Today in Jewish History (Part 2)
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Historical Events
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1492-08-02 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1492-08-03 - All Jews are expelled from Spain
1492-10-24 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1492-11-15 - In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1492-12-31 - 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1493-01-12 - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
1496-03-09 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1496-03-12 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1496-12-05 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
1497-01-06 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1498-06-21 - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1505-04-20 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1510-01-22 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1510-07-19 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1515-01-01 - Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
1516-04-10 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1521-11-20 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1524-12-12 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1526-11-09 - Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
1529-05-27 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1539-02-19 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1549-07-17 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1550-04-02 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1553-08-12 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
1556-04-13 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1558-08-04 - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1559-04-02 - Genoa Italy, expels Jews
1559-06-22 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted
1563-04-30 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1563-08-30 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1567-06-15 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1567-06-20 - Don Henrique of Brazil, expel Jews
1567-06-20 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1570-01-04 - Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"
1598-01-08 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1598-01-08 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1614-08-22 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1614-09-01 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1645-04-07 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1648-06-24 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1648-07-22 - 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1648-11-02 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1654-04-26 - Jews are expelled from Brazil
1654-07-08 - 1st Jewish colonist arrive in US (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1654-08-22 - 1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
1655-04-26 - Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1655-07-27 - Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655-08-28 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1655-10-15 - Jews of Lublin are massacred
1656-01-24 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1656-02-22 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1656-03-13 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1668-10-23 - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1670-02-14 - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1670-02-27 - Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1670-07-25 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670-07-25 - Vienna Austria expels Jews
1675-08-10 - Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
1683-09-24 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1685-12-03 - Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
1695-09-12 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
1699-03-04 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1712-10-04 - Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1716-07-18 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1727-05-07 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1727-11-15 - NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1730-04-08 - 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1732-09-02 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1738-12-09 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1739-09-01 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1740-02-03 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1740-07-11 - Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews
1740-07-11 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1742-12-01 - Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1744-11-25 - Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1745-03-31 - Jews are expelled from Prague
1748-03-19 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1750-09-05 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
1751-09-12 - Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1753-07-07 - English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1760-10-23 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1774-06-11 - Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1774-12-18 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia
1775-01-11 - Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1775-01-22 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1775-02-22 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1783-03-05 - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1784-05-25 - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787-08-17 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1791-03-04 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1794-06-23 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1796-09-02 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1796-09-05 - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1797-08-03 - Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
1798-01-01 - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
1798-03-04 - Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1798-06-07 - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1799-04-14 - Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1799-04-20 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1801-03-03 - 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
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