June 3

350:  Roman usurper
Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor,
entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. The Constantinian Dynasty
took its name from its most famous member, Constantine I, the Empe…

June 2 

876 BCE (28 Iyar
2884): This is the traditional date of death of Samuel, prophet and priest
(born 2832).

455:  The Vandals
entered Rome and plundered the city.  Among the treasures they took with
them were the spoils of the Se…

June 1

987: Hugh
Capet was elected King of France making him the first of the Capetians.  During this period, power lay with the nobles
and the leaders of the Church.  Among
other things this meant that the kings were unable to do anything t…

June 1

987: Hugh
Capet was elected King of France making him the first of the Capetians.  During this period, power lay with the nobles
and the leaders of the Church.  Among
other things this meant that the kings were unable to do anything t…

May 29

363: A good
day for the Romans and bad day for the Jews. Roman Emperor Julian defeats the
Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid
capital, but is impossible to conquer it. But Julian is killed at the end of
the…

May 26

1096(1st of
Sivan): The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Neuss, Germany

1135:  Alfonso VII of León and Castile was crowned
in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator
totius Hispaniae, “Emperor of all of Spain”. At the start of his
reign, he cur…

 May 251085: Pope Gregory VI passed away.  Gregory opposed Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor who saw himself as a protector of the Jews.  Henry contended that the Jews, regardless of where they lived, were his subjects. &nb…