The Persecution of Jews (Pre-World War I)

By mgallner
  • Period: 400 to Dec 31, 1399

    Timespan 1

  • Sep 3, 1033

    Fes, Morocco

    6000 killed. (Exact date unknown)
    More massacres in Fes in 1276, 1465.
  • Dec 30, 1066

    Granada Massacre

    "More than 1500 Jewish families, numbering 4000 persons, fell in one day." - 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
  • Sep 3, 1096

    Beginning of First Crusade

  • Period: Sep 3, 1096 to Sep 3, 1272

    The Crusades

  • Sep 3, 1099

    End of First Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1145

    Beginning of Second Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1149

    End of Second Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1189

    Beginning of Third Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1192

    End of Third Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1202

    Beginning of Fourth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1204

    End of Fourth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1213

    Beginning of Fifth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1221

    End of Fifth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1228

    Beginning of Sixth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1229

    End of Sixth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1248

    Beginning of Seventh Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1254

    End of Seventh Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1270

    Eighth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1271

    Beginning of Ninth Crusade

  • Sep 3, 1272

    End of Ninth Crusade

  • Jul 6, 1348

    Black Death Scapegoats

    Accused of deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jews destroyed by violence. 900 Jews burned alive.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    TImespan 2

  • Nov 1, 1478

    Beginning of Spanish Inquisition

    Ordered Jews to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. Approximately half of Spain's 80000-person Jewish population chose emigration over conversion.
  • Sep 3, 1540

    Prague

    All Jews banished from Prague in 1540.
  • Sep 3, 1557

    Prague

    Jews temporarily banished from Prague in 1557.
  • Sep 3, 1565

    Prague

    Jews temporarily banished from Prague in 1565.
  • Period: to

    Timespan 3

  • End of Spanish Inquisition

  • Papal States

    Sermons encouraged the conversion to Christianity until 1840.

  • Damascus Affair

    Many Jews accused of ritual murder in disappearance of an Italian monk and his servant, all found guilty.

  • Papal States

    Jews forced to live in separated neighborhoods called ghettos until 1870.

  • Dreyfus Affair

    French artillery officer Richard Dreyfus accused of treason, sentenced to life inprisonment. Evidence supporting Dreyfus's wrongful conviction found in 1896, but not released. Further accused of fabricating the exonerating evidence.

  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    First published in Russian Empire.