May 17

142
BCE: “Simon the Hasmonean captured the citadel of Jerusalem and expelled its
Syrian garrison and the Hellenized Jews” who had fought with them. Simon was
the last surviving Hasmonean brother. 
His victories completed the fight begun by…

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…

May 8

336:
Emperor Constantine prohibits Jews from negatively interacting with their
co-religionists who have converted to Christianity. 

336: In a further move to secure the primacy of
Christianity over Judaism Constantine decreed “If a Jew sho…

 May 6

1313
BCE (1 Iyar 2448): According to
tradition, this was the date of the first population survey of the Israelite
people taken by Moses.

124
CE: A Roman centurion named Valens stationed in the military camp which
bordered the date palm gr…