February
23

42(16th
of Adar, 3892): King Agrippa I began the construction of a gate for the of
Jerusalem (pg 128)

68(4th
of Adar, 3828): During the Great Revolt, Vespasian occupied the city of Gadara
as the legions made their slow, inexorable march t…

February
13

515 BCE (3rd of Adar, 3245): Completion of the
construction of the Second Temple at Jerusalem.

996: Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim who “ordered…Jews
to wear wooden calves around their necks” began his reign today.

1130: The Papacy of Honorius I…

January 28

 814:
Charlemagne passed away. The grandson of Charles Martel was one of the greatest
European rulers during the Dark Ages.  There was nothing Dark about his
treatment of the Jews.  For the most part, he ignored canon law and…

January 22

1167(23rd
of Shevat, 4927): Ibn-Ezra passed away at the age of 78 in Calahorra which was
on the border between Navarre and Aragon. There is no way that any entry could
do justice to this Sephardic writer, philosopher, scientist and most imp…

December 16

1316:
Öljaitü, the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Tabriz, Iran, whom the former
vizer Rashid-al-Din Hamadani the Jewish convert to Islam was found of guilty of
trying to poison, passed away today.

1431:
King Henry VI of England named Ki…