JUNE 12 816: Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away...
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This Day, December 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 11 321: A letter from Emperor Constantine the Great regarding special taxes of this date provides the first evidence of Jews along the...
This Day, July 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 14 1086: Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his reign, in 1079,...
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, September 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 9 337: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors dividing the Roman Empire between...
This Day, December 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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...
This Day, August 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
August 29 1255: The body of a little boy who had disappeared was found in a well at Lincoln. The boy would become known as Little Saint Hugh of...
This Day, May 24, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 24 1218: The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. The driving forces behind the crusade were two Popes who broke new ground in the mistreatment...
This Day, November 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 10 1217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of...