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Place in Czech Republic

What happened to the Jews in Bohemia

173 events, 1096 AD to 1952 AD

11th century

  1. 1096 AD Forced baptism of Jews in Bohemia · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1098 AD Duke strips emigrating Jews of their property · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  3. 1098 AD Robbery of reverted Jews leaving Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic

13th century

  1. 1290 AD Rindfleisch band attacks the Prague ghetto (1290) · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1298 AD Rindfleisch band attacks the Prague ghetto (1298) · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1298 AD Wenceslaus II extorts Bohemian Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic

14th century

  1. 1305 AD Ritual murder charges in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1314 AD Jews refused permission to settle new street near monastery · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  3. 1321 AD Seventy-five Jews burned at the stake in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1336 AD 53 Jews burned in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1336 AD Arrest of all Jews in Bohemia for ransom · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  6. 1336 AD Jews burned at Prague on blood libel accusation · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1336 AD John of Luxemburg plunders the synagogues · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  8. 1336 AD Prague synagogue torn down · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1337 AD Massacres of Jews in Čáslav and Jindřichův Hradec · Čáslav, Czech Republic
  10. 1338 AD Kouřim massacre after Host desecration libel · Kouřim, Czech Republic
  11. 1349–1350 AD Black Death massacre of the Jews of Eger · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  12. 1350 AD Charles IV absolves Eger citizens of the 1350 massacre · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  13. 1350 AD Massacre of the Jews of Cheb · Cheb, Czech Republic
  14. 1352 AD Jews barred from the former Jewish street in Cheb · Cheb, Czech Republic
  15. 1360 AD Treaty barring settlement of Jews who left Austria or Bohemia · Austria and elsewhere
  16. 1361 AD Charles IV cancels debts owed to Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  17. 1388 AD Massacres following ritual murder charge · Prague, Czech Republic
  18. 1389 AD Destruction of Prague Jewish cemetery and synagogues · Prague, Czech Republic
  19. 1389 AD Massacre following host desecration charge · Prague, Czech Republic
  20. 1390 AD Wenzel remits all debts due to the Jews of Eger · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  21. 1391 AD Well-poisoning charge against Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  22. 1399 AD Violence against Jews in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  23. 1400 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  24. c. 1400 AD Hussite-war slaughter of Jews in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia · Austria and elsewhere

15th century

  1. 1411 AD Cancellation of debts owed to Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  2. 1419 AD Restriction on pledges taken by Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  3. 1419–1437 AD Expulsion of Jews from Cheb and Jihlava · Cheb, Czech Republic
  4. 1419–1437 AD Hussites annihilate the Chomutov Jewish community · Chomutov, Czech Republic
  5. 1421 AD Plundering of the Prague ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1422 AD Massacre and pillaging of Jews in Bohemia (1422) · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  7. 1430 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Cheb by Sigismund · Cheb, Czech Republic
  8. 1430 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Eger · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  9. 1430 AD Synagogue converted into church and cemetery closed in Cheb · Cheb, Czech Republic
  10. 1434 AD Limited readmission of Jews to Eger · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  11. 1435 AD Jews permitted to return to Cheb · Cheb, Czech Republic
  12. 1448 AD Ghetto despoiled after Podiebrad takes Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  13. 1448 AD Massacre and pillaging of Jews in Bohemia (1448) · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  14. 1453 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Most · Most, Czech Republic
  15. 1463 AD Eger Jews placed under dominion of the city · Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic
  16. 1476 AD Massacre and pillaging of Jews in Bohemia (1476) · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  17. 1478 AD Destruction of the Judengarten cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic
  18. 1483 AD Ghetto of Prague despoiled · Prague, Czech Republic
  19. c. 1500–1599 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Pilsen · Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic

16th century

  1. 1502 AD Second expulsion of the Jews from Cheb · Cheb, Czech Republic
  2. 1503 AD Neustadt bars Jews and commerce is curtailed · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1504 AD Expulsion of Jews from Pilsen · Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic
  4. 1505 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Budweis · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  5. 1505 AD Ritual murder accusation and executions in Budweis · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  6. 1507 AD Altstadt council orders Jews to leave the ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1515 AD Interest limits and mandatory dress for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1522 AD Louis II repeals the expulsion decree · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  9. 1539 AD Jewish merchants barred from Ladislaus Hall · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1540 AD Special property tax on Jews under Ferdinand I · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  11. 1541 AD Banished · Prague, Czech Republic
  12. 1541 AD Charge of high treason and intriguing with the Turks · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  13. 1541 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia by Ferdinand I · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  14. 1541 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Kolín (1541) · Kolín, Czech Republic
  15. 1541 AD Kolin emigrants robbed at Braunau · Broumov (Braunau), Czech Republic
  16. 1541 AD Massacres after publication of the expulsion decree · Litoměřice, Czech Republic
  17. 1541 AD Pogrom in Roudnice · Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
  18. 1541–1571 AD Renewed enforcement of distinctive Jewish garb · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  19. 1547 AD Censorship of Jewish books begins · Prague, Czech Republic
  20. 1551 AD Bohemian Jews permitted to return · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  21. 1551 AD Yellow badge enforced on Bohemian Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  22. 1554 AD Jews readmitted to Prague for payment · Prague, Czech Republic
  23. 1557 AD Renewed expulsion from crown cities · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  24. 1557 AD Return of the Jews to Kolín (1557) · Kolín, Czech Republic
  25. 1557–1561 AD Kolin Jews allowed only one more year, then made to leave · Kolín, Czech Republic
  26. 1559 AD Seizure of Hebrew books in Prague for examination · Prague, Czech Republic
  27. 1559–1561 AD Second expulsion of Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  28. 1561 AD Compulsory Jesuit sermons for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  29. 1561 AD Ferdinand I decrees expulsion of Jews from Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  30. 1561 AD Second expulsion of the Jews from Kolín (1561) · Kolín, Czech Republic
  31. 1564 AD Maximilian II permits Jews to return to Kolin · Kolín, Czech Republic
  32. 1566 AD Maximilian bars future expulsion from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  33. 1568 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Kolin and Kuttenberg · Kolín, Czech Republic

17th century

  1. 1603 AD Kolin council restricts Jews' movement and trade · Kolín, Czech Republic
  2. 1610 AD Jews forced to abandon houses and cemetery for a monastery · Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
  3. 1613–1614 AD Plague accusation and walling up of Kolin Jews' street · Kolín, Czech Republic
  4. 1623 AD Wallenstein's public punishment of Jacob Thein · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1623–1630 AD Compulsory Jesuit conversion sermons · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  6. 1630 AD Compulsory attendance at Jesuit conversionist sermons · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  7. 1630 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons for Jews in Vienna and Prague · Vienna, Austria and elsewhere
  8. 1631 AD Saxon army burns the Roudnice ghetto · Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
  9. 1638–1639 AD New poll, war and army taxes on Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1650 AD Diet limits Jewish residence in Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  11. 1660 AD Well-poisoning accusation against Rabbi Borges and son · Kolín, Czech Republic
  12. 1667–1668 AD Expulsion of Jews without fixed business from Teplitz · Teplice (Teplitz), Czech Republic
  13. 1680 AD Prague ghetto destroyed by arsonists · Prague, Czech Republic
  14. 1689 AD Archbishop forbids Christians to shelter Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  15. 1689 AD Fire destroys Prague ghetto synagogues · Prague, Czech Republic
  16. 1689 AD Fleeing Jews plundered after ghetto fire · Prague, Czech Republic
  17. 1690 AD Jew forced to inscribe Tetragrammaton on Prague bridge cross · Prague, Czech Republic
  18. 1693 AD Emperor closes the Altschule synagogue · Prague, Czech Republic
  19. 1694 AD Desecration of body of father in Simon Abeles case, Prague · Prague, Czech Republic

18th century

  1. 1702 AD Prague ghetto walled off from the Altstadt · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1715 AD Confiscation of Jewish books · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  3. 1726 AD Familiants Laws · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  4. 1740–1780 AD Prague Jews required to wear yellow collars under Maria Theresa · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1742 AD Jewess hanged in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1744 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Sobědruhy · Sobědruhy, Czech Republic
  7. 1744 AD Croatians demolish the Altschule in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1744 AD Desecration of the Prague Jewish cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1744 AD Murder of Jews in Roudnice during Prague expulsion · Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
  10. 1744 AD Plunder of the Prague ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  11. 1744–1745 AD Maria Theresa orders expulsion of Jews from Bohemia and Moravia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  12. 1744–1748 AD Maria Theresa expels the Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  13. 1745–1746 AD Etrog tax imposed on Bohemian and Moravian Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  14. 1748 AD Limited readmission of Jewish families to Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  15. 1748 AD Tax of 204,000 gulden on the new Prague Jewish community · Prague, Czech Republic
  16. 1748–1760 AD Decrees on beards and yellow cloth badges for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  17. 1750 AD Fire in Prague ghetto burns town hall · Prague, Czech Republic
  18. 1776 AD Church ordinance limits Jews' stay in Liberec to weekdays · Liberec, Czech Republic
  19. 1781 AD Abolition of the compulsory white ruff in Teplitz · Teplice (Teplitz), Czech Republic
  20. 1785 AD Jewish physicians allowed to treat Christians · Prague, Czech Republic
  21. 1787 AD Joseph II orders closure of the Prague Jewish cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic
  22. 1797 AD Judensystemalpatent restricts Bohemian Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  23. 1799–1810 AD Jews evicted from private houses in Liberec · Liberec, Czech Republic

19th century

  1. 1841 AD Ban on Jewish land ownership waived in Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  2. 1841 AD Prague Jews barred from summering in Bubentsch · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1846 AD Abolition of the separate Jews' tax in Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  4. 1848 AD Anti-Jewish riots during the 1848 revolution · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1848 AD Ghetto walls disappear and Jews gain full liberty in Teplitz · Teplice (Teplitz), Czech Republic
  6. 1848 AD Jews forced out of the national guard in Kolín · Kolín, Czech Republic
  7. 1848 AD Jews permitted to resettle in Budweis · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  8. 1848 AD Jews permitted to resettle in Pilsen · Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic
  9. 1848–1849 AD Equality of citizens proclaimed; Prague Jewish community joins the city · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1849 AD Abolition of the Familianten Gesetz and imposts · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  11. 1849 AD Full civic equality granted to Jews · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  12. c. 1890–1899 AD Czech economic boycott of Jewish shopkeepers · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  13. c. 1890–1899 AD Wave of blood libels in Bohemia · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  14. 1899 AD Hilsner case · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  15. 1899–1901 AD Hilsner trial (Polna Affair) · Polná, Czech Republic

20th century

  1. 1913 AD Blood libel attempt in Kolín · Kolín, Czech Republic
  2. 1938 AD Arrest of remaining Jews in Liberec during Sudeten crisis · Liberec, Czech Republic
  3. 1938 AD Burning of Cheb's synagogues · Cheb, Czech Republic
  4. 1938 AD Demolition of Sobědruhy synagogue and damage to cemetery under Nazi rule · Sobědruhy, Czech Republic
  5. 1938 AD Demolition of the Liberec synagogue · Liberec, Czech Republic
  6. 1938 AD Destruction of the Most synagogue · Most, Czech Republic
  7. 1939 AD Attack on Jewish shops in Budweis · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  8. 1939 AD Closure of the Jewish congregation offices · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  9. 1940 AD Confiscation of Jewish shops in Kolín · Kolín, Czech Republic
  10. 1940 AD Forced labor of Jewish women in Kolín soap factory · Kolín, Czech Republic
  11. 1940 AD Jews concentrated in a single building in Budweis · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  12. 1940 AD Nazi blood-libel proceedings at Velhartice · Velhartice, Czech Republic
  13. 1941 AD Jewish badge order issued for the Reich · Germany and elsewhere
  14. 1941 AD Prague physician Karol Boetim dies of typhus near Lódz · Prague, Czech Republic
  15. 1941 AD Theresienstadt ghetto established · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  16. 1941 AD Yellow Star imposed in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia · Slovakia and elsewhere
  17. 1942 AD Deportation of Bohemian Jewish communities · Bohemia, Czech Republic
  18. 1942 AD Deportation of Hermanuv Mestec Jews to Auschwitz via Theresienstadt · Heřmanův Městec, Czech Republic
  19. 1942 AD Deportation of Jews from Budweis to death camps · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  20. 1942 AD Deportation of Kolín Jews to Theresienstadt and death camps · Kolín, Czech Republic
  21. 1942 AD First Theresienstadt transports to Auschwitz · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  22. 1942 AD German Jews and Paderborn orphans deported to Theresienstadt · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  23. 1942 AD Nazis liquidate the Roudnice Jewish community · Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
  24. 1942 AD One thousand Prague Jews deported east and murdered · Prague, Czech Republic
  25. 1942 AD One thousand Theresienstadt Jews deported to Riga · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  26. 1942 AD Synagogue of Budweis blown up · České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  27. 1942 AD Theresienstadt Jews deported to Izbica Lubelska · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  28. 1942 AD Theresienstadt deportees gassed at Maly Trostinets · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  29. 1942 AD Theresienstadt deportees gassed near Minsk · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  30. 1942 AD Three thousand Theresienstadt Jews deported to their deaths · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  31. 1942 AD Viennese Jews deported to Minsk Ghetto · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  32. 1943 AD Families sent from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  33. 1943 AD Theresienstadt ghetto transports to Auschwitz · Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic
  34. 1952 AD Slansky Trial in Prague amid antisemitic Stalinist show trials · Prague, Czech Republic

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