OCTOBER 5

610: Phocas, the
Byzantine Emperor during whose reign the Jews of Antioch revolted was murdered
by his successor Heraclitus.

610: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, an Armenian
Christian” during whose nine-year rule over Jerusalem “carried …

OCTOBER
4

610:  Heraclius attacked
Constantinople, overthrew the Byzantine Emperor Phocas Augustus and proclaimed
himself Emperor. The Christian Emperor attacked his Persian neighbors to the
east with disastrous results. In 614, the advancing Per…

OCTOBER 3

1189:
Coronation of Richard the Lionheart (King Richard I) of England. “All Jews and
women are barred from the coronation ceremony, but Jewish representatives are
sent anyway with gifts in an effort to curry favor with the new English king.
…

October 2

825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to tradition King
Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a
14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings 8:66). King David had
brought the Ark of the Covenant …

OCTOBER 1

2016 B.C.E.:  According to some the anniversary of the
Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date
is easily open to debate.  There is a general agreement among those who
accept the existence of Ab…