KATIE MAGNUS.
July 1886.
DATES OF CHIEF EVENTS AND CHIEF PEOPLE.
| B.C.E. | |
| Return from Babylon | 536 |
| Dedication of Second Temple | 516 |
| Institution of Purim | 473 |
| Judea under Egyptian rule | 320 |
| Simon I., the Just; high priest | 310 |
| The Septuagint translation made | 240 |
| Judea is conquered by Syria | 203 |
| Antiochus IV., Epiphanes, King of Syria | 175–163 |
| Institution of Hanucah | 164 |
| Judea an independent state | 141 |
| The Idumeans are conquered, and forced to accept Judaism | 120 |
| Judas Aristobulus, the first Jewish king | 106 |
| Civil war between the brothers Hyrcanus II. and Aristobulus | 70 |
| Pompey in Jerusalem | 63 |
| Herod I. becomes King of Judea | 37 |
| Hillel I. president of the Sanhedrin | 30 |
| The Temple rebuilt by Herod | 20 |
| C.E. | |
| Judea a Roman province | 7 |
| Origin of the Christian religion | 37 |
| Philo, Jewish philosopher in Alexandria | 40 |
| Fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple | 70 |
| Jochanan ben Zakkai establishes a college at Jamnia | 70 |
| The Pentateuch is translated into Chaldee by Onkelos, and the whole Bible into Greek by Akylos | 130 |
| The Jews rise under Barcochba against the Romans | 133–135 |
| Akiba dies | 135 |
| Compilation of the Mishnah by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi | 190 |
| Colleges founded in Babylonia by Rab and Samuel | 219 |
| The Jerusalem Talmud compiled | 320 |
| Hillel II. fixes the Jewish calendar (at present in use) | 360 |
| The Babylonian Talmud completed | 500 |
| A Jewish kingdom in Yemen | 500 |
| First Gaon in Sura, Mar Isaac | 658 |
| Origin of the vowel signs and accents in Hebrew | 650 |
| The Arabs conquer Spain | 711 |
| The Chazars embrace Judaism | 740 |
| Development of Karaism | 761 |
| Saadia of Fajum, philosopher and theologian | 892–942 |
| Foundation of colleges by Babylonian scholars in Western countries | 950 |
| Hai, the last of the Gaonim | 998–1038 |
| Solomon Gabirol | 1037–1070 |
| Rashi (Rabbi Solomon Yitschaki) | 1040–1105 |
| Beginning of the Crusades and of the persecutions of the Jews in Europe | 1096 |
| Moses ibn Ezra | 1070–1139 |
| Judah ha-Levi | 1085–1145 |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | 1092–1167 |
| Moses Maimonides | 1135–1204 |
| Benjamin of Tudela, traveller | 1165–1173 |
| Persecution of Jews in England under Richard I. | 1189 |
| The writings of Maimonides burnt at Paris | 1233 |
| The Jewish Parliament summoned by Henry III. | 1240 |
| Copies of the Talmud burnt at Paris | 1242 |
| Expulsion of Jews from England | 1290 |
| Jacob Asheri completes the religious code called the Four Turim | 1340 |
| Persecution of Jews in Europe in consequence of the Black Death | 1349 |
| Don Isaac Abarbanel | 1437–1509 |
| The first Hebrew books printed | 1475 |
| Inquisition against the Marannos | 1480 |
| Expulsion of the Jews from Spain | 1492 |
| Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal | 1497 |
| The first ghetto in Venice | 1516 |
| Reuchlin for the Talmud, Pfefferkorn against it | 1506–1516 |
| First complete edition of the Talmud printed | 1520 |
| Spanish Jews settle in Holland | 1591 |
| Manasseh ben Israel | 1604–1657 |
| Sabbatai Zevi | 1626–1676 |
| Baruch Spinoza | 1632–1677 |
| Slaughter of Jews in Poland by the Cossacks under Chmielnicki | 1648 |
| Manasseh ben Israel came to England | 1655 |
| First Portuguese synagogue in London | 1656 |
| First German synagogue in London | 1692 |
| Moses Mendelssohn born | 1729 |
| The edict of Joseph II., Emperor of Austria | 1782 |
| Moses Montefiore born | 1784 |
| Frederick William II. of Prussia abolishes the ‘Leibzoll’ | 1787 |
| The Jews in France emancipated | 1791 |
| Jews admitted to the freedom of the City of London | 1832 |
| The Jews’ civil disabilities in England removed | 1845 |
| Persecution of Jews in Damascus: Professor Theodore’s letter on same | 1840 |
| D. Salomons elected M.P. for Greenwich | 1851 |
| Jewish Oath Bill passed | 1858 |
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
B.C. 586 TO A.C. 70.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD.