported by Jewish Encyclopedia) http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4902-darius-i 630: Modestus of Jerusalem who replaced Zacharias as Greek Orthodox Pat... »
December 10 925: Sancho I to whom the Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III sent his Jewish physician Hasdai ibn Shaprut so he could “cure” his wife passed away today. 1475: Seventy-eight-year-old Italian artist Paolo Uccello passed away. Like many artists of his... »