March 3 321: Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for honoring the sun as a day of rest. This was an attempt by...
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This Day, January 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 20 250: Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Decius reign came during a fifty-year period (235-285) that...
This Day, April 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 12 70(15th of Nissan, 3830): According to some, the date on the civil calendar when Pesach is observed for the last time before the...
This Day, April 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 26 121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and tumultuous.” 1198: Frederick I, Duke...
This Day, February 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 1682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in...
This Day, November 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
November 26 43 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius...
This Day, January 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 5 1209: At Winchester Castle King John of England and his wife Isabella gave birth to Richard, Earl of Cromwell “to whom Abraham of...
This Day, September 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 2 44 BCE: Cicero delivers the first of his fourteen Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next...
This Day, July 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 17 1203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital...