Pope refuses to allow Jews of Cordova, Spain to build a shul, 1250
Pope granted liberal privileges to Jews of Rome, 1402.
Sinking of the Titanic, 1912.
British army liberated Belsen camp and its 40,000 inmates, 1945.
Po’al ha-Mizrachi, the religious Zionist labor movement, founded, 1922.
All civic limitations imposed on Jews of the German Empire were lifted, 1871. It may be said to have brought medieval anti-Semitism to a conclusion. Ten years later, almost to the day, Germany opened the new epoch of modern anti-Semitism (Nisan 26). The cycle is completed by the anniversary of the opening of the Eichmann trial.
Prussian Frederick the Great imposed oppressive restrictions upon Jews, 1750. His anti-Jewish policies foreshadowed the survival of anti-Semitism in the age of “Enlightenment”.
3000 Jews of Prague were massacred, 1389.
Belgium Jewish underground aided by Christian railroad men derailed a train with Jewish deportees bound for the extermination camps, several hundred Jews were saved, 1943.
Anti-Jewish violence broke out in Budapest, Hungary, 1848.
The Polish army occupied Vilna and attacked its Jewish community, 1919.
Massacre of Marranos of Lisbon, 1506.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Eretz Yisrael, 1936.
Napoleon “promised” the Jews of Eretz Yisrael the “reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem”, coupled with a plea for their support, 1799. This was the first promise by a modern government to establish a Jewish state.
Adolf Hitler was born, 1889.
King Christian X of Denmark, attended the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Crystal Synagogue in Copenhagen to demonstrate his sympathy for the Jews, 1933.
Jews of Bavaria were granted equality, 1872.
The first Jewish settlers arrived in Amsterdam, Holland, 1593.