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Place in Germany

What happened to the Jews in Mainz

39 events, 1012 AD to 1943 AD

11th century

  1. 1012 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Mainz by Henry II · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1012 AD Persecution of Mainz Jews under Henry II · Mainz, Germany
  3. 1084 AD Mainz Jews accused of causing a great fire · Mainz, Germany
  4. 1096 AD 1,200 Jews of Mainz take their own lives facing forced conversion · Mainz (Mayence), Germany
  5. 1096 AD Destruction of the Jews of Mainz by Emicho's crusaders · Mainz (Mayence), Germany
  6. 1096 AD Rhineland massacres · Speyer, Germany

12th century

  1. 1147 AD Second Crusade killings in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1160–1200 AD Archbishop Conrad exacts the humiliating Jews' oath · Mainz, Germany

13th century

  1. 1213 AD Pope Innocent III cancels crusaders' interest on Jewish debts · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1233 AD Council of Mainz excommunicates Christians associating with Jews · Mainz, Germany
  3. 1259 AD Mainz synod orders yellow badge · Mainz, Germany
  4. 1259 AD Synod of Fritzlar imposes the Jewish badge on Mainz Jews · Mainz, Germany
  5. 1281 AD Killing of R. Meir and burning of the Mainz synagogue · Mainz, Germany
  6. 1281–1283 AD Blood libel killings and synagogue burning in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  7. 1283 AD Blood libel in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  8. 1283 AD Ten Jews slain by the populace in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  9. 1286 AD City seizes abandoned Jewish real estate in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  10. c. 1290 AD Ritual murder accusation raised at Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  11. 1295 AD Archbishop Gerhard assigns Mainz Jews to the city with right to tax them at will · Mainz, Germany

14th century

  1. 1310 AD Archbishop Peter worsens anti-Jewish regulations · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1349 AD Massacre of the Jews of Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  3. 1385 AD Archbishop Adolf remits Jews' tax and abolishes dice-tax · Mainz, Germany

15th century

  1. 1414 AD Jews permitted to return to Mainz by Archbishop Diether · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1420 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Mainz (1420) · Mainz, Germany
  3. 1438 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  4. 1445 AD Jews readmitted to Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  5. 1462 AD Archbishop Adolf II confiscates Jewish real estate · Mainz, Germany
  6. 1462 AD Second expulsion of Jews from Mainz by Archbishop Adolf · Mainz, Germany
  7. 1473 AD Definitive expulsion of Jews from Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  8. 1473 AD Jews permitted to return to Mainz · Mainz, Germany

16th century

  1. 1579 AD Jews forced to leave Mainz and the Rhine district · Mainz, Germany

17th century

  1. 1662–1671 AD Elector limits number of Jews permitted in Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  2. c. 1671 AD Jews of Mainz confined to a single street (ghetto) · Mainz, Germany
  3. 1671 AD Limit on number of Jewish families in Mainz · Mainz, Germany

18th century

  1. 1792–1814 AD Jews of Mainz become free French citizens · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1798 AD Ghetto gates of Mainz removed · Mainz, Germany

19th century

  1. 1808–1847 AD Napoleonic decree requiring Jews to hold good-character certificates for trade · Mainz, Germany

20th century

  1. 1942 AD Deportation of the Jews of Mainz · Mainz, Germany
  2. 1943 AD Final liquidation of the Mainz Jewish community · Mainz, Germany

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