december

December 28 1235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau (located in modern Alsac) to confirm or disprove the charges. After hearing various exper…

December 25 0337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th.  496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the tribes of Gaul (France) under one ruler. His …

December 24 1166: King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine gave birth King John of England, the brother of Richard the Lionheart whom he followed to the throne in 1199 and who was such a rapacious monarch that the English nobles banned…

December 23962: Byzantine troops led by Nicephorus Phocas defeated Moslem forces and seized Aleppo.  This temporary turn of events could not have been good for the Jews who had been living there since Biblical times because it was the Moslem conqu…

December 22 69: Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. 244: Birthdate of Diocletian, the Roman Emperor who ordered all of his subjects to accept his divinity and offer sacrifices to him. He exempted the Jews from th…