May 1 305: Due to age and ill health and a desire to provide stability for the Roman Empire Diocletian resigned as Emperor of Rome. Relatively...
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This Day, May 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 11 330: Roman Emperor Constantine I changed the name of the ancient city of Byzantium to Nova Roma (New Rome) as it becomes the capital of the...
This Day, November 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 17 9CE: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor put down the Judean...
This Day, May 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 9 1457 BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The...
This Day, April 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 25 693: Opening session of the Sixteenth Council of Toledo which, before its close, would add more regulations that would prove oppressive to...
This Day, July 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 22 1099: During the First Crusade, in what has to be one of the most ironic moment of the Middle Ages, Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders...
This Day, April 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 29 711: According to some sources the date on which an army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslem...
This Day, December 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 8 65 BCE: Birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Roman poet known as Horace who created “credat Juadaeus Appella” which gave rise to...
This Day, January 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 12 1349: A letter sent today “from the city of council of Cologne…to the leaders of Strasbroug” warned that pogroms (attacks on the Jews)...