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…

December
9

1212:
In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the
Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that
the Jews were a separate ethnic and religious group and were not bound to the …

December 8

65 BCE: Birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Roman poet known as
Horace who created “credat Juadaeus Appella” which gave rise to the character
of “Jew Appela.”

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1629-apella

1292: John Peckha…

December 5

63
BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s
conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how
Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero said that Judaism was a barbarous
superstition who…

December 3

311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html

1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…

November
29

800: Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope
Leo III. Leo and Charlemagne were allies. 
Charlemagne would exonerate Leo of the charges and Leo would crown
Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.&nbs…

November 22

1220: Frederick II, who would become the
protector of the Jews in Frankfurt in 1236, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor
today by Honorius III.

1280:
The 3-year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose bull Vineam sorce
encouraged conversion through…