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Babylon destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, and captured Judea and 10,000 Jewish families.
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Roman Emperor Tiberius expels Jews from Rome. Expulsion is reported by the Roman historical writers Suetonius, Josephus, and Cassius Dio.
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A mob in Oberwesel, Germany kills 40 Jewish men, women and children after a ritual murder accusatio.
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600 Jews burned at the stake, 140 children forcibly baptized, the remaining city's Jews expelled. The city synagogue is turned into a church and the Jewish cemetery is destroyed.
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Expulsion from Sicily: approx. 37,000.
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Martin Luther leads Protestant Reformation and challenges the doctrine of Servitus Judaeorum "... to deal kindly with the Jews and to instruct them to come over to us". 21 February. All Jews expelled from Ratisbon/Regensburg.
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Russian troops take Polotsk from Lithuania, Jews are given ultimatum: embrace Russian Orthodox Church or die. Around 300 Jewish men, women and children were thrown into ice holes of Dvina river.
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Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.
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Cossack troops under the command of Colonels Cherkovsky, Kurovsky and Shliatoshenko murdered 4000 Jews.
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Outbreak of antisemitism in United States, led by Ku Klux Klan
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About 6 million Jews were killed, including about 1 million children, systematically by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers.
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Gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium, killing four people. Three people died at the scene; a fourth was taken to the hospital and died at a later date 6 June.
