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…

November 21

456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): Ezra called together all the men of Judah
and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign-born
wives.  This was part of an attempt by
the returning exiles to purify and strength…

November 19

1095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending
the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the
darkest periods in Jewish history.  In
the name of Christianity, the Crusaders wo…