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1812 BCE Time of Abraham begins (Mesopotamian & Egyptian civilization in flower). The World of Abraham By understanding the character of Abraham, the "proto-Jew", one can understand what Jews are all about. Founder of Judaism Abraham gave rise to a nation of Hebrews—people who live "on the other side." The Promised Land God gave Abraham and his family the Land of Israel as a laboratory where his descendants are supposed to create the nation that’s the model for the world.
1712 BCE Time of Isaac begins
1652 BCE Time of Jacob begins, Isaac and His Sons History repeats itself. Whatever groove Abraham or Isaac or Jacob are going to carve, their descendants are going to get stuck in it.
1544 BCE Joseph sold into slavery, Joseph The story of Joseph demonstrates a classic historic pattern of the Jew in Diaspora. The Jew arrives impoverished, works hard despite deprivation, and rises to the top.
1522 BCE Josephwelcomes his family to Egypt, Reunion Joseph realizes that through the generations, the family has created a rut of hatred among the brothers. To remedy the situation, he sets the stage for a great test.
1428 BCE Israelites enslaved in Egypt
1392 BCE Time of Moses begins (Egyptian cities of Pithom & Ramses are built). Moses In an all-time irony of ironies, the savior of the Jewish people is raised in the house of the ultimate enemy of the Jews.
1312 BCE Exodus, The Ten Plagues Most miracles are natural phenomena with awesomely good timing. The Ten Plagues are a notable exception. Here the laws of nature are turned upside down to help free the Jews.
1312 BCE Torah given at Mount Sinai (Canaanites tribes occupy Promised Land), Mount Sinai The encounter between God and the Jews at Mount Sinai was a totally unique event in all of human history. The Golden Calf Only 1/10 of 1% of the Jews participated in worshipping the golden calf. Yet God’s reaction makes it clear he is blaming the whole nation. What’s going on here?
1272 BCE Conquest of Promised Land. The Tragedy of the Spies The spies story occurred on one of the most significant and tragic dates in Jewish history—the 9th of Av. Every major disaster in Jewish history is connected to this date. Joshua & the Conquest of the Promised Land This is no typical war of conquest replete with pillaging and murder. God has said, "If you follow My instructions all will go well."
1106 BCE Time of the Judges begins (Philistines occupy coastal area of Israel). The Time of the Judges The Jews had no king, but when they needed guidance they turned to "judges," who were both warriors and prophets.
879 BCE Saul (meaning: asked for one) anointed king. King Saul King Saul was a great man who committed one terrible mistake, dooming his reign from the start.
877 BCE Time of King David begins. David The Shepherd & The Warrior Still too young to fight in the army, David becomes Israel’s champion when he slays Goliath. David The King He established Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, choosing a place that Jacob called “the gate of heaven.”
836 BCE King Solomon begins his rule
825 BCE First Temple completed (Assyrian empire rising in the north) King Solomon's Temple. King Solomon, the wisest of all men, built the Temple in Jerusalem and reigned over Israel’s golden age.
796 BCE Israel split into two kingdoms. A Divided Nation In response to the king’s arrogance, the ten northern tribes secede, splitting Israel in two.
555 BCE Assyrians overturn northern Israel; Ten tribes are lost. Assyrian Conquest. The Assyrians, who conquer northern Israel, introduce a new way of dealing with vanquished nations. It’s called exile.
547 BCE Sennacherib attacks Jerusalem (Babylonians overrun Assyrian empire). The End of Israel Judah lasts another of 134 years before it, too, falls bringing to an end the kingdom of Israel.
422 BCE Babylonians conquer Israel & destroy Temple (Persians overrun Babylonian Empire). Babylonian Exile The Babylonians think God has abandoned the Jews and celebrate. But they have a surprise coming.
370 BCE Jews return from Babylonian exile
355 BCE Miracle of Purim, Purim in Persia Another feast celebrating God’s abandonment of Israel puts in motion a plot to annihilate the Jews.
352 BCE Construction of Second Temple begins. The First Temple, The Temple the Babylonians destroyed is rebuilt, but it is never the same – the Ark of the Covenant is missing.
347 BCE Time of the Great Assembly begins (Greeks overrun Persian Empire). The Great Assembly These extraordinary sages defined the essence of Judaism for the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora.
312 BCE Greeks conquer Israel. The Greek Empire: To the Greeks, what was beautiful was holy; to the Jews, what was holy was beautiful. These views were bound to clash.
245 BCE Torah is translated into Greek; Greeks persecute Jews. Greek Persecution Terror reigned—women who allowed their sons to be circumcised were killed with their babies tied around their necks.
175-164 BCE Rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanies a type and shadow of antichrist.
167 BCE Revolt of Maccabees begins
139 BCE Miracle of Chanukah (Romans overrun Greek Empire). The Revolt of the Maccabees The Jewish revolt against the Greeks sets a precedent in human history - it becomes the world’s first religious war.
63 BCE Romans invade Israel. The Romans Jewish tradition maintains the Romans were descendants of Esau, the red-haired and blood-thirsty brother of Jacob.
37 BCE Herod, the Great, begins his rule. Herod the Great A madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis, Herod was also the greatest builder in Jewish history.
32 BCE Time of Hillel & Shammai. Hillel and Shammai In a time when many things were going wrong for the Jews, Hillel and Shammai defined what was going right.
67 CE The Great Revolt of Jews against Rome begins. The Great Revolt In a seemingly suicidal move, Jews decided to take on the might of Rome.
70 CE Jerusalem conquered by the Romans, 17th of Tammuz. War For Jerusalem The Jewish nation fights to the death to save its spiritual center. Temple destroyed by the Romans, 9th of Av Destruction of the Temple On the saddest day in the Jewish calender, the 9th of Av, the Temple burns to the ground. Roman Army destroyed Jerusalem. Over 1 million Jews killed and 97,000 taken into slavery and captivity, many
others scattered.
120 -132 CE Rebellion of Bar Kochba. The Bar Kochba Revolt Despite the disastrous results of the Great Revolt, the Jews revolt again and again. The Bar Kochba Rebellion (Bar Kochba was a false Messiah), caused the deaths of 500,000 Jews; thousands were sold into slavery or taken into captivity. Judaism no longer recognized as a legal religion. Israel as a nation was totally destroyed. This was seen as a sign by many "Christians" that Israel had been rejected by her God, and that the Church was now “the New Israel.”
135 CE Serious Roman persecution of the Jews began. Jews were forbidden from practicing circumcision, reading the Torah, eating unleavened bread at Passover, etc.
136 CE Rabbi Akiva martyred. Exile The Romans sought to extinguish Jewish presence in Jerusalem by renaming it Aelia Capitolina, and by changing the name Israel to Palestine.
219 CE Mishna compiled by Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi. Talmud In a time of chaos, the rabbis decide that they must do the unprecedented—write down the Oral Law. Seeds of Christianity During a time of cruel oppression of the Jews, a number of splinter sects sprang up whose members believed that the Apocalypse was at hand.
224 CE Italy Forced Conversion of Jews
250 CE Carthage Expulsion of Jews
312 CE Constantine (next major type and shadow of antichrist) converts Roman Empire to "Christianity." From Paul to Constantine At first, Christianity was the most successful where people had been attracted to Judaism but were unwilling to take on all its precepts.
315 CE Constantine "the Great" published the Edict of Milan, which extended religious tolerance to Christians. Jews lost many rights with this edict.
325 CE Jerusalem Expulsion of Jews. The Council of Nicaea – the first edict in favor of the “Venerable Day of the Sun” (Sunday) was made at the Council. Sabbath worship and other Jewish observances became heretical to the "Christian" faith. Also, "Christianity" was now the official religion, and Jews could no longer have Roman citizenship.
351 CE Persia Book Burning
357 CE Italy Jewish Property Confiscation
379 CE Milan Synagogue Burning. Theodosius the Great permitted the destruction of synagogues if they served any type of religious purpose.
391 CE The Edict of Theodosius declared that Christianity was to be the only legal religion in the Roman Empire.
415 CE Alexandria Jewish Expulsion
418 CE Minorca Forced Conversion of Jews
469 CE Ipahan Holocaust of Jews
489 CE Antioch Synagogue Burning
506 CE Daphne Synagogue Burning
519 CE Ravenna Synagogue Burning
554 CE Diocese of Clement (France) Expulsion
561 CE Diocese of Uzes (France) Expulsion
582 CE Merovingia Forced Conversion
589 CE The Third Council of Toledo (in Spain) ordered that children born of marriage between Jews and Christians be baptized by force. A policy of forced conversion of all Jews was initiated. Thousands of Jews fl ed. Thousands of other Jews converted.
612-613 CE Visigoth Spain Expulsion; Very serious persecution began in Spain. Jews were given the options of either leaving Spain or converting to "Christianity." Jewish children over seven years of age were taken from their parents and given a Christian education.
628 CE Byzantium Forced Conversion
629 CE Merovingia Forced Conversion
633 CE Toledo Forced Conversion
638 CE Toledo Stake Burnings; Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. The Rise of Islam Mohammed reacted with anger when Jews refused to recognize him as the last of the prophets. The Jews of Babylon The oldest and most stable of Jewish communities was saved from the Christians by Muslims sweeping through the Middle East.
642 CE Visigothic Empire Expulsion
653 CE Toledo Expulsion
681 CE Spain Forced Conversion
693 CE Toledo Jews Enslaved
722 CE Byzantium Judaism Outlawed; In Constantinople, Jews were forced to convert to Christianity
855 CE Italy Expulsion
876 CE Sens Expulsion
897 CE Narbonne Land Confiscation
945 CE Venice Ban on Sea Travel
1009 CE Orleans Massacre
1012 CE Mayence Expulsion; Rouen, Limoges & Rome Massacre
1021 CE Rome Jews Burned Alive
1040 CE Time of Rashi begins
1063 CE Spain Massacre
1095 CE Lorraine Massacre
1096 CE Hungary Massacre; Northern France & Germany 1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred; Ralisbon Massacre; Time of Crusades begins. The Crusades The Crusaders came to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels" and woe to any Jews who stood in their way. Although the prime goal of the Crusades was to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, Jews were a second target. In Germany, in the cities along the Rhine River alone, 12,000 Jews were killed. This persecution and slaughter continued for eight additional Crusades until the year 1272.
1099 CE Jerusalem and Jews Burned Alive
1100 CE Kiev Pogrom
1121 CE Jews driven out of Flanders (now part of Belgium). They were neither to return nor to be tolerated until they repented of the guilt of killing Jesus Christ.
1130 CE The Jews of London had to pay compensation of one million marks for allegedly killing a sick man.
1135 CE Time of Maimonides begins. The Jews of Spain The land of opportunity for Jews—from the 8th to the 12th century—was Spain.
1140 CE Germany Massacres
1144 CE First Blood Libel. Blood Libel Nothing can rationally explain the extreme Christian accusations leveled against the Jews at this time claiming: "Jews killed babies and drank their blood!"
1146 CE Rhine Valley Massacre
1147 CE Belitz (Germany) Jews Burned Alive; Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France) Massacres; Wurzburg Massacre
1171 CE Blois Stake Burnings
1181 CE England Jewish Property Confiscation; France Expulsion -French King Philip banished the Jews from his domain. They were permitted to sell all movable possessions, but the permanent possessions, such as land and houses, reverted to the king.
1188 CE London & York Mob Attacks
1189 CE Jews were persecuted in England. The Crown claimed all Jewish possessions. Many homes belonging to Jewish families were burned.
1190 CE Norfolk Jews Burned Alive
1191 CE Bray (France) Jews Burned Alive
1195 CE France Jewish Property Confiscation
1209 CE Beziers Massacre
1212 CE Spain Rioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo.
1215 CE Rome, Lateran Council of Rome decrees that Jews must wear the "badge of shame" in all Christian countries. Jews are denied all public sector employment, and are burdened with extra taxes. Toulouse (France) Mass Arrests; At the IV Lateran Church Council, canon laws were passed requiring that “Jews and Muslims shall wear a special dress.” Later, it was decreed that they also had to wear an oval badge. This was to enable them to be easily distinguished from Christians. This practice later spread to other countries.
1218 CE England Jews Forced to Wear Badges
1229 CE The Spanish Inquisition begins.
1231 CE Rome Inquisition Established.
1236 CE France Forced Conversion/Massacre
1239 CE London Massacre & Property Confiscation
1240 CE Austria, Jewish Property confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned. England Book Burning. France Talmud Confiscated. Spain Forced Conversion of Jews.
1242 C E Paris Talmud Burned
1244 CE Oxford Mob Attacks
1252 CE Pope Innocent IV authorizes the use of torture by the Inquisitors against Jews and other apostates.
1255 CE England, Blood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings.
1261 CE Canterbury Mob Attacks
1262 CE London Mob Attacks
1263 CE The Great Disputation; time of Nachamanides
1264 CE Germany, Council of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a "pointed dunce cap." Thousands murdered. CE London Mob Attacks
1267 CE Vienna Jews Forced to Wear Horned Hats
1270 CE England The libel of the "counterfeit coins" - all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung. Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and Erfurt; Jews Burned Alive.
1276 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1278 CE Genoa (Spain) Mob Attacks
1279 CE Hungary & Poland, The Council of Offon denies Jews the right to all civic positions. The Jews of Hungary & Poland are forced to wear the "red badge of shame."
1283 CE Mayence & Bacharach Mob Attacks
1285 CE Munich Jews Burned Alive
1290 CE England King Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. 16,000 Jews were forced to leave the country. Many drowned.
1291 CE France The Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France.
1292 CE Italy Forced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community.
1298 CE Franconia, Bavaria & Austria; Reindfel's Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these 140 Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period. Germany, The libel of the "Desecrated Host" is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion.
1306 CE France Expulsion; 100,000 Jews are exiled from France. They left the country with only the clothes on their backs and food for one day.
1308 CE Strasbourg Jews Burned Alive
1320 CE Toulouse & Perpigon 120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned
1321 CE Teruel Public Executions
1328 CE Estella 5,000 Jews Slaughtered
1348 CE France & Spain Jews Burned Alive; Switzerland Expulsion; Black Plague, The Black Death Although the Europeans didn’t know what brought on the bubonic plague, they had no trouble naming the cause—it had to be the Jews! Jews were blamed for causing the Plague by poisoning wells. About 5,000 Jews were burned alive at the stake. In Bavaria alone, 12,000 Jews perished. Near Tours, an immense trench was dug, filled with blazing wood, and in a single day, 160 Jews were burned.
1349 CE Heilbronn (Germany) Expulsion; Hungary Expulsion; Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & Swabia; Jews Burned Alive
1354 CE Castile (Spain) 12,000 Jews Slaughtered
1368 CE Toledo 8,000 Jews Slaughtered
1370 CE Majorca., Penignon & Barcelona; Mob Attack
1377 CE Huesca (Spain) Jews Burned Alive
1380 CE Paris Mob Attack
1384 CE Nordlingen Mass Murder
1388 CE Strasbourg Expulsion
1389 CE Prague Mass Slaughter & Book Burning
1391 CE Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & Barcelona Forced Conversions & Mass Murder; Jewish persecutions begin in Seville and in 70 other Jewish communities throughout Spain. Jews were cruelly massacred and their bodies dismembered.
1394 CE France Expulsion (Jews were exiled, for the second time, from France). Germany Expulsion
1399 CE Posen (Poland) Jews Burned Alive
1400 CE Prague Stake Burnings
1407 CE Cracow Mob Attack
1415 CE Rome Talmud Confiscated
1422 CE Austria Expulsion; Austria Jews Burned Alive
1424 CE Fribourg & Zurich Expulsion
1426 CE Cologne Expulsion
1431 CE Southern Germany Jews Burned Alive
1432 CE Savory Expulsion
1434 CE Jewish men in Augsburg had to sew yellow buttons to their clothes. Jews were forced to wear a long undergarment, an overcoat with a yellow patch, bells, and tall pointed yellow hats with a large button.
1438 CE Mainz Expulsion
1439 CE Augsburg Expulsion
1449 CE Toledo Public Torture &. Burnings
1453 CE Breslau Expulsion; Franconia Expulsion. The Franciscan monk, Capistrano, persuaded the King of Poland to withdraw all rights of citizenship for Jewish People.
1454 CE Wurzburg Expulsion
1456 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1463 CE Cracow Mob Attack
1473 CE Andalusia Mob Attack
1478 CE The Inquisition begins. Spanish Jews had been heavily persecuted from the 14th Century. Many had converted to Christianity. The Spanish Inquisition was set up by the church in order to detect insincere conversions.
1480 CE Venice Jews Burned Alive
1481 CE Seville Stake Burnings
1484 CE Cuidad Real, Guadalupe, Saragossa & Teruel; Jews Burned Alive
1485 CE Vincenza (Italy) Expulsion
1486 CE Toledo Jews Burned Alive
1488 CE Toledo Stake Burnings
1490 CE Toledo Public Executions
1491 C E Astorga Public Torture & Execution
1492 CE Jews expelled from Spain; Columbus discovers America (Ottoman Empire takes over the Middle East) The Inquisition The basic accusation of the Inquisition was that Jews who converted to Christianity were still secretly Jewish. Jews were given the choice of being baptized as Christians or be banished from Spain. 300,000 left Spain penniless. Many migrated to Portugal and Turkey, where they were later tortured, imprisoned, and killed. Others converted to Christianity, but often continued to practice Judaism in secret. In the years that followed, countless numbers of Jewish People were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered simply because they were Jews. All this was done in the name of "Christ" and "Christianity."
1495 CE Lithuania Expulsion
1497 CE Portugal Expulsion. Jews were banished from Portugal. 20,000 Jews left the country rather than be baptized as Christians. Many others became slaves.
1499 CE Germany Expulsion
1506 CE Lisbon Mob Attack
1510 CE Berlin Public Torture & Execution
1514 CE Strasbourg Expulsion
1516 CE The Governor of the Republic of Venice decided that Jews would be allowed to live only in one area of the city. The area was called the “Ghetto Novo.”
1517 CE Protestant Reformation; time of Martin Luther. The Reformation and the Jews The Reformation exposed the corruption of the Church and brought about the advent of Protestantism. However, for the Jews it just meant more bad news.
1519 CE Regensburg Expulsion
1539 CE Cracow & Portugal Stake Burnings
1540 CE Naples Expulsion
1542 CE Bohemia Expulsion
1543 CE Martin Luther published a pamphlet entitled, On Jews and Their Lies. Europe was especially rife with anti-Jewish sentiment; Luther added fuel to the fire by asking the question, “What shall we do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews?” He recommended that houses of Jews be “razed and destroyed,” and their religious books burned. This pamphlet and his later anti-Semitic writings, “Annuls of the Jews,” paved the way theologically for Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.
1550 CE Genoa Expulsion
1551 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1555 CE Pesaro Expulsion
1556 CE Sokhachev (Poland) Public Torture & Execution
1559 CE Austria Expulsion
1561 CE Prague Expulsion
1567 CE Wurzburg Expulsion; Jews invited into Poland; The Jews of Poland King Boleslav of Poland invited the Jews, granting them unprecedented rights and privileges.
1569 CE Papal States Expulsion
1570 CE Time of the Ari & Kabbalists; The Kabbalists In the 16th century, the mountaintop town of Tzfat became the center of Jewish mysticism – the Kabbalah.
1571 CE Brandenburg Expulsion
1582 CE Netherlands Expulsion
1593 CE Brunswick Expulsion
1597 CE Cremona, Pavia & Lodi Expulsion
1614 CE Frankfort Expulsion
1615 CE Worms Expulsion
1619 CE Kiev Expulsion
1635 CE Vilna Mob Attack
1637 CE Cracow Public Torture & Execution
1647 CE Lisbon Jews Burned Alive
1648 CE Poland 1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered; Chmielnicki Massacres in Eastern Europe
1649 CE Hamburg Expulsion; Ukraine Expulsion
1651 CE Time of Shabbetai Tzvi, false messiah. The Kabbalists
1652 CE Lisbon Stake Burnings
1654 CE Little Russia Expulsion; First Jews arrive in America. Jews and the Founding of America The amazing story of Jewish influence on the founding of American democracy is a well-kept secret.
1656 CE Lithuania Expulsion
1660 CE Seville Jews Burned Alive
1663 CE Cracow Public Torture &. Execution
1664 CE Lemberg Mob Attack
1669 CE Oran (North Africa) Expulsion
1670 CE Vienna Expulsion
1671 CE Minsk Mob Attacks
1681 CE Vilna Mob Attacks
1682 CE Cracow Mob Attacks
1687 CE Posen Mob Attacks
1698 CE Time of the Ba’al Shem Tov begins; the Hassidic Movement
1712 CE Sandomir Expulsion
1727 CE Russia Expulsion
1738 CE Wurtemburg Expulsion
1740 CE Liule Russia Expulsion
1744 CE Bohemia Expulsion; Livonia Expulsion
1745 CE Moravia Expulsion
1753 CE Kovad (Lithuania) Expulsion
1757 CE Kamenetz Talmud Burning
1761 CE Bordeaux Expulsion
1768 CE Kiev 3,000 Jews Slaughtered
1772 CE Russia Expulsion; Time of the Misnagdim & Vilna Goan (The "Enlightenment;" American Revolution; French Revolution). The Hassidic Movement Initially a movement of the poor and uneducated, Hassidism introduced Kabbalah and spirituality into everyday life.
1775 CE Warsaw Expulsion
1789 CE Alsace Expulsion
1791 CE Jews herded into Pale of Settlement in Russia. Pale of Settlement is a area of Russia where Jews were most oppressed, the Pale of Settlement gave rise to amazingly good things.
1794 CE Restriction of Jews in Russia, Jewish men were forced to serve 25 years in the Russian military. Many hundreds of thousands of Jews left Russia.
1801 CE Bucharest Mob Attack
1804 CE Russian Villages Expulsion
1808 CE Russian Countryside Expulsion
1810 CE Reform Movement begins in Germany. Reform Movement, The German Jews who founded the Reform Movement emphasized their loyalty to the "fatherland" in order to be accepted in mainstream German society.
1815 CE Lubeck & Bremen Expulsion
1820 CE Bremes Expulsion
1843 CE Austria & Prussia Expulsion
1846 CE All former restrictions against the Jews in the Vatican State were restored by Pope Pius IX.
1850 CE New York City 500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue
1862 CE Area under General Grant's Jurisdiction in the United States Expulsion
1866 CE Galatz (Romania) Expulsion
1871 CE Odena Mob Attack
1881 CE Jews made scapegoats for Czar of Russia. The Czars and the Jews In Czarist Russia, government-organized pogroms against the Jews kept the eyes of masses off the corrupt regime.
1882 CE first aliyah to Israel . Keys groups return to the Land of Israel.
1887 CE Slovakia Mob Attacks; Conservative Movement founded in America. Jewish Life in America Jews gained untold riches in America, but lost their heritage and spirituality.
1894 CE Dreyfus Affair in France. The Face of anti-Semitism Even in such civilized nation as France and the United States, anti-Semitism never died out.
1897 CE Kantakuzenka (Russia) Mob Attacks; First Zionist Congress (World War I; end of Ottoman Empire). Modern Zionism The First Zionist Conference, held in 1897, was a major event in the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
1898 CE Rennes (France) Mob Attack
1899 CE Nicholayev Mob Attack
1900 CE Konitz (Prussia) Mob Attack. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion appeared in print in Russia for the first time. The Protocols argued that a worldwide conspiracy existed among Jewish leaders to set Christian nations against one another and dominate the world. It circulated widely in Russia, Germany, France, and the United States and created widespread anti-Semitism.
1902 CE Poland Widespread Pogroms (Pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe).
1903 CE Renewed restrictions of Jews in Russia. Frequent pogroms (massacres) occurred against Jewish shtetls (ghettos) throughout Russia and Ukraine from 1903-1906. Jewish women were raped and beaten, thousands were massacred.
1904 CE Manchuria, Kiev & Volhynia Widespread Pogroms
1905 CE Zhitomir (Yolhynia) Mob Attacks
1915 CE Georgia (USA) Leo Frank Lynched. 600,000 Jews were forcibly moved from the western borders of Russia towards the interior. About 100,000 died of exposure or starvation.
1917 CE British Mandate begins in Palestine; Balfour Declaration
1919 CE Bavaria Expulsion; Prague Wide Spread Pogroms
1920 CE Munich & Breslau Mob Attacks. The defeat of Germany in World War I and the continuing economic difficulties were blamed in that country on the “Jewish influence.”
1922 CE Boston, MA Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission
1926 CE Uzbekistan Pogrom
1927 CE Country of Jordan created by the British on the East Bank of the Jordan River. The British Mandate The British promised to create a Jewish state. Instead they served their own Arab-linked interests as millions died in the Holocaust.
1928 CE Hungary Widespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses
1929 CE Lemberg (Poland) Mob Attacks
1930 CE Berlin Mob Attack
1933 CE Bucharest Mob Attacks; Hitler comes to power in Germany (World War II). Hitler rises to Chancellor of Germany. The Nazi era begins. Virulent anti-Semitic propaganda and the groundwork for Judenrein, “cleansed lf Jews,” begins. The Holocaust While Nazi Germany proceeded to systematically round up and execute Jews, the rest of the world closed its eyes and its doors.
1934 CE Various racial laws against the Jews were enacted in Germany to force Jews out of schools and professions.
1935 CE The Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws restricting citizenship to those of “German or related blood.” Jews became stateless.
1938 CE Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass” – November 9-10. Mobs attacked Jews killing and injuring hundreds. 2,000 synagogues burned; 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed; 30,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps. Hitler brought back century-old church law, ordering all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as identification. A few hundred thousand Jews are allowed to leave Germany after they turned over all of their assets to the government.
1939-1945 CE The Holocaust, the systematic extermination of Jews in Germany and Europe, begins. The process did not end until 1945 with the conclusion of World War II. Some six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were systematically exterminated simply because they were Jews -- Europe Holocaust.
1942 CE Final Solution formulated by the Nazis. The Final Solution Hitler was mindlessly focused on his goal: the elimination of all Jews from the planet.
1947 CE Partition of Palestine by the UN
1948 CE State of Israel declared The State of Israel After the British brutally turned away Holocaust survivors from Israel, the UN voted to partition the land. War of Independence
1964 CE PLO founded
1967 CE Six Day War and Reunification of Jerusalem. War Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been in a constant state of war and yet it has achieved great economic success.
*** 2007-2014 CE Anti-Semitism is again on the rise. In Europe (Germany, France, Denmark, and Russia) and in the USA (Chicago, Miami, Washington DC, and parts of Georgia, and New York) for example, anti-Semitic hate crimes are at an all time high since WWII. Jewish synagogues and cemeteries have been desecrated and Jews have been beaten and even murdered. The persecution is far from over. It is terrible to realize that most of the horrors inflicted on God’s Chosen People have been done in the name of "Christianity." Additionally because of recent tension in the Middle East with Iraq, Egypt, and Libya destabilizations, with Iran, with Hamas and the fighting in Gaza the world has grown increasingly intolerant of Israel as a nation and the Jewish people as a whole. All-the-while "Christians" in large part remain conspicuously silent. God is not a god of broken promises, He is a covenant keeper. He has a lasting covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's decedents -- all of Biblical Israel. Aren't we happy to be benefactors of that inheritance whether by birth or being grafted in by the authority of His Son, Yeshua our Messiah? Aren't we glad that God is not a god of broken promises? HalleluYah and Amen.
1712 BCE Time of Isaac begins
1652 BCE Time of Jacob begins, Isaac and His Sons History repeats itself. Whatever groove Abraham or Isaac or Jacob are going to carve, their descendants are going to get stuck in it.
1544 BCE Joseph sold into slavery, Joseph The story of Joseph demonstrates a classic historic pattern of the Jew in Diaspora. The Jew arrives impoverished, works hard despite deprivation, and rises to the top.
1522 BCE Josephwelcomes his family to Egypt, Reunion Joseph realizes that through the generations, the family has created a rut of hatred among the brothers. To remedy the situation, he sets the stage for a great test.
1428 BCE Israelites enslaved in Egypt
1392 BCE Time of Moses begins (Egyptian cities of Pithom & Ramses are built). Moses In an all-time irony of ironies, the savior of the Jewish people is raised in the house of the ultimate enemy of the Jews.
1312 BCE Exodus, The Ten Plagues Most miracles are natural phenomena with awesomely good timing. The Ten Plagues are a notable exception. Here the laws of nature are turned upside down to help free the Jews.
1312 BCE Torah given at Mount Sinai (Canaanites tribes occupy Promised Land), Mount Sinai The encounter between God and the Jews at Mount Sinai was a totally unique event in all of human history. The Golden Calf Only 1/10 of 1% of the Jews participated in worshipping the golden calf. Yet God’s reaction makes it clear he is blaming the whole nation. What’s going on here?
1272 BCE Conquest of Promised Land. The Tragedy of the Spies The spies story occurred on one of the most significant and tragic dates in Jewish history—the 9th of Av. Every major disaster in Jewish history is connected to this date. Joshua & the Conquest of the Promised Land This is no typical war of conquest replete with pillaging and murder. God has said, "If you follow My instructions all will go well."
1106 BCE Time of the Judges begins (Philistines occupy coastal area of Israel). The Time of the Judges The Jews had no king, but when they needed guidance they turned to "judges," who were both warriors and prophets.
879 BCE Saul (meaning: asked for one) anointed king. King Saul King Saul was a great man who committed one terrible mistake, dooming his reign from the start.
877 BCE Time of King David begins. David The Shepherd & The Warrior Still too young to fight in the army, David becomes Israel’s champion when he slays Goliath. David The King He established Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, choosing a place that Jacob called “the gate of heaven.”
836 BCE King Solomon begins his rule
825 BCE First Temple completed (Assyrian empire rising in the north) King Solomon's Temple. King Solomon, the wisest of all men, built the Temple in Jerusalem and reigned over Israel’s golden age.
796 BCE Israel split into two kingdoms. A Divided Nation In response to the king’s arrogance, the ten northern tribes secede, splitting Israel in two.
555 BCE Assyrians overturn northern Israel; Ten tribes are lost. Assyrian Conquest. The Assyrians, who conquer northern Israel, introduce a new way of dealing with vanquished nations. It’s called exile.
547 BCE Sennacherib attacks Jerusalem (Babylonians overrun Assyrian empire). The End of Israel Judah lasts another of 134 years before it, too, falls bringing to an end the kingdom of Israel.
422 BCE Babylonians conquer Israel & destroy Temple (Persians overrun Babylonian Empire). Babylonian Exile The Babylonians think God has abandoned the Jews and celebrate. But they have a surprise coming.
370 BCE Jews return from Babylonian exile
355 BCE Miracle of Purim, Purim in Persia Another feast celebrating God’s abandonment of Israel puts in motion a plot to annihilate the Jews.
352 BCE Construction of Second Temple begins. The First Temple, The Temple the Babylonians destroyed is rebuilt, but it is never the same – the Ark of the Covenant is missing.
347 BCE Time of the Great Assembly begins (Greeks overrun Persian Empire). The Great Assembly These extraordinary sages defined the essence of Judaism for the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora.
312 BCE Greeks conquer Israel. The Greek Empire: To the Greeks, what was beautiful was holy; to the Jews, what was holy was beautiful. These views were bound to clash.
245 BCE Torah is translated into Greek; Greeks persecute Jews. Greek Persecution Terror reigned—women who allowed their sons to be circumcised were killed with their babies tied around their necks.
175-164 BCE Rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanies a type and shadow of antichrist.
167 BCE Revolt of Maccabees begins
139 BCE Miracle of Chanukah (Romans overrun Greek Empire). The Revolt of the Maccabees The Jewish revolt against the Greeks sets a precedent in human history - it becomes the world’s first religious war.
63 BCE Romans invade Israel. The Romans Jewish tradition maintains the Romans were descendants of Esau, the red-haired and blood-thirsty brother of Jacob.
37 BCE Herod, the Great, begins his rule. Herod the Great A madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis, Herod was also the greatest builder in Jewish history.
32 BCE Time of Hillel & Shammai. Hillel and Shammai In a time when many things were going wrong for the Jews, Hillel and Shammai defined what was going right.
67 CE The Great Revolt of Jews against Rome begins. The Great Revolt In a seemingly suicidal move, Jews decided to take on the might of Rome.
70 CE Jerusalem conquered by the Romans, 17th of Tammuz. War For Jerusalem The Jewish nation fights to the death to save its spiritual center. Temple destroyed by the Romans, 9th of Av Destruction of the Temple On the saddest day in the Jewish calender, the 9th of Av, the Temple burns to the ground. Roman Army destroyed Jerusalem. Over 1 million Jews killed and 97,000 taken into slavery and captivity, many
others scattered.
120 -132 CE Rebellion of Bar Kochba. The Bar Kochba Revolt Despite the disastrous results of the Great Revolt, the Jews revolt again and again. The Bar Kochba Rebellion (Bar Kochba was a false Messiah), caused the deaths of 500,000 Jews; thousands were sold into slavery or taken into captivity. Judaism no longer recognized as a legal religion. Israel as a nation was totally destroyed. This was seen as a sign by many "Christians" that Israel had been rejected by her God, and that the Church was now “the New Israel.”
135 CE Serious Roman persecution of the Jews began. Jews were forbidden from practicing circumcision, reading the Torah, eating unleavened bread at Passover, etc.
136 CE Rabbi Akiva martyred. Exile The Romans sought to extinguish Jewish presence in Jerusalem by renaming it Aelia Capitolina, and by changing the name Israel to Palestine.
219 CE Mishna compiled by Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi. Talmud In a time of chaos, the rabbis decide that they must do the unprecedented—write down the Oral Law. Seeds of Christianity During a time of cruel oppression of the Jews, a number of splinter sects sprang up whose members believed that the Apocalypse was at hand.
224 CE Italy Forced Conversion of Jews
250 CE Carthage Expulsion of Jews
312 CE Constantine (next major type and shadow of antichrist) converts Roman Empire to "Christianity." From Paul to Constantine At first, Christianity was the most successful where people had been attracted to Judaism but were unwilling to take on all its precepts.
315 CE Constantine "the Great" published the Edict of Milan, which extended religious tolerance to Christians. Jews lost many rights with this edict.
325 CE Jerusalem Expulsion of Jews. The Council of Nicaea – the first edict in favor of the “Venerable Day of the Sun” (Sunday) was made at the Council. Sabbath worship and other Jewish observances became heretical to the "Christian" faith. Also, "Christianity" was now the official religion, and Jews could no longer have Roman citizenship.
351 CE Persia Book Burning
357 CE Italy Jewish Property Confiscation
379 CE Milan Synagogue Burning. Theodosius the Great permitted the destruction of synagogues if they served any type of religious purpose.
391 CE The Edict of Theodosius declared that Christianity was to be the only legal religion in the Roman Empire.
415 CE Alexandria Jewish Expulsion
418 CE Minorca Forced Conversion of Jews
469 CE Ipahan Holocaust of Jews
489 CE Antioch Synagogue Burning
506 CE Daphne Synagogue Burning
519 CE Ravenna Synagogue Burning
554 CE Diocese of Clement (France) Expulsion
561 CE Diocese of Uzes (France) Expulsion
582 CE Merovingia Forced Conversion
589 CE The Third Council of Toledo (in Spain) ordered that children born of marriage between Jews and Christians be baptized by force. A policy of forced conversion of all Jews was initiated. Thousands of Jews fl ed. Thousands of other Jews converted.
612-613 CE Visigoth Spain Expulsion; Very serious persecution began in Spain. Jews were given the options of either leaving Spain or converting to "Christianity." Jewish children over seven years of age were taken from their parents and given a Christian education.
628 CE Byzantium Forced Conversion
629 CE Merovingia Forced Conversion
633 CE Toledo Forced Conversion
638 CE Toledo Stake Burnings; Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. The Rise of Islam Mohammed reacted with anger when Jews refused to recognize him as the last of the prophets. The Jews of Babylon The oldest and most stable of Jewish communities was saved from the Christians by Muslims sweeping through the Middle East.
642 CE Visigothic Empire Expulsion
653 CE Toledo Expulsion
681 CE Spain Forced Conversion
693 CE Toledo Jews Enslaved
722 CE Byzantium Judaism Outlawed; In Constantinople, Jews were forced to convert to Christianity
855 CE Italy Expulsion
876 CE Sens Expulsion
897 CE Narbonne Land Confiscation
945 CE Venice Ban on Sea Travel
1009 CE Orleans Massacre
1012 CE Mayence Expulsion; Rouen, Limoges & Rome Massacre
1021 CE Rome Jews Burned Alive
1040 CE Time of Rashi begins
1063 CE Spain Massacre
1095 CE Lorraine Massacre
1096 CE Hungary Massacre; Northern France & Germany 1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred; Ralisbon Massacre; Time of Crusades begins. The Crusades The Crusaders came to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels" and woe to any Jews who stood in their way. Although the prime goal of the Crusades was to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, Jews were a second target. In Germany, in the cities along the Rhine River alone, 12,000 Jews were killed. This persecution and slaughter continued for eight additional Crusades until the year 1272.
1099 CE Jerusalem and Jews Burned Alive
1100 CE Kiev Pogrom
1121 CE Jews driven out of Flanders (now part of Belgium). They were neither to return nor to be tolerated until they repented of the guilt of killing Jesus Christ.
1130 CE The Jews of London had to pay compensation of one million marks for allegedly killing a sick man.
1135 CE Time of Maimonides begins. The Jews of Spain The land of opportunity for Jews—from the 8th to the 12th century—was Spain.
1140 CE Germany Massacres
1144 CE First Blood Libel. Blood Libel Nothing can rationally explain the extreme Christian accusations leveled against the Jews at this time claiming: "Jews killed babies and drank their blood!"
1146 CE Rhine Valley Massacre
1147 CE Belitz (Germany) Jews Burned Alive; Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France) Massacres; Wurzburg Massacre
1171 CE Blois Stake Burnings
1181 CE England Jewish Property Confiscation; France Expulsion -French King Philip banished the Jews from his domain. They were permitted to sell all movable possessions, but the permanent possessions, such as land and houses, reverted to the king.
1188 CE London & York Mob Attacks
1189 CE Jews were persecuted in England. The Crown claimed all Jewish possessions. Many homes belonging to Jewish families were burned.
1190 CE Norfolk Jews Burned Alive
1191 CE Bray (France) Jews Burned Alive
1195 CE France Jewish Property Confiscation
1209 CE Beziers Massacre
1212 CE Spain Rioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo.
1215 CE Rome, Lateran Council of Rome decrees that Jews must wear the "badge of shame" in all Christian countries. Jews are denied all public sector employment, and are burdened with extra taxes. Toulouse (France) Mass Arrests; At the IV Lateran Church Council, canon laws were passed requiring that “Jews and Muslims shall wear a special dress.” Later, it was decreed that they also had to wear an oval badge. This was to enable them to be easily distinguished from Christians. This practice later spread to other countries.
1218 CE England Jews Forced to Wear Badges
1229 CE The Spanish Inquisition begins.
1231 CE Rome Inquisition Established.
1236 CE France Forced Conversion/Massacre
1239 CE London Massacre & Property Confiscation
1240 CE Austria, Jewish Property confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned. England Book Burning. France Talmud Confiscated. Spain Forced Conversion of Jews.
1242 C E Paris Talmud Burned
1244 CE Oxford Mob Attacks
1252 CE Pope Innocent IV authorizes the use of torture by the Inquisitors against Jews and other apostates.
1255 CE England, Blood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings.
1261 CE Canterbury Mob Attacks
1262 CE London Mob Attacks
1263 CE The Great Disputation; time of Nachamanides
1264 CE Germany, Council of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a "pointed dunce cap." Thousands murdered. CE London Mob Attacks
1267 CE Vienna Jews Forced to Wear Horned Hats
1270 CE England The libel of the "counterfeit coins" - all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung. Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and Erfurt; Jews Burned Alive.
1276 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1278 CE Genoa (Spain) Mob Attacks
1279 CE Hungary & Poland, The Council of Offon denies Jews the right to all civic positions. The Jews of Hungary & Poland are forced to wear the "red badge of shame."
1283 CE Mayence & Bacharach Mob Attacks
1285 CE Munich Jews Burned Alive
1290 CE England King Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. 16,000 Jews were forced to leave the country. Many drowned.
1291 CE France The Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France.
1292 CE Italy Forced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community.
1298 CE Franconia, Bavaria & Austria; Reindfel's Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these 140 Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period. Germany, The libel of the "Desecrated Host" is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion.
1306 CE France Expulsion; 100,000 Jews are exiled from France. They left the country with only the clothes on their backs and food for one day.
1308 CE Strasbourg Jews Burned Alive
1320 CE Toulouse & Perpigon 120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned
1321 CE Teruel Public Executions
1328 CE Estella 5,000 Jews Slaughtered
1348 CE France & Spain Jews Burned Alive; Switzerland Expulsion; Black Plague, The Black Death Although the Europeans didn’t know what brought on the bubonic plague, they had no trouble naming the cause—it had to be the Jews! Jews were blamed for causing the Plague by poisoning wells. About 5,000 Jews were burned alive at the stake. In Bavaria alone, 12,000 Jews perished. Near Tours, an immense trench was dug, filled with blazing wood, and in a single day, 160 Jews were burned.
1349 CE Heilbronn (Germany) Expulsion; Hungary Expulsion; Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & Swabia; Jews Burned Alive
1354 CE Castile (Spain) 12,000 Jews Slaughtered
1368 CE Toledo 8,000 Jews Slaughtered
1370 CE Majorca., Penignon & Barcelona; Mob Attack
1377 CE Huesca (Spain) Jews Burned Alive
1380 CE Paris Mob Attack
1384 CE Nordlingen Mass Murder
1388 CE Strasbourg Expulsion
1389 CE Prague Mass Slaughter & Book Burning
1391 CE Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & Barcelona Forced Conversions & Mass Murder; Jewish persecutions begin in Seville and in 70 other Jewish communities throughout Spain. Jews were cruelly massacred and their bodies dismembered.
1394 CE France Expulsion (Jews were exiled, for the second time, from France). Germany Expulsion
1399 CE Posen (Poland) Jews Burned Alive
1400 CE Prague Stake Burnings
1407 CE Cracow Mob Attack
1415 CE Rome Talmud Confiscated
1422 CE Austria Expulsion; Austria Jews Burned Alive
1424 CE Fribourg & Zurich Expulsion
1426 CE Cologne Expulsion
1431 CE Southern Germany Jews Burned Alive
1432 CE Savory Expulsion
1434 CE Jewish men in Augsburg had to sew yellow buttons to their clothes. Jews were forced to wear a long undergarment, an overcoat with a yellow patch, bells, and tall pointed yellow hats with a large button.
1438 CE Mainz Expulsion
1439 CE Augsburg Expulsion
1449 CE Toledo Public Torture &. Burnings
1453 CE Breslau Expulsion; Franconia Expulsion. The Franciscan monk, Capistrano, persuaded the King of Poland to withdraw all rights of citizenship for Jewish People.
1454 CE Wurzburg Expulsion
1456 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1463 CE Cracow Mob Attack
1473 CE Andalusia Mob Attack
1478 CE The Inquisition begins. Spanish Jews had been heavily persecuted from the 14th Century. Many had converted to Christianity. The Spanish Inquisition was set up by the church in order to detect insincere conversions.
1480 CE Venice Jews Burned Alive
1481 CE Seville Stake Burnings
1484 CE Cuidad Real, Guadalupe, Saragossa & Teruel; Jews Burned Alive
1485 CE Vincenza (Italy) Expulsion
1486 CE Toledo Jews Burned Alive
1488 CE Toledo Stake Burnings
1490 CE Toledo Public Executions
1491 C E Astorga Public Torture & Execution
1492 CE Jews expelled from Spain; Columbus discovers America (Ottoman Empire takes over the Middle East) The Inquisition The basic accusation of the Inquisition was that Jews who converted to Christianity were still secretly Jewish. Jews were given the choice of being baptized as Christians or be banished from Spain. 300,000 left Spain penniless. Many migrated to Portugal and Turkey, where they were later tortured, imprisoned, and killed. Others converted to Christianity, but often continued to practice Judaism in secret. In the years that followed, countless numbers of Jewish People were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered simply because they were Jews. All this was done in the name of "Christ" and "Christianity."
1495 CE Lithuania Expulsion
1497 CE Portugal Expulsion. Jews were banished from Portugal. 20,000 Jews left the country rather than be baptized as Christians. Many others became slaves.
1499 CE Germany Expulsion
1506 CE Lisbon Mob Attack
1510 CE Berlin Public Torture & Execution
1514 CE Strasbourg Expulsion
1516 CE The Governor of the Republic of Venice decided that Jews would be allowed to live only in one area of the city. The area was called the “Ghetto Novo.”
1517 CE Protestant Reformation; time of Martin Luther. The Reformation and the Jews The Reformation exposed the corruption of the Church and brought about the advent of Protestantism. However, for the Jews it just meant more bad news.
1519 CE Regensburg Expulsion
1539 CE Cracow & Portugal Stake Burnings
1540 CE Naples Expulsion
1542 CE Bohemia Expulsion
1543 CE Martin Luther published a pamphlet entitled, On Jews and Their Lies. Europe was especially rife with anti-Jewish sentiment; Luther added fuel to the fire by asking the question, “What shall we do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews?” He recommended that houses of Jews be “razed and destroyed,” and their religious books burned. This pamphlet and his later anti-Semitic writings, “Annuls of the Jews,” paved the way theologically for Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.
1550 CE Genoa Expulsion
1551 CE Bavaria Expulsion
1555 CE Pesaro Expulsion
1556 CE Sokhachev (Poland) Public Torture & Execution
1559 CE Austria Expulsion
1561 CE Prague Expulsion
1567 CE Wurzburg Expulsion; Jews invited into Poland; The Jews of Poland King Boleslav of Poland invited the Jews, granting them unprecedented rights and privileges.
1569 CE Papal States Expulsion
1570 CE Time of the Ari & Kabbalists; The Kabbalists In the 16th century, the mountaintop town of Tzfat became the center of Jewish mysticism – the Kabbalah.
1571 CE Brandenburg Expulsion
1582 CE Netherlands Expulsion
1593 CE Brunswick Expulsion
1597 CE Cremona, Pavia & Lodi Expulsion
1614 CE Frankfort Expulsion
1615 CE Worms Expulsion
1619 CE Kiev Expulsion
1635 CE Vilna Mob Attack
1637 CE Cracow Public Torture & Execution
1647 CE Lisbon Jews Burned Alive
1648 CE Poland 1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered; Chmielnicki Massacres in Eastern Europe
1649 CE Hamburg Expulsion; Ukraine Expulsion
1651 CE Time of Shabbetai Tzvi, false messiah. The Kabbalists
1652 CE Lisbon Stake Burnings
1654 CE Little Russia Expulsion; First Jews arrive in America. Jews and the Founding of America The amazing story of Jewish influence on the founding of American democracy is a well-kept secret.
1656 CE Lithuania Expulsion
1660 CE Seville Jews Burned Alive
1663 CE Cracow Public Torture &. Execution
1664 CE Lemberg Mob Attack
1669 CE Oran (North Africa) Expulsion
1670 CE Vienna Expulsion
1671 CE Minsk Mob Attacks
1681 CE Vilna Mob Attacks
1682 CE Cracow Mob Attacks
1687 CE Posen Mob Attacks
1698 CE Time of the Ba’al Shem Tov begins; the Hassidic Movement
1712 CE Sandomir Expulsion
1727 CE Russia Expulsion
1738 CE Wurtemburg Expulsion
1740 CE Liule Russia Expulsion
1744 CE Bohemia Expulsion; Livonia Expulsion
1745 CE Moravia Expulsion
1753 CE Kovad (Lithuania) Expulsion
1757 CE Kamenetz Talmud Burning
1761 CE Bordeaux Expulsion
1768 CE Kiev 3,000 Jews Slaughtered
1772 CE Russia Expulsion; Time of the Misnagdim & Vilna Goan (The "Enlightenment;" American Revolution; French Revolution). The Hassidic Movement Initially a movement of the poor and uneducated, Hassidism introduced Kabbalah and spirituality into everyday life.
1775 CE Warsaw Expulsion
1789 CE Alsace Expulsion
1791 CE Jews herded into Pale of Settlement in Russia. Pale of Settlement is a area of Russia where Jews were most oppressed, the Pale of Settlement gave rise to amazingly good things.
1794 CE Restriction of Jews in Russia, Jewish men were forced to serve 25 years in the Russian military. Many hundreds of thousands of Jews left Russia.
1801 CE Bucharest Mob Attack
1804 CE Russian Villages Expulsion
1808 CE Russian Countryside Expulsion
1810 CE Reform Movement begins in Germany. Reform Movement, The German Jews who founded the Reform Movement emphasized their loyalty to the "fatherland" in order to be accepted in mainstream German society.
1815 CE Lubeck & Bremen Expulsion
1820 CE Bremes Expulsion
1843 CE Austria & Prussia Expulsion
1846 CE All former restrictions against the Jews in the Vatican State were restored by Pope Pius IX.
1850 CE New York City 500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue
1862 CE Area under General Grant's Jurisdiction in the United States Expulsion
1866 CE Galatz (Romania) Expulsion
1871 CE Odena Mob Attack
1881 CE Jews made scapegoats for Czar of Russia. The Czars and the Jews In Czarist Russia, government-organized pogroms against the Jews kept the eyes of masses off the corrupt regime.
1882 CE first aliyah to Israel . Keys groups return to the Land of Israel.
1887 CE Slovakia Mob Attacks; Conservative Movement founded in America. Jewish Life in America Jews gained untold riches in America, but lost their heritage and spirituality.
1894 CE Dreyfus Affair in France. The Face of anti-Semitism Even in such civilized nation as France and the United States, anti-Semitism never died out.
1897 CE Kantakuzenka (Russia) Mob Attacks; First Zionist Congress (World War I; end of Ottoman Empire). Modern Zionism The First Zionist Conference, held in 1897, was a major event in the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
1898 CE Rennes (France) Mob Attack
1899 CE Nicholayev Mob Attack
1900 CE Konitz (Prussia) Mob Attack. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion appeared in print in Russia for the first time. The Protocols argued that a worldwide conspiracy existed among Jewish leaders to set Christian nations against one another and dominate the world. It circulated widely in Russia, Germany, France, and the United States and created widespread anti-Semitism.
1902 CE Poland Widespread Pogroms (Pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe).
1903 CE Renewed restrictions of Jews in Russia. Frequent pogroms (massacres) occurred against Jewish shtetls (ghettos) throughout Russia and Ukraine from 1903-1906. Jewish women were raped and beaten, thousands were massacred.
1904 CE Manchuria, Kiev & Volhynia Widespread Pogroms
1905 CE Zhitomir (Yolhynia) Mob Attacks
1915 CE Georgia (USA) Leo Frank Lynched. 600,000 Jews were forcibly moved from the western borders of Russia towards the interior. About 100,000 died of exposure or starvation.
1917 CE British Mandate begins in Palestine; Balfour Declaration
1919 CE Bavaria Expulsion; Prague Wide Spread Pogroms
1920 CE Munich & Breslau Mob Attacks. The defeat of Germany in World War I and the continuing economic difficulties were blamed in that country on the “Jewish influence.”
1922 CE Boston, MA Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission
1926 CE Uzbekistan Pogrom
1927 CE Country of Jordan created by the British on the East Bank of the Jordan River. The British Mandate The British promised to create a Jewish state. Instead they served their own Arab-linked interests as millions died in the Holocaust.
1928 CE Hungary Widespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses
1929 CE Lemberg (Poland) Mob Attacks
1930 CE Berlin Mob Attack
1933 CE Bucharest Mob Attacks; Hitler comes to power in Germany (World War II). Hitler rises to Chancellor of Germany. The Nazi era begins. Virulent anti-Semitic propaganda and the groundwork for Judenrein, “cleansed lf Jews,” begins. The Holocaust While Nazi Germany proceeded to systematically round up and execute Jews, the rest of the world closed its eyes and its doors.
1934 CE Various racial laws against the Jews were enacted in Germany to force Jews out of schools and professions.
1935 CE The Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws restricting citizenship to those of “German or related blood.” Jews became stateless.
1938 CE Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass” – November 9-10. Mobs attacked Jews killing and injuring hundreds. 2,000 synagogues burned; 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed; 30,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps. Hitler brought back century-old church law, ordering all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as identification. A few hundred thousand Jews are allowed to leave Germany after they turned over all of their assets to the government.
1939-1945 CE The Holocaust, the systematic extermination of Jews in Germany and Europe, begins. The process did not end until 1945 with the conclusion of World War II. Some six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were systematically exterminated simply because they were Jews -- Europe Holocaust.
1942 CE Final Solution formulated by the Nazis. The Final Solution Hitler was mindlessly focused on his goal: the elimination of all Jews from the planet.
1947 CE Partition of Palestine by the UN
1948 CE State of Israel declared The State of Israel After the British brutally turned away Holocaust survivors from Israel, the UN voted to partition the land. War of Independence
1964 CE PLO founded
1967 CE Six Day War and Reunification of Jerusalem. War Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been in a constant state of war and yet it has achieved great economic success.
*** 2007-2014 CE Anti-Semitism is again on the rise. In Europe (Germany, France, Denmark, and Russia) and in the USA (Chicago, Miami, Washington DC, and parts of Georgia, and New York) for example, anti-Semitic hate crimes are at an all time high since WWII. Jewish synagogues and cemeteries have been desecrated and Jews have been beaten and even murdered. The persecution is far from over. It is terrible to realize that most of the horrors inflicted on God’s Chosen People have been done in the name of "Christianity." Additionally because of recent tension in the Middle East with Iraq, Egypt, and Libya destabilizations, with Iran, with Hamas and the fighting in Gaza the world has grown increasingly intolerant of Israel as a nation and the Jewish people as a whole. All-the-while "Christians" in large part remain conspicuously silent. God is not a god of broken promises, He is a covenant keeper. He has a lasting covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's decedents -- all of Biblical Israel. Aren't we happy to be benefactors of that inheritance whether by birth or being grafted in by the authority of His Son, Yeshua our Messiah? Aren't we glad that God is not a god of broken promises? HalleluYah and Amen.
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