Jewish Persecution | Timeline of Judaism | History of AntiSemitism
Lesser Known Highlights of Jewish International
Relations In The Common Era (an Abbreviated sampling)
DATE | PLACE | EVENT |
250 C.E. | Carthage | Expulsion |
224 C.E. | Italy | Forced Conversion |
325 C.E. | Jerusalem | Expulsion |
351 C.E | Persia | Book Burning |
357 C.E. | Italy | Property Confiscation |
379 C.E. | Milan | Synagogue Burning |
415 C.E. | Alexandria | Expulsion |
418 C.E. | Minorca | Forced Conversion |
469 C.E. | Ipahan | Holocaust |
489 C.E. | Antioch | Synagogue Burning |
506 C.E. | Daphne | Synagogue Burning |
519 C.E. | Ravenna | Synagogue Burning |
554 C.E. | Diocese of Clement (France) | Expulsion |
561 C.E. | Diocese of Uzes (France) | Expulsion |
582 C.E | Merovingia | Forced Conversion |
612 C.E. | Visigoth Spain | Expulsion |
628 C.E. | Byzantium | Forced Conversion |
629 C.E. | Merovingia | Forced Conversion |
633 C.E. | Toledo | Forced Conversion |
638 C.E. | Toledo | Stake Burnings |
642 C.E. | Visigothic Empire | Expulsion |
653 C.E. | Toledo | Expulsion |
681 C.E. | Spain | Forced Conversion |
693 C.E. | Toledo | Jews Enslaved |
722 C.E. | Byzantium | Judaism Outlawed |
855 C.E. | Italy | Expulsion |
876 C.E. | Sens | Expulsion |
897 C.E. | Narbonne | Land Confiscation |
945 C.E. | Venice | Ban on Sea Travel |
1009 C.E. | Orleans | Massacre |
1012 C.E. | Rouen, Limoges & Rome | Massacre |
1012 C.E. | Mayence | Expulsion |
1021 C.E. | Rome | Jews Burned Alive |
1063 C.E. | Spain | Massacre |
1095 C.E. | Lorraine | Massacre |
1096 C.E. | Northern France & Germany | 1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred |
1096 C.E. | Hungary | Massacre |
1096 C.E. | Ralisbon | Massacre |
1099 C.E. | Jerusalem | Jews Burned Alive |
1100 C.E. | Kiev | Pogrom |
1140 C.E. | Germany | Massacres |
1146 C.E. | Rhine Valley | Massacre |
1147 C.E. | Wurzburg | Massacre |
1147 C.E. | Belitz (Germany) | Jews Burned Alive |
1147 C.E. | Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France) | Massacres |
1171 C.E. | Blois | Stake Burnings |
1181 C.E. | France | Expulsion |
1181 C.E. | England | Property Confiscation |
1188 C.E. | London & York | Mob Attacks |
1190 C.E. | Norfolk | Jews Burned Alive |
1191 C.E. | Bray (France) | Jews Burned Alive |
1195 C.E. | France | Property Confiscation |
1209 C.E. | Beziers | Massacre |
1212 C.E. | Spain | Rioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo. |
1215 C.E. | 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. |
1215 C.E. | Toulouse (France) | Mass Arrests |
1218 C.E. | England | Jews Forced to Wear Badges |
1231 C.E. | Rome | Inquisition Established |
1236 C.E. | France | Forced Conversion/Massacre |
1239 C.E. | London | Massacre & Property Confiscation |
1240 C.E. | Austria | Property confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned. |
1240 C.E. | France | Talmud Confiscated |
1240 C.E. | England | Book Burning |
1240 C.E. | Spain | Forced Conversion |
1242 C.E. | Paris | Talmud Burned |
1244 C.E. | Oxford | Mob Attacks |
1255 C.E. | England | Blood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings. |
1261 C.E. | Canterbury | Mob Attacks |
1262 C.E. | London | Mob Attacks |
1264 C.E. | London | Mob Attacks |
1264 C.E. | Germany | Council of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a "pointed dunce cap." Thousands murdered. |
1267 C.E. | Vienna | Jews Forced to Wear Horned Hats |
1270 C.E. | Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and Erfurt | Jews Burned Alive |
1270 C.E. | England | The libel of the "counterfeit coins" - all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung. |
1276 C.E. | Bavaria | Expulsion |
1278 C.E. | Genoa (Spain) | Mob Attacks |
1279 C.E. | 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 C.E. | Mayence & Bacharach | Mob Attacks |
1285 C.E. | Munich | Jews Burned Alive |
1290 C.E. | England | King Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. Many drowned. |
1291 C.E. | France | The Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France. |
1292 C.E. | Italy | Forced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community. |
1298 C.E. | Germany | The libel of the "Desecrated Host" is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion. |
1298 C.E. | Franconia, Bavaria & Austria | Reindfel's Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period. |
1306 C.E. | France | Expulsion |
1308 C.E. | Strasbourg | Jews Burned Alive |
1320 C.E. | Toulouse & Perpigon | 120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned |
1321 C.E. | Teruel | Public Executions |
1328 C.E. | Estella | 5,000 Jews Slaughtered |
1348 C.E. | France & Spain | Jews Burned Alive |
1348 C.E. | Switzerland | Expulsion |
1349 C.E. | Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & Swabia | Jews Burned Alive |
1349 C.E. | Heilbronn (Germany) | Expulsion |
1349 C.E. | Hungary | Expulsion |
1354 C.E. | Castile (Spain) | 12,000 Jews Slaughtered |
1368 C.E. | Toledo | 8,000 Jews Slaughtered |
1370 C.E. | Majorca., Penignon & Barcelona | Mob Attack |
1377 C.E. | Huesca (Spain) | Jews Burned Alive |
1380 C.E. | Paris | Mob Attack |
1384 C.E. | Nordlingen | Mass Murder |
1388 C.E. | Strasbourg | Expulsion |
1389 C.E. | Prague | Mass Slaughter & Book Burning |
1391 C.E. | Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & Barcelona | Forced Conversions & Mass Murder |
1394 C.E. | Germany | Expulsion |
1394 C.E. | France | Expulsion |
1399 C.E. | Posen (Poland) | Jews Burned Alive |
1400 C.E. | Prague | Stake Burnings |
1407 C.E. | Cracow | Mob Attack |
1415 C.E. | Rome | Talmud Confiscated |
1422 C.E. | Austria | Jews Burned Alive |
1422 C.E. | Austria | Expulsion |
1424 C.E. | Fribourg & Zurich | Expulsion |
1426 C.E. | Cologne | Expulsion |
1431 C.E. | Southern Germany | Jews Burned Alive |
1432 C.E. | Savory | Expulsion |
1438 C.E. | Mainz | Expulsion |
1439 C.E. | Augsburg | Expulsion |
1449 C.E. | Toledo | Public Torture &. Burnings |
1456 C.E. | Bavaria | Expulsion |
1453 C.E. | Franconia | Expulsion |
1453 C.E. | Breslau | Expulsion |
1454 C.E. | Wurzburg | Expulsion |
1463 C.E. | Cracow | Mob Attack |
1473 C.E. | Andalusia | Mob Attack |
1480 C.E. | Venice | Jews Burned Alive |
1481 C.E. | Seville | Stake Burnings |
1484 C.E. | Cuidad Real, Guadalupe, Saragossa & Teruel | Jews Burned Alive |
1485 C.E. | Vincenza (Italy) | Expulsion |
1486 C.E. | Toledo | Jews Burned Alive |
1488 C.E. | Toledo | Stake Burnings |
1490 C.E. | Toledo | Public Executions |
1491 C.E. | Astorga | Public Torture & Execution |
1492 C.E. | Spain | Expulsion |
1495 C.E. | Lithuania | Expulsion |
1497 C.E. | Portugal | Expulsion |
1499 C.E. | Germany | Expulsion |
1506 C.E. | Lisbon | Mob Attack |
1510 C.E. | Berlin | Public Torture & Execution |
1514 C.E. | Strasbourg | Expulsion |
1519 C.E. | Regensburg | Expulsion |
1539 C.E. | Cracow & Portugal | Stake Burnings |
1540 C.E. | Naples | Expulsion |
1542 C.E. | Bohemia | Expulsion |
1550 C.E. | Genoa | Expulsion |
1551 C.E. | Bavaria | Expulsion |
1555 C.E. | Pesaro | Expulsion |
1556 C.E. | Sokhachev (Poland) | Public Torture & Execution |
1559 C.E. | Austria | Expulsion |
1561 C.E. | Prague | Expulsion |
1567 C.E. | Wurzburg | Expulsion |
1569 C.E. | Papal States | Expulsion |
1571 C.E. | Brandenburg | Expulsion |
1582 C.E. | Netherlands | Expulsion |
1593 C.E. | Brunswick | Expulsion |
1597 C.E. | Cremona, Pavia & Lodi | Expulsion |
1614 C.E. | Frankfort | Expulsion |
1615 C.E. | Worms | Expulsion |
1619 C.E. | Kiev | Expulsion |
1635 C.E. | Vilna | Mob Attack |
1637 C.E. | Cracow | Public Torture & Execution |
1647 C.E. | Lisbon | Jews Burned Alive |
1648 C.E. | Poland | 1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered |
1649 C.E. | Ukraine | Expulsion |
1649 C.E. | Hamburg | Expulsion |
1652 C.E. | Lisbon | Stake Burnings |
1654 C.E. | Little Russia | Expulsion |
1656 C.E. | Lithuania | Expulsion |
1660 C.E. | Seville | Jews Burned Alive |
1663 C.E | Cracow | Public Torture &. Execution |
1664 C.E. | Lemberg | Mob Attack |
1669 C.E. | Oran (North Africa) | Expulsion |
1670 C.E. | Vienna | Expulsion |
1671 C.E. | Minsk | Mob Attacks |
1681 C.E. | Vilna | Mob Attacks |
1682 C.E. | Cracow | Mob Attacks |
1687 C.E. | Posen | Mob Attacks |
1712 C.E. | Sandomir | Expulsion |
1727 C.E. | Russia | Expulsion |
1738 C.E. | Wurtemburg | Expulsion |
1740 C.E. | Liule Russia | Expulsion |
1744 C.E | Bohemia | Expulsion |
1744 C.E. | Livonia | Expulsion |
1745 C.E. | Moravia | Expulsion |
1753 C.E. | Kovad (Lithuania) | Expulsion |
1757 C.E. | Kamenetz | Talmud Burning |
1761 C.E. | Bordeaux | Expulsion |
1768 C.E. | Kiev | 3,000 Jews Slaughtered |
1772 C.E. | Russia | Expulsion |
1775 C.E. | Warsaw | Expulsion |
1789 C.E. | Alsace | Expulsion |
1801 C.E. | Bucharest | Mob Attack |
1804 C.E. | Russian Villages | Expulsion |
1808 C.E. | Russian Countryside | Expulsion |
1815 C.E. | Lubeck & Bremen | Expulsion |
1820 C.E. | Bremes | Expulsion |
1843 C.E. | Austria & Prussia | Expulsion |
1850 C.E. | New York City | 500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue |
1862 C.E. | Area under General Grant's Jurisdiction in the United States | Expulsion |
1866 C.E | Galatz (Romania) | Expulsion |
1871 C.E. | Odena | Mob Attack |
1887 C.E. | Slovakia | Mob Attacks |
1897 C.E. | Kantakuzenka (Russia) | Mob Attacks |
1898 C.E. | Rennes (France) | Mob Attack |
1899 C.E. | Nicholayev | Mob Attack |
1900 C.E. | Konitz (Prussia) | Mob Attack |
1902 C.E. | Poland | Widespread Pogroms |
1904 C.E. | Manchuria, Kiev & Volhynia | Widespread Pogroms |
1905 C.E. | Zhitomir (Yolhynia) | Mob Attacks |
1919 C.E | Bavaria | Expulsion |
1915 C.E. | Georgia (U.S.A.) | Leo Frank Lynched |
1919 C.E. | Prague | Wide Spread Pogroms |
1920 C.E. | Munich & Breslau | Mob Attacks |
1922 C.E. | Boston, MA | Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission |
1926 C.E. | Uzbekistan | Pogrom |
1928 C.E. | Hungary | Widespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses |
1929 C.E. | Lemberg (Poland) | Mob Attacks |
1930 C.E. | Berlin | Mob Attack |
1933 C.E. | Bucharest | Mob Attacks |
1938-45 C.E. | Europe | Holocaust |
Jewish persecution source:
P.E. Grosser & E.G. Halperin, Anti-Semitism: Causes and Effects, New York: Philosophical Library, 1978
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