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What happened to the Jews in Italy

728 events, 139 BC to 1992 AD

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Timeline

2nd century BC

  1. 139 BC Praetor Hispanus expels non-citizen Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy

1st century

  1. 19 AD Synagogues closed and ritual vessels burned in Rome under Tiberius · Rome, Italy
  2. 19 AD Tiberius deports 4,000 Jewish youths to Sardinia · Sardinia, Italy
  3. 19 AD Tiberius expels Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  4. 19 AD Tiberius orders expulsion of Jews from Italy · Italy
  5. 31 AD Jews allowed to return to Rome after Sejanus's death · Rome, Italy
  6. 41–53 AD Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  7. 49 AD Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  8. 49–50 AD Claudius forbids Jewish religious services in Rome · Rome, Italy
  9. 50 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  10. c. 90 AD Domitian's stringent measures against Jews and tax evaders · Rome, Italy

3rd century

  1. 204 AD Septimius Severus bans conversion to Judaism · Rome, Italy

4th century

  1. 387 AD Destruction of a Rome synagogue during anti-Jewish tumult · Rome, Italy
  2. 388 AD Ambrose forces Theodosius to revoke synagogue rebuilding order · Milan, Italy

5th century

  1. 489–526 AD Christians burn synagogues in Ravenna · Ravenna, Italy
  2. c. 493–526 AD Mob attack on Jews and synagogue arson in Rome under Theodoric · Rome, Italy

6th century

  1. c. 507 AD Christian mob sacks the synagogue of Milan · Milan, Italy
  2. 511 AD Destruction of Genoa synagogue by Christian fanatics · Genoa, Italy
  3. 519 AD Burning of Ravenna's synagogues · Ravenna, Italy
  4. c. 590–604 AD Bishop of Palermo seizes synagogue and converts it to a church · Palermo, Italy
  5. 590–604 AD Pope Gregory I moves against Jewish slave-trading · Rome, Italy
  6. 598 AD Bishop Victor seizes Palermo synagogue and hospice · Palermo, Italy
  7. 598 AD Conversion of Jews in Agrigento under Gregory the Great · Agrigento, Italy
  8. 599 AD Mob desecrates the Cagliari synagogue · Cagliari, Italy

8th century

  1. 790 AD Synagogue of Cagliari destroyed by fire · Cagliari, Italy

9th century

  1. 855 AD Ludwig II's edict ordering Italian Jews to leave · Italy
  2. 867–886 AD Basil I's forced conversion drive against Apulian Jews · Apulia, Italy
  3. c. 872 AD Religious persecution of the Jews of Oria · Oria, Italy
  4. 887–888 AD Saracen governor of Sicily imposes donkey sign and yellow belts on Jews · Sicily, Italy
  5. c. 900–999 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Verona · Verona, Italy

10th century

  1. 919–944 AD Romanus I Lecapenus attempts forced conversion and mobs massacre Jews · Apulia, Italy
  2. 925 AD Attack in Oria · Oria, Italy
  3. c. 932 AD Destruction of the Jewish quarter of Bari by a mob · Bari, Italy
  4. 932–936 AD Romanus I's discriminatory laws and forced conversions in southern Italy · Oria, Italy
  5. 945 AD Senate bars Jews from Oriental-bound Venetian ships · Venice, Italy

11th century

  1. 1021 AD Persecution in Rome after an earthquake · Rome, Italy
  2. 1030 AD Fire destroys the ghetto of Bari · Bari, Italy
  3. 1065 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Benevento by Landolfo VI · Benevento, Italy
  4. 1068 AD Rival tax claims on the Jews of Bari · Bari, Italy

12th century

  1. 1134 AD Special tax on Genoese Jews for church oil · Genoa, Italy
  2. 1171 AD Expulsion of Jews from Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  3. 1179 AD Third Council of the Lateran · Rome, Italy
  4. 1179 AD Third Lateran Council bars Jews from employing Christian servants · Italy
  5. c. 1200–1299 AD Pisa statutes bar Jewish testimony and require Jewish badge · Pisa, Italy

13th century

  1. 1215 AD Lateran Council restricts the Jews · Rome, Italy
  2. 1216–1227 AD Honorius III tears down new synagogues in Rome · Rome, Italy
  3. 1220 AD Conversions of Palermo Jews after persecution · Palermo, Italy
  4. 1221–1222 AD Frederick II orders badge and beards for Jews of Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  5. 1221–1222 AD Jewish badge imposed in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  6. 1224 AD Frederick II grants Sicilian Inquisition a third of Jewish confiscations · Sicily, Italy
  7. 1225 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Lombardy including Pavia · Pavia, Italy
  8. 1226 AD Extortion of Donfolino by the mayor of Ravenna · Ravenna, Italy
  9. c. 1235 AD Inquisition turns its attention to the Jews of Italy · Italy
  10. c. 1245 AD Burning of the Talmud in Rome · Rome, Italy
  11. 1254 AD Jewish revenues in Agrigento taxed for the church · Agrigento, Italy
  12. 1257 AD Alexander IV imposes the badge in the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  13. 1257 AD Jewish badge imposed in Rome · Rome, Italy
  14. 1258 AD Jewish quarter assigned in Cagliari · Cagliari, Italy
  15. 1267 AD Bull Turbato Corde empowers Inquisition against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  16. c. 1268 AD Destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Rome · Rome, Italy
  17. 1270 AD Desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Rome · Rome, Italy
  18. 1278 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons begin in Lombardy · Lombardy, Italy
  19. 1278 AD Nicholas III bull urges Inquisition against converts · Rome, Italy
  20. 1290 AD Customs duty imposed on Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  21. 1290–1294 AD Forced baptism of Apulian Jews under Charles II of Anjou · Apulia, Italy
  22. 1292 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Campania · Campania, Italy
  23. c. 1294 AD Trani blood libel and forced conversion of southern Italian Jews · Trani, Italy
  24. c. 1294–1303 AD Boniface VIII's terror: denunciations and burning of Rome's rabbi · Rome, Italy
  25. c. 1294–1303 AD Jews of Rome placed under merchant gilds' jurisdiction · Rome, Italy
  26. 1296 AD Council of Piazza bars Jewish physicians from treating Christians · Piazza Armerina, Italy
  27. 1298 AD Judicial murder of R. Elijah de' Pomi · Rome, Italy
  28. c. 1299 AD Jews leave Brindisi to escape forced conversions and taxes · Brindisi, Italy

14th century

  1. c. 1301–1310 AD Jews of Ferrara heavily fined by the Inquisition · Ferrara, Italy
  2. 1311 AD King Robert orders punishment of relapsed converts · Apulia, Italy
  3. 1311 AD Theft of pledges from Jewish moneylenders in Cosenza · Cosenza, Italy
  4. 1312 AD Coronation-tax levied on Rome paid only by Jews · Rome, Italy
  5. 1312 AD Frederick II revokes Cassaro expulsion decree · Palermo, Italy
  6. 1312 AD Order confining Jews to a ghetto outside the city wall · Palermo, Italy
  7. 1320 AD Expulsion of Jews from Milan · Milan, Italy
  8. 1320 AD Expulsion order and temporary exile of Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  9. 1322 AD Badge order for the Jews of Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  10. 1322 AD Public burning of the Talmud in Rome · Rome, Italy
  11. 1322 AD Riot in Rome after the Talmud burning · Rome, Italy
  12. 1323 AD Forced conversion of Brindisi Jews by Christian inhabitants · Brindisi, Italy
  13. 1327 AD Jewish settlement in Iglesias prohibited · Iglesias, Italy
  14. 1339 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Palermo · Palermo, Italy
  15. 1343 AD Joanna I renews punishment of relapsed converts · Apulia, Italy
  16. 1347 AD Compulsory stable-cleaning by Jews abolished · Sicily, Italy
  17. 1347 AD Jews of Messina executed on false ritual murder charge · Messina, Italy
  18. 1348 AD Plague-related violence against Jews of Parma · Parma, Italy
  19. c. 1349 AD City statutes regulate Jewish taxes and costume in Rome · Rome, Italy
  20. 1350 AD Expulsions from districts of Germany, Italy and the Balkans · Germany and elsewhere
  21. 1360 AD Roman statutes prescribe red Jewish dress · Rome, Italy
  22. 1366 AD Ban on external decoration of synagogues · Sicily, Italy
  23. 1366 AD Decorated synagogues pulled down · Sicily, Italy
  24. 1366 AD Jews enclosed in a ghetto at Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  25. 1368 AD Harsh treatment of converts returning to Judaism · Brindisi, Italy
  26. 1369 AD Jewish badge ordered in Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  27. 1385 AD Annual tax of 4,000 ducats imposed on Jews · Venice, Italy
  28. 1392 AD Ghetto established in Ghettos · Sicily, Italy
  29. 1392 AD Order to confine Jews to ghettos · Sicily, Italy
  30. 1392 AD Persecutions in San Giuliano, Catania and Syracuse · Erice (San Giuliano), Italy
  31. 1393 AD Ban on funeral decorations · Sicily, Italy
  32. 1394–1396 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Venice to Mestre · Venice, Italy
  33. 1396 AD Fifteen-day residence limit and yellow badge for Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  34. 1396 AD Jews recalled to Venice after expulsion · Venice, Italy
  35. 1397 AD Agrigento Jews compelled to equip soldiers for King Martin I · Agrigento, Italy
  36. 1399 AD Italian Jews form synods amid anti-Jewish measures · Italy
  37. 1400 AD Request to segregate Jews of Como · Como, Italy
  38. c. 1400–1499 AD Bishops of Cosenza attempt to tax Jewish assets · Cosenza, Italy

15th century

  1. 1402 AD Marsala Jews' appeal against burdens granted · Marsala, Italy
  2. 1405 AD Venetian rule strips Padua's Jews of citizenship and settlement rights · Padua, Italy
  3. 1408 AD Jews barred from all professions except moneylending in Verona · Verona, Italy
  4. 1415 AD Expulsion of the Jews of Vizzini · Vizzini, Italy
  5. 1417 AD Bishop Albergati orders Jews to wear yellow badge · Bologna, Italy
  6. 1420 AD Venetian authorities impose lower interest rate on Jewish bankers in Padua · Padua, Italy
  7. 1422 AD Jewish badge imposed in Verona · Verona, Italy
  8. 1423 AD Jews forbidden to hold real estate in Venice · Venice, Italy
  9. 1425 AD Turin Jews compelled to live in a restricted area · Turin, Italy
  10. 1428 AD Decree compelling Jews to attend conversionist sermons · Sicily, Italy
  11. 1429 AD Martin V's bull easing restrictions on Jews · Rome, Italy
  12. 1430 AD Amadeus VIII's statute imposes badge and restrictions on Jews · Turin, Italy
  13. 1430 AD Conversionist sermon decree repealed · Sicily, Italy
  14. 1430 AD Discriminatory restrictions imposed on Sardinian Jews · Sardinia, Italy
  15. 1430 AD Jewish badge enforced in Padua · Padua, Italy
  16. c. 1430 AD Jews of Turin confined to Via San Tommaso · Turin, Italy
  17. 1430 AD Statutes of Amadeus VIII impose badge on Jews · Vercelli, Italy
  18. 1430–1431 AD Alfonso V repeals ordinances unfavorable to Jews · Sicily, Italy
  19. c. 1430–1485 AD Harsh restrictions on Jews of Cagliari and other communities · Cagliari, Italy
  20. c. 1431–1447 AD Eugenius IV's severe anti-Jewish bull · Rome, Italy
  21. 1434 AD New repressive measures against Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  22. 1436 AD Como demands Jewish badge and taxes from newcomers · Como, Italy
  23. 1436 AD Jewish mansions assigned to university students · Turin, Italy
  24. 1442 AD Eugene IV's bull stripping Jews of rights · Ravenna, Italy
  25. 1442 AD Eugenius IV introduces harsh anti-Jewish measures · Papal States, Italy
  26. 1442 AD Eugenius IV issues sweeping restrictions on Italian Jews · Tivoli, Italy
  27. 1442 AD Eugenius IV's restrictive bull of 1442 · Rome, Italy
  28. 1443 AD Professions again denied to Jews; badge changed to star · Verona, Italy
  29. 1447 AD Nicholas V bans Jewish moneylending at interest · Papal States, Italy
  30. 1447–1455 AD Nicholas V renews anti-Jewish legislation · Rome, Italy
  31. 1448 AD Jews of Vercelli compelled to live in separate quarter · Vercelli, Italy
  32. 1449 AD Nicolas V orders death for Jewish apostates in Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  33. 1450 AD Capistrano's disputation at Rome · Rome, Italy
  34. c. 1450 AD Dominican harassment of Jews in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  35. 1450 AD Jews allowed to practise medicine and live outside the ghetto · Palermo, Italy
  36. 1451 AD Jews of Sicily compelled to pay inquisitor's expenses · Palermo, Italy
  37. 1452 AD Christian hostility forces Jewish families to emigrate from Fano · Fano, Italy
  38. 1452 AD Jews placed under secular jurisdiction · Palermo, Italy
  39. 1452 AD Yellow badge imposed on Jews of Milan · Milan, Italy
  40. 1455 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Padua · Padua, Italy
  41. 1455 AD Riot against Jewish delegation on accession of Calixtus III · Rome, Italy
  42. 1456 AD Borso forces Ferrara Jews to plant avenue of poplars · Ferrara, Italy
  43. 1458 AD Anti-Jewish demonstration in Florence (1458) · Florence, Italy
  44. 1458 AD Yellow badge order renewed at Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  45. 1459 AD Pius II demands a one-fifth levy on Jewish property · Lombardy, Italy
  46. 1459 AD Special tax imposed on the Jews of Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  47. 1463 AD Anti-Jewish outbreaks in Bari and Lecce · Bari, Italy
  48. 1463 AD Burning of Jewish quarter and expulsion of Jews from Lecce · Lecce, Italy
  49. 1463 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Brescia · Brescia, Italy
  50. 1464 AD Jews' badge introduced in Fano · Fano, Italy
  51. 1468 AD Monte di pietà established at Recanati against Jewish lenders · Recanati, Italy
  52. 1468 AD Monte di pietà founded in Urbino to restrict Jewish activities · Urbino, Italy
  53. 1471 AD Anti-Jewish demonstration in Florence (1471) · Florence, Italy
  54. c. 1471 AD Assault on Jewish houses in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  55. 1471 AD Badge requirement practically dispensed with · Palermo, Italy
  56. 1472 AD Simon of Trent · Trento (Trent), Italy
  57. 1472–1473 AD Expulsion of Jews from Florence during the plague · Florence, Italy
  58. 1473 AD Renewed expulsion and restriction of Padua's Jews · Padua, Italy
  59. 1473 AD Yellow wheel badge imposed on Jews of Parma · Parma, Italy
  60. 1473–1474 AD Inquisitor's trials of Palermo Jews for blasphemy · Palermo, Italy
  61. 1474 AD Anti-Jewish riots throughout Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  62. 1474 AD Massacre in La Giudecca · Modica, Italy
  63. 1474 AD Persecution of Jews in Modica · Modica, Italy
  64. 1475 AD Anti-Jewish disturbances in Brescia after Simon of Trent accusation · Brescia, Italy
  65. 1475 AD Attacks on Brescia Jews after Simon of Trent blood libel · Brescia, Italy
  66. 1475 AD Blood libel against the Jews of Trent · Trento (Trent), Italy
  67. 1475 AD Expulsion of rabbis Joseph Colon and Judah Messer Leon · Mantua, Italy
  68. 1475 AD Mob attacks Jews of Padua after Trent blood libel rumors · Padua, Italy
  69. 1475 AD Palermo Jews pay to silence false accusation · Palermo, Italy
  70. 1475 AD Persecution of Jews in Noto and Caltagirone · Noto, Italy
  71. 1476 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Vicenza · Vicenza, Italy
  72. 1476–1477 AD Closure of Jewish school and diversion of Anello bequest · Agrigento, Italy
  73. 1477 AD Ferdinand and Isabella confirm the 1224 Sicilian law · Spain and elsewhere
  74. 1478 AD Blood libel in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  75. 1478 AD Como imposes restrictive contract with higher taxes on Jews · Como, Italy
  76. 1479 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bergamo and Treviso · Bergamo, Italy
  77. 1480 AD Duke bans Bernardinus of Feltre's anti-Jewish preaching in Pavia · Pavia, Italy
  78. 1480 AD Ottoman invasion of Otranto kills Jews · Otranto, Italy
  79. 1480–1494 AD Bernardino da Feltre's sermons against Pavia's Jewish loan-bankers · Pavia, Italy
  80. 1481 AD Annulment of Jewish short-term lending decree · Parma, Italy
  81. 1481 AD Decree fixing harsh penalties for offenses against Christianity · Sardinia, Italy
  82. 1481–1487 AD Anti-Jewish restrictions in Sardinia · Sardinia, Italy
  83. 1482 AD Padua's Jews placed under the Venetian senate's supervision · Padua, Italy
  84. 1483 AD Jewish moneylending officially permitted again in Padua · Padua, Italy
  85. 1485 AD Jews compelled to attend anti-Jewish sermons · Mantua, Italy
  86. 1485 AD Jews declared royal property and barred from exporting belongings · Sardinia, Italy
  87. 1487 AD Innocent VIII's bull against the Maranos and arrests in Rome · Rome, Italy
  88. 1487 AD Persecution of Jews in Syracuse · Syracuse, Italy
  89. 1488 AD Anti-Jewish disorders and sacking of loan banks in Forlì · Forlì, Italy
  90. 1489 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy of Milan · Lombardy, Italy
  91. 1489 AD Jewish bankers fined and expelled from Lucca · Lucca, Italy
  92. 1490 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Verona after Monte di Pietà founded · Verona, Italy
  93. 1490–1492 AD Expulsion of Jews from Florence (1490) · Florence, Italy
  94. 1491 AD Expulsion of Jews from Ravenna · Ravenna, Italy
  95. 1491 AD Killing of Rabbi Biton at Castiglione · Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy
  96. 1492 AD Blood libel preached against Jews of Fano · Fano, Italy
  97. 1492 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Messina and Sicily · Messina, Italy
  98. 1492 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sardinia · Sardinia, Italy
  99. 1492 AD Genoa demands baptism of exiled Spanish Jews · Genoa, Italy
  100. 1492 AD Inquisition tribunal established in Sardinia · Sardinia, Italy
  101. 1492 AD Repeal of temporary harbor stay for Spanish Jewish exiles · Genoa, Italy
  102. 1492 AD Sicily and Sardinia expel Jews under Spanish rule · Sicily, Italy
  103. 1492–1498 AD Second expulsion and recall of Jews from Florence · Florence, Italy
  104. 1493 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  105. 1493 AD Jew executed on false charge of defacing Virgin statue · Florence, Italy
  106. 1493 AD Withdrawal of landing permission for Spanish Jewish refugees · Genoa, Italy
  107. 1494 AD Expulsion of Jews from Naples · Naples, Italy
  108. 1494 AD Expulsion of some Jews from Brescia · Brescia, Italy
  109. 1494 AD Jews expelled from Florence and Tuscany · Florence, Italy
  110. 1494–1495 AD Attacks on Jews in the kingdom of Naples · Kingdom of Naples, Italy
  111. 1495 AD Forced baptism of the Jews of Cosenza · Cosenza, Italy
  112. 1495 AD Massacre in Lecce · Lecce, Italy
  113. 1495 AD Persecution of Apulian Jews during French occupation · Apulia, Italy
  114. 1495 AD Pillage of Jewish property in Bari · Bari, Italy
  115. 1495 AD Plunder and expulsion of the Jews of Lecce during French invasion · Lecce, Italy
  116. 1495 AD Riots and confiscation of Daniel Norsa's house in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  117. 1496 AD Jewish badge ordered in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  118. 1496 AD Venice replaces yellow circle with yellow head-covering · Venice, Italy
  119. 1497 AD Lecce synagogue converted into a church · Lecce, Italy
  120. 1499 AD Expulsion of Jews from Verona · Verona, Italy
  121. c. 1499 AD Jewish badge introduced in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  122. c. 1500 AD Badge ordered and residence ban renewed in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  123. c. 1500 AD Ferdinand I expels Jews from Lower Austria and Görz · Lower Austria, Austria and elsewhere
  124. c. 1500 AD Walling-in of the Rome ghetto under Paul IV · Rome, Italy

16th century

  1. 1507 AD Restrictions on Jewish pledge sales in Urbino · Urbino, Italy
  2. 1508 AD Duke Francesco Maria annuls Jewish privileges and imposes badge · Urbino, Italy
  3. c. 1508 AD Jews of Urbino confined to a separate quarter · Urbino, Italy
  4. 1509 AD Destruction of graves in Padua's second Jewish cemetery · Padua, Italy
  5. 1509 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bergamo by the French · Bergamo, Italy
  6. 1509–1512 AD Plundering and expulsion of the Jews of Brescia under French rule · Brescia, Italy
  7. 1510 AD Expulsion of Jews from Naples · Naples, Italy
  8. 1510 AD Ferdinand of Spain expels Jews from southern Italy · Italy
  9. 1511 AD Violence against Jews in Palermo · Palermo, Italy
  10. 1514 AD Jewish moneylenders recalled to Florence · Florence, Italy
  11. 1515 AD Expulsion of Jews from Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  12. 1515 AD Expulsion of the neofiti · Apulia, Italy
  13. 1515 AD Naples expulsion extended to New Christians · Naples, Italy
  14. 1516 AD Jews readmitted to Brescia by Venice · Brescia, Italy
  15. 1516 AD Jews readmitted to Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  16. 1516 AD Venetian Ghetto established · Venice, Italy
  17. 1516 AD Venice's Jewish quarter named the Ghetto Nuovo · Venice, Italy
  18. 1519 AD Jews permitted to return to Brescia · Brescia, Italy
  19. 1520 AD Limited readmission of Jews to Bari · Bari, Italy
  20. 1520 AD Limited residence and commercial rights granted to Jews · Kingdom of Naples, Italy
  21. 1522–1523 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Rome under Hadrian VI · Rome, Italy
  22. 1523 AD Revival of restrictive slaughtering law for Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  23. 1526–1548 AD Ban on Jewish moneylending in Verona · Verona, Italy
  24. 1527 AD Expulsion of Jewish money-lenders from Venice · Venice, Italy
  25. 1527 AD Order for Jews to leave Florence · Florence, Italy
  26. 1527 AD Yellow cap substituted for wheel badge · Verona, Italy
  27. 1531 AD Anti-Jewish enactments abolished under Alessandro de Medici · Florence, Italy
  28. 1531 AD Solomon Molko burned at the stake · Mantua, Italy
  29. 1532 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Muggia · Muggia, Italy
  30. 1533 AD Decree expelling the Jews from Naples · Naples, Italy
  31. 1534 AD Condotta of 1534 obliges Jewish community to keep loan banks · Venice, Italy
  32. 1534 AD Jews recalled to Venice · Venice, Italy
  33. 1539 AD Jews exiled from Naples settle in Ancona · Naples, Italy
  34. 1540 AD Jews driven from Apulia by the viceroy of Naples · Apulia, Italy
  35. 1540–1541 AD Final expulsion of the Jews from Bari · Bari, Italy
  36. 1541 AD Charles V bars Jews from living in Milan · Milan, Italy
  37. 1541 AD Permission for friars to incite against Jews rescinded · Cremona, Italy
  38. 1542 AD Cornelio of Montalcino burned at Rome · Rome, Italy
  39. 1542 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Kingdom of Naples · Kingdom of Naples, Italy
  40. 1543 AD Monte di pietà established against Jewish moneylenders · Rome, Italy
  41. 1547 AD Closing of Jewish banks in Padua · Padua, Italy
  42. 1547 AD Exile of Joseph ha-Kohen from Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  43. 1547 AD Violence against Jews in Asolo · Asolo, Italy
  44. 1548 AD Ban on Jewish printers and publishers in Venice · Venice, Italy
  45. 1549 AD Jewish cemetery confiscated for a monastery · Mantua, Italy
  46. 1550 AD Convert to Judaism Cornelio of Montalcino burned at the stake · Rome, Italy
  47. 1550 AD Expulsion of Jews from Genoa, Italy · Genoa, Italy
  48. 1550 AD Jews granted free residence; badge and ghetto abolished · Genoa, Italy
  49. 1550 AD Venice bans Crypto-Jews from settling · Venice, Italy
  50. 1550–1555 AD Tax on synagogues of the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  51. 1551 AD Cosimo grants extensive privileges to the Jews · Florence, Italy
  52. 1553 AD Accusation against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  53. 1553 AD Blood libel accusation in Asti · Asti, Italy
  54. 1553 AD Burning of Hebrew books in Urbino · Urbino, Italy
  55. 1553 AD Burning of the Talmud and Hebrew books at Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  56. 1553 AD Burning of the Talmud at Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  57. 1553 AD Burning of the Talmud in the Duchy of Florence · Florence, Italy
  58. 1553 AD Burning of the Talmud throughout Italy · Italy
  59. 1553 AD Enforcement of papal bull ordering Talmud burned · Cremona, Italy
  60. 1553 AD Papal decree condemning the Talmud in Venice · Venice, Italy
  61. 1553 AD Talmud burned in Pesaro · Pesaro, Italy
  62. 1553 AD Talmud burned in Rome on Rosh Hashanah · Rome, Italy
  63. 1553 AD Talmud confiscated and burned in Venice and other Italian cities · Venice, Italy
  64. 1553 AD Talmud confiscation and burning at Ravenna · Ravenna, Italy
  65. 1554 AD Italian Jews meet in Ferrara over Talmud ban · Ferrara, Italy
  66. 1554 AD Papal bull introducing censorship of Hebrew books · Papal States, Italy
  67. 1554 AD Violence against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  68. 1554–1566 AD Inquisition searches for forbidden Hebrew books · Lombardy, Italy
  69. 1555 AD Anti-Jewish code and ghettos enforced in northern Italy · Northern Italy, Italy
  70. 1555 AD Blood libel suspicion after murder of a child and incitement by convert · Rome, Italy
  71. 1555 AD Closure of synagogues and forced sale of property in Rome · Rome, Italy
  72. 1555 AD Deterioration of Jewish position under Paul IV in Benevento · Benevento, Italy
  73. 1555 AD Papal bull · Rome, Italy
  74. 1555 AD Papal bull Cum nimis absurdum · Rome, Italy
  75. 1555 AD Violence against Jews in Ancona · Ancona, Italy
  76. c. 1555–1559 AD Paul IV's commissioner forces Portuguese Jews to convert · Ancona, Italy
  77. 1555–1559 AD Paul IV's restrictions on Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  78. 1556 AD Burning of the Talmud and Hebrew books permitted · Padua, Italy
  79. 1556 AD Dona Gracia Mendes leads boycott of Ancona · Ancona, Italy
  80. c. 1556 AD Duke Guido Ubaldo exiles Marranos from Pesaro · Pesaro, Italy
  81. 1556 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Vercelli · Vercelli, Italy
  82. 1556 AD Jews again enclosed in a ghetto at Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  83. 1556 AD Jews permitted to practise most handicrafts · Rome, Italy
  84. 1556 AD Paul IV orders burning of Jews and Maranos from Portugal · Papal States, Italy
  85. 1556 AD Tax for closed synagogues · Rome, Italy
  86. 1557 AD Ashkenazic synagogue closed and fined · Rome, Italy
  87. 1557 AD Confiscation of all Hebrew books in Rome · Rome, Italy
  88. 1558 AD Convert's sermon in Recanati synagogue nearly sparks massacre · Recanati, Italy
  89. 1558 AD Expulsion of Jews from Recanati, Italy · Recanati, Italy
  90. 1558 AD Expulsion of the New Christians from Pesaro · Pesaro, Italy
  91. 1558 AD Inquisitor confiscates Hebrew books in Alessandria · Alessandria, Italy
  92. 1558 AD Jews flogged after synagogue incident in Recanati · Recanati, Italy
  93. 1558 AD Jews ordered excluded from cloth and linen trade in Padua · Padua, Italy
  94. 1559 AD Anti-Jewish abuse in Pavia after monks' preaching · Pavia, Italy
  95. 1559 AD Borromeo bans Jewish moneylending and imposes the badge · Cremona, Italy
  96. 1559 AD Burning of the Talmud at Cremona · Cremona, Italy
  97. 1559 AD David d'Ascoli punished and his protest destroyed · Italy
  98. 1559 AD Jews permitted to return to Bergamo · Bergamo, Italy
  99. 1559 AD Paul IV places the Talmud on the Index · Italy
  100. 1559 AD Pius IV abolishes Paul IV's anti-Jewish measures · Ancona, Italy
  101. 1559 AD Talmud placed on the Index Expurgatorius · Papal States, Italy
  102. 1560 AD Annual payment imposed on Jews for university students · Turin, Italy
  103. 1560 AD Emmanuel Philibert decrees expulsion of Jews from his dominions · Piedmont, Italy
  104. 1560–1566 AD Expulsion decrees of Emmanuel Philibert canceled · Turin, Italy
  105. 1561 AD Pius IV revokes most of Paul IV's anti-Jewish enactments · Rome, Italy
  106. 1564 AD Talmud allowed to be printed again · Rome, Italy
  107. 1565 AD Pius IV orders the Talmud stripped of its name · Papal States, Italy
  108. 1566 AD Philip II decrees banishment of Jews from Milanese provinces · Lombardy, Italy
  109. 1566 AD Second expulsion decree under Emmanuel Philibert · Piedmont, Italy
  110. 1566 AD Seizure of Hebrew books in Cremona · Cremona, Italy
  111. 1566 AD Senate forbids printing of Hebrew books · Venice, Italy
  112. 1566 AD Tailoring and internal commerce forbidden to Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  113. 1566 AD Yellow cap and ban on interest lending imposed in Milanese territory · Lombardy, Italy
  114. c. 1566–1572 AD Pius V expels Jews from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  115. 1566–1592 AD Expulsion decree for Jews of the duchy of Milan · Lombardy, Italy
  116. 1567 AD Expulsion of Jews from Republic of Genoa · Genoa (Republic of Genoa), Italy
  117. 1567 AD Jewish badge introduced in Florence and Siena · Florence, Italy
  118. 1569 AD Expulsion of Jews from Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  119. 1569 AD Expulsion of Jews from Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  120. 1569 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Benevento · Benevento, Italy
  121. 1569 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Cesena · Cesena, Italy
  122. 1569 AD Jewish cemetery of Bologna given to monks to be destroyed · Bologna, Italy
  123. 1569 AD Pope Pius V expels Jews from the papal states, except for Ancona and Rome · Papal States, Italy
  124. 1569–1570 AD Papal expulsion of Jews from Italian and French territory · Papal States, Italy and elsewhere
  125. 1570 AD Cosimo establishes the Florence ghetto · Florence, Italy
  126. 1570 AD Expulsion of Jews banished from Papal States · Urbino, Italy
  127. 1570 AD Introduction of the ghetto in Urbino · Urbino, Italy
  128. 1570 AD Padua inquisitors seek to compel Jews to attend sermons · Padua, Italy
  129. 1570 AD Yellow badge ordered and Jews expelled from Parma area villages · Parma, Italy
  130. 1570–1586 AD Jews permitted moneylending and shops in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  131. 1571 AD Insulting inscription placed on the ghetto gate · Florence, Italy
  132. 1571 AD Suspicion against Venetian Jews over Joseph Nasi and the war · Venice, Italy
  133. 1571 AD Third banishment of returning Jews from Urbino · Urbino, Italy
  134. 1571 AD Venetian Senate decides to expel Jews from Brescia · Brescia, Italy
  135. 1571 AD Venice resolves to expel its Jews · Venice, Italy
  136. 1572 AD Emmanuel Philibert eases statutes of Amadeus VIII · Piedmont, Italy
  137. 1572 AD Jews limited to 15-day stays in Lucca · Lucca, Italy
  138. 1572 AD Troops attack the Rome ghetto at Passover · Rome, Italy
  139. 1572–1585 AD Gregory XIII regulates compulsory conversionist sermons · Rome, Italy
  140. 1573 AD Compulsory small loans imposed on Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  141. c. 1574 AD Venetian decree of expulsion revoked · Venice, Italy
  142. 1575–1585 AD Gregory XIII's renewed attack on the Talmud · Papal States, Italy
  143. 1577 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons decreed · Rome, Italy
  144. 1577 AD New edicts on the Jewish badge · Mantua, Italy
  145. 1578 AD Jews barred from pawning at the monte di pietà · Verona, Italy
  146. 1581 AD Inquisition given jurisdiction over Jews · Rome, Italy
  147. 1581 AD Jews granted right to deal in manufactured goods · Padua, Italy
  148. 1581 AD Law on confiscating the Talmud repealed · Rome, Italy
  149. 1581–1602 AD Establishment of the Padua ghetto · Padua, Italy
  150. 1583 AD Violence against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  151. 1584 AD Minimum attendance set for conversionist sermons · Rome, Italy
  152. 1586 AD Sixtus V abrogates expulsion decree · Papal States, Italy
  153. 1586 AD Sixtus V bans Jews from the Papal States and the Talmud · Papal States, Italy
  154. 1586 AD Sixtus V permits Jews to return to Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  155. 1587 AD Yellow badge restored in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  156. 1587–1589 AD Authorization of Jewish loan banks in Rimini · Rimini, Italy
  157. 1590 AD Expulsion of Jews from Lombardy · Lombardy, Italy
  158. 1590 AD Expulsion of foreign Jews from Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  159. 1590 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy of Milan · Lombardy, Italy
  160. 1590 AD Papal ban on the Talmud lifted · Italy
  161. 1591 AD Jewish congregation compelled to fund loan banks needed by Venice · Padua, Italy
  162. 1592 AD Clement VIII bans social and business contact with Christians · Rome, Italy
  163. 1592–1597 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Milanese territory · Lombardy, Italy
  164. 1593 AD Banishment of Jews from Ravenna by Clement VIII · Ravenna, Italy
  165. 1593 AD Clement VIII bull expelling Jews from the pontifical states · Papal States, Italy
  166. 1593 AD Clement VIII expels Jews from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  167. 1593 AD Clement VIII renews ban on reading or owning the Talmud · Papal States, Italy
  168. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  169. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Leghorn · Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
  170. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rimini by papal bull · Rimini, Italy
  171. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  172. 1593 AD Jews forbidden to settle in Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  173. 1593 AD Pisa Jewish authorities granted right to naturalize foreign Jews · Pisa, Italy
  174. 1593–1601 AD Talmudic works handed to Inquisition and burned · Rome, Italy
  175. 1596–1597 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Cremona · Cremona, Italy
  176. 1597 AD Banishment of Jews from the Milanese territories · Lombardy, Italy
  177. 1597 AD Banishment of Jews from the duchy of Milan · Lombardy, Italy
  178. 1597 AD Charles Emmanuel banishes Jewish refugees from Vercelli · Vercelli, Italy
  179. 1597 AD Expulsion of Jews from Milan · Milan, Italy
  180. 1598 AD Ban on Jewish moneylending and banking in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  181. 1598 AD Decree against Jewish money-lending in Urbino · Urbino, Italy
  182. 1598 AD Decree of banishment of Jews from Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  183. 1598 AD Ferrara constitution imposing the Jews' badge and restrictions · Ferrara, Italy
  184. 1598 AD Papal restrictions imposed on the Jews of Cento · Cento, Italy
  185. 1598–1602 AD Forced sale of Jewish property in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  186. 1599 AD Brief against growth of the Jewish community · Rome, Italy
  187. 1599 AD Ghetto established in Verona · Verona, Italy
  188. 1599 AD Jews again allowed to open banks in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  189. 1600 AD Giuditta Franchetti burned for witchcraft · Mantua, Italy

17th century

  1. 1602 AD Establishment of the Padua ghetto · Padua, Italy
  2. 1602 AD Restrictions on physicians, forced sale of real estate, and commissioner · Mantua, Italy
  3. 1602 AD Seven Jews hanged for blasphemy in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  4. 1603 AD Ghetto gate regulation · Rome, Italy
  5. 1604 AD Annual tax of 800 scudi for the expelled · Rome, Italy
  6. 1604 AD Jews enclosed in the Verona ghetto · Verona, Italy
  7. 1610–1612 AD Establishment of the Mantua ghetto · Mantua, Italy
  8. 1612 AD Jews accused of murder of Leone Segre · Turin, Italy
  9. c. 1612 AD Jews of Mantua confined to a ghetto · Mantua, Italy
  10. 1617 AD Readmission of Jews to Benevento · Benevento, Italy
  11. 1623 AD Gild restricts sale of manufactured goods, halting Jewish trade · Padua, Italy
  12. 1624 AD Ghetto established in Ferrara, Italy · Ferrara, Italy
  13. 1626 AD Jewish residence moved to San Giovanni di Dio district · Turin, Italy
  14. 1626 AD Jews of San Daniele compelled to wear the badge · San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
  15. 1630 AD Expulsion of 1,800 Jews after the fall of Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  16. 1630 AD Jewish manufacturer required to operate under a Christian name in Venice · Venice, Italy
  17. 1630 AD Plague garments thrown into Verona ghetto · Verona, Italy
  18. 1630 AD Well-poisoning accusation against Benevento Jews · Benevento, Italy
  19. c. 1630–1634 AD Jews made to pay annuity to convert Masserano · Rome, Italy
  20. 1632 AD Papal rule over Urbino restricts Jewish residence · Urbino, Italy
  21. 1633 AD Creation of the Ghetto Nuovissimo in Venice · Venice, Italy
  22. 1634 AD Pesaro Jews confined to a ghetto and made to wear yellow badge · Pesaro, Italy
  23. 1636 AD Ghetto established in Cento · Cento, Italy
  24. 1637 AD Venetian Jews barred from practising law · Venice, Italy
  25. 1638 AD Ban on Jewish settlement in Trent · Trento (Trent), Italy
  26. 1638 AD Establishment of the Modena ghetto · Modena, Italy
  27. 1638 AD Travel restrictions and badge law for Jews in Trent · Trento (Trent), Italy
  28. 1639 AD Children of Fullo Serotino seized and baptized · Rome, Italy
  29. 1641 AD Jewish taxes raised to 150,000 scudi · Papal States, Italy
  30. 1648 AD Mob outrages in the Ferrara ghetto · Ferrara, Italy
  31. 1651 AD Mob attack on the Ferrara ghetto (1651) · Ferrara, Italy
  32. 1659 AD Bull of general banishment from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  33. 1659 AD Oppressive regulations and ten-year residence limit · Genoa, Italy
  34. 1660 AD Ghetto established in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  35. 1668 AD Compulsory foot-races abolished · Rome, Italy
  36. c. 1676–1689 AD Compulsory baptisms under Innocent XI · Rome, Italy
  37. 1679–1680 AD Ghetto relocated to quarter of Beatus Amadeus · Turin, Italy
  38. 1682 AD Pope Innocent XII abolishes Jewish loan-banks · Northern Italy, Italy
  39. 1682 AD Suppression of Jewish loan banks in Rome · Rome, Italy
  40. 1684 AD Peasant mob attacks Padua ghetto · Padua, Italy
  41. 1689 AD Attacks on Jews of Cento after fall of Buda · Cento, Italy
  42. 1690 AD Community forced to pay entire ghetto rent · Florence, Italy
  43. 1691 AD State demands large loan of 16,300 ducats from Jews · Padua, Italy
  44. 1695–1696 AD Confinement of Trieste Jews in the Old Ghetto · Trieste, Italy
  45. 1695–1702 AD Temporary readmission of Jews to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Italy
  46. 1699 AD Jews released from compulsory Christian sermons · Mantua, Italy
  47. 1700 AD Opera Pia dei Catecumeni founded in Modena · Modena, Italy
  48. c. 1700–1720 AD Blood libel in Rome under Clement XI · Rome, Italy
  49. c. 1700–1720 AD Clement XI ends humiliating carnival processions · Rome, Italy
  50. c. 1700–1720 AD Compulsory baptisms under Clement XI · Rome, Italy

18th century

  1. 1704 AD State demands large loan of 20,000 ducats from Jews · Padua, Italy
  2. 1705 AD Mob attack on the Ferrara ghetto (1705) · Ferrara, Italy
  3. 1708 AD Abolition of Jewish judicial autonomy in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  4. 1713 AD Cantarini brothers barred from building silk-spinning mill · Padua, Italy
  5. 1714 AD Expulsion of Jews from Milan lifted formally · Milan, Italy
  6. 1714 AD Expulsion of Jews from Milan lifted in practice · Milan, Italy
  7. 1714 AD Suppression of the Jewish bank in San Daniele · San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
  8. 1721 AD Blood libel charge in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  9. 1723 AD Ghettoization of the Jews of Moncalvo · Moncalvo, Italy
  10. 1723 AD Regie costituzioni applied against Jews in Savoy · Piedmont, Italy
  11. 1723–1729 AD Regie Costituzioni establish separate Jewish quarters · Piedmont, Italy
  12. 1723–1729 AD Victor Amadeus II renews restrictive statutes · Turin, Italy
  13. 1723–1770 AD Hostile constitutions enforced against Jews' property rights · Piedmont, Italy
  14. 1724 AD Establishment of the Alessandria ghetto · Alessandria, Italy
  15. 1724 AD Ghetto established in Mondovì · Mondovì, Italy
  16. 1724 AD Jews of Vercelli confined to a ghetto · Vercelli, Italy
  17. 1725–1731 AD Jewish hat decrees in Trent · Trento (Trent), Italy
  18. 1728 AD Tax on the Jews of Dalmatia and Venice · Dalmatia, Croatia and elsewhere
  19. 1730 AD Ghetto made compulsory in Asti · Asti, Italy
  20. c. 1730–1740 AD Ban on epitaphs on Jewish tombs repeated · Rome, Italy
  21. 1731 AD Hebrew books confiscated in the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  22. 1732–1733 AD Roman decree of 1732 and 1733 edict against Ferrara Jews · Ferrara, Italy
  23. 1735 AD Expulsion of Jews from Naples lifted formally · Naples, Italy
  24. 1735 AD Expulsion of Jews from Naples lifted in practice · Naples, Italy
  25. 1735 AD Jews' badge on journeys abolished in Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  26. 1737 AD Last decree of expulsion of Jews from Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  27. 1738 AD Residence time restriction relaxed in individual cases · Lucca, Italy
  28. 1740 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily lifted formally · Sicily, Italy
  29. 1740 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily lifted in practice · Sicily, Italy
  30. 1740–1746 AD Second temporary readmission of Jews to the Two Sicilies · Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Italy
  31. 1747 AD Mob attack on the Ferrara ghetto (1747) · Ferrara, Italy
  32. 1749 AD Limits on stay of Jews visiting Parma · Parma, Italy
  33. 1751 AD Law forbidding Jews to make contracts · Parma, Italy
  34. 1752 AD Decree of banishment of Jews from Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  35. 1752 AD Equal sanitary laws and end of restriction on Jewish physicians · Mantua, Italy
  36. 1752 AD New liberal charter for Jews in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  37. 1754 AD Mob attack on the Ferrara ghetto (1754) · Ferrara, Italy
  38. 1754 AD Silversmiths' guild maltreats Jews in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  39. 1771 AD Restraints placed on the Jews of Venice · Venice, Italy
  40. 1775 AD Pius VI's "Edict Concerning the Jews" · Papal States, Italy
  41. 1775 AD Restrictive legislation of Pius VI on the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy
  42. 1776 AD Commercial restrictions on Jews enacted in Venice · Venice, Italy
  43. 1777 AD Expulsion of Jews from San Daniele · San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
  44. 1778 AD Jews granted right to vote for municipal council · Florence, Italy
  45. 1779 AD Ancient restrictions repealed and badge abolished · Mantua, Italy
  46. 1779 AD Jews absolutely forbidden to manufacture in Padua · Padua, Italy
  47. 1782 AD Joseph II's Toleranzpatent for Trieste Jews · Trieste, Italy
  48. 1782 AD Sicilian Inquisition abolished · Sicily, Italy
  49. 1784 AD Forcible baptism of two Jewish children in Rome · Rome, Italy
  50. 1784 AD Three Jews murdered in the streets of Rome · Rome, Italy
  51. 1785 AD Ghetto gates of Trieste destroyed · Trieste, Italy
  52. 1790 AD Attacks on Jews at the time of the French Revolution · Florence, Italy
  53. 1790–1792 AD Special taxes repealed under Leopold II · Mantua, Italy
  54. 1792–1835 AD Renewed heavy taxation under Francis I · Mantua, Italy
  55. 1793 AD Arrest of rabbis and synagogue officials in district of Bari · Bari, Italy
  56. 1793 AD Jewish badge reimposed in the Papal States in Italy · Papal States, Italy
  57. 1796 AD Assault on the Verona ghetto as French armies approached · Verona, Italy
  58. c. 1796 AD Civic equality granted at the time of the French Revolution · Urbino, Italy
  59. 1796 AD French decree grants Jews equal rights at Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  60. 1796 AD French remove civil disabilities of Ferrara Jews · Ferrara, Italy
  61. 1796–1798 AD French armies demolish ghetto walls and grant equal rights · Italy
  62. 1796–1814 AD Temporary emancipation under French influence · Alessandria, Italy
  63. 1797 AD Abolition of the ghetto at Cento · Cento, Italy
  64. 1797 AD Emancipation of Venetian Jews and opening of the ghetto · Venice, Italy
  65. 1797 AD French Revolutionary Army emancipates Italy's Jews · Italy
  66. 1797 AD French destroy ghetto gates in Padua · Padua, Italy
  67. 1797 AD Ghetto gates destroyed and Jews allowed to live anywhere in Verona · Verona, Italy
  68. 1797 AD Ghetto gates destroyed under French rule in Ancona · Ancona, Italy
  69. 1797 AD Ghetto gates torn down under French rule · Ferrara, Italy
  70. 1797 AD Ghetto opened and Jews declared citizens under French occupation · Pesaro, Italy
  71. 1797 AD Jews given representation in Verona council of commerce · Verona, Italy
  72. 1797 AD Mob attacks Jewish quarter and ransacks synagogues · Pesaro, Italy
  73. 1797 AD Padua's Jews freed from ghetto residence by the French · Padua, Italy
  74. 1797 AD Period of freedom under French invasion · Mantua, Italy
  75. 1798 AD Anti-Jewish excesses in Urbino during the 1798 reaction · Urbino, Italy
  76. 1798 AD Austrian rule grants privileges to Padua's Jews · Padua, Italy
  77. 1798 AD French grant full citizenship to Jews of Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  78. 1798 AD Ghetto gates torn down · Mantua, Italy
  79. c. 1798 AD Heavy cash levy on Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  80. 1798 AD Jews freed from the ghetto under French annexation · Turin, Italy
  81. 1798 AD Jews of Rome granted equal rights · Rome, Italy
  82. 1798 AD Venetian Jews lose civil equality under Austria · Venice, Italy
  83. 1798–1799 AD Anti-Jewish harassment in Verona after Austrian restoration · Verona, Italy
  84. 1798–1799 AD Napoleonic decrees abolish the ghetto · Asti, Italy
  85. 1799 AD Austro-Russian-Piedmontese government tightens rules on Jews · Turin, Italy
  86. 1799 AD Emancipation of Florentine Jews by the French · Florence, Italy
  87. 1799 AD Fine and restoration of old laws after Austrian return · Ferrara, Italy
  88. 1799 AD Italian Jews forced back into ghettos · Italy
  89. 1799 AD Jewish "revolutionaries" banished from Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  90. 1799 AD Jews restored to former restricted status in Piedmont · Piedmont, Italy
  91. 1799 AD Mob fury against Jews on Austrian entry into Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  92. 1799 AD Restored regimes abolish Jewish liberties · Italy
  93. 1800 AD Jewish freedom restored with French return · Florence, Italy
  94. 1800 AD Napoleon's campaign again brings freedom to Italian Jews · Italy

19th century

  1. 1802 AD Equality of rights restored under the French · Ferrara, Italy
  2. 1803 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Asti · Asti, Italy
  3. 1803 AD Equal rights granted to Jews of Parma · Parma, Italy
  4. 1805 AD Civil equality restored to Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  5. 1809 AD Roman Jews again proclaimed citizens; ghetto left open · Rome, Italy
  6. 1814 AD Austrian restrictions on Jews after return to Austrian rule · Mantua, Italy
  7. 1814 AD Ghetto abolished in Pisa after the Restoration · Pisa, Italy
  8. 1814 AD Ghetto gates opened and Jews allowed to live outside · Florence, Italy
  9. c. 1814 AD Inquisition restored and Jewish rights curtailed in Rome · Rome, Italy
  10. 1814 AD Pius VII allows some Jews to live outside the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy
  11. c. 1814 AD Pius VII restores ghettos and Inquisition · Papal States, Italy
  12. 1814 AD Populace attacks Jews on Austrian entry into Padua · Padua, Italy
  13. c. 1814 AD Professional and military exclusions after grand ducal restoration · Florence, Italy
  14. 1814 AD Venetian Jews lose equality again under Austrian rule · Venice, Italy
  15. 1814 AD Victor Emmanuel I re-enacts anti-Jewish regulations · Kingdom of Sardinia, Italy
  16. 1815 AD Austrian rule restores most rights except public office · Padua, Italy
  17. 1815 AD Ghetto established in Rome · Rome, Italy
  18. c. 1815 AD Ghetto restrictions renewed during the Restoration · Modena, Italy
  19. 1815 AD Jews of surrounding villages allowed to resettle in Parma · Parma, Italy
  20. 1815 AD Pius VII demands removal of Jews from public office · Ferrara, Italy
  21. 1815 AD Restoration of Jewish disabilities in Kingdom of Sardinia · Piedmont, Italy
  22. 1815 AD Restoration of exceptional laws against Jews at Cento · Cento, Italy
  23. 1815 AD Restoration returns old anti-Jewish conditions in Italy · Italy
  24. 1816 AD Jews exempted from wearing the badge · Kingdom of Sardinia, Italy
  25. 1816 AD Jews of Vercelli released from many disabilities · Vercelli, Italy
  26. 1816 AD Victor Emmanuel I lifts badge requirement and trade limits · Turin, Italy
  27. 1819 AD Jewish funerals required to be private · Parma, Italy
  28. 1823–1829 AD Pope Leo XII reinforces anti-Jewish restrictions · Pesaro, Italy
  29. 1823–1831 AD Medieval anti-Jewish edicts renewed under Leo XII and Pius VIII · Rome, Italy
  30. 1824 AD Blood libel in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  31. 1824 AD Riots against the Jews of Mantua (1824) · Mantua, Italy
  32. 1826 AD Forced baptism of Anna Costantini · Ancona, Italy
  33. 1826 AD Ghetto gates restored in Ferrara under Leo XII · Ferrara, Italy
  34. 1826 AD Leo XII restores the ghetto gate in Ancona · Ancona, Italy
  35. 1827 AD Leo XII revives the anti-Jewish edict of 1775 · Papal States, Italy
  36. 1827 AD Renewed restrictions on Ferrara Jews · Ferrara, Italy
  37. 1831 AD Ghetto gates torn down and rights granted in 1831 · Ferrara, Italy
  38. 1831 AD Ghetto gates torn down during the 1831 revolution · Ancona, Italy
  39. 1831–1846 AD Ghetto gates of Rome re-erected under Gregory XVI · Rome, Italy
  40. 1836 AD Expulsion of Risorgimento-linked Jews from Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  41. 1837 AD Alessandria Jews again restricted to the ghetto · Alessandria, Italy
  42. 1837 AD Community punished for Rabbi Reggio's public funeral · Ferrara, Italy
  43. 1842 AD Riots against the Jews of Mantua (1842) · Mantua, Italy
  44. 1843 AD Inquisitor Soliva revives restrictions on Jews · Ancona, Italy
  45. 1845 AD Livorno Jews made eligible to all municipal offices · Livorno, Italy
  46. 1847 AD Pius IX abolishes the Rome ghetto gates and walls · Rome, Italy
  47. 1848 AD Citizenship granted to Jews of Vercelli · Vercelli, Italy
  48. 1848 AD Civil rights granted to the Jews of Alessandria · Alessandria, Italy
  49. 1848 AD Emancipation of Jews in the kingdom of Sardinia · Turin, Italy
  50. 1848 AD Equality granted to Tuscan Jews · Tuscany, Italy
  51. 1848 AD Full citizenship for Jews in Genoa under Sardinian constitution · Genoa, Italy
  52. 1848 AD Ghetto gate pillars destroyed and equality obtained · Ferrara, Italy
  53. 1848 AD Mob attack on Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  54. 1848 AD Piedmont's Jews fully emancipated · Piedmont, Italy
  55. 1848 AD Restrictions on Rome's Jews reestablished · Rome, Italy
  56. 1848 AD Revolution of 1848 brings advantages to Italian Jews · Italy
  57. 1848 AD Revolution of 1848 brings freedom to Jews · Ancona, Italy
  58. 1848–1849 AD Jewish rights restored under the revived Venetian Republic · Venice, Italy
  59. c. 1849 AD Compulsory baptisms after the papal restoration · Senigallia (Sinigaglia), Italy
  60. 1849 AD Jews' rights withdrawn after the pope's restoration · Ferrara, Italy
  61. 1849 AD Return of ghetto confinement and restrictions in Papal States · Rome, Italy
  62. 1849 AD Roman Assembly proclaims full civic equality for Jews · Rome, Italy
  63. 1849 AD Searches of Roman Jewish homes for Church property · Rome, Italy
  64. 1857 AD Ban on leaving the city abolished · Ferrara, Italy
  65. 1858 AD Abduction of Edgar Mortara · Bologna, Italy
  66. 1858 AD Mortara case · Papal States, Italy
  67. 1859 AD Civil and political equality proclaimed in Romagna · Bologna, Italy
  68. 1859 AD Emancipation of the Jews of Tuscany · Tuscany, Italy
  69. 1859 AD Final emancipation of Jews of Parma · Parma, Italy
  70. 1859 AD Full equality granted to the Jews of Modena · Modena, Italy
  71. 1859 AD Jews of Cento receive full citizenship rights · Cento, Italy
  72. 1859 AD Jews of Livorno receive full citizenship · Livorno, Italy
  73. 1859 AD Mortara case: Jewish boy converted in Italy · Italy
  74. 1859–1860 AD Jews of Ferrara freed with Italian unification · Ferrara, Italy
  75. 1859–1870 AD Full emancipation in the kingdom of Italy · Italy
  76. 1860 AD Emancipation of Urbino's Jews on annexation to Italy · Urbino, Italy
  77. 1860 AD Jews of Ancona obtain full religious freedom · Ancona, Italy
  78. c. 1860–1869 AD Mass coercive baptisms in the 1860s · Rome, Italy
  79. 1861 AD Emancipation of the Jews of Modena · Modena, Italy
  80. 1861 AD Emancipation of the Jews of Pesaro · Pesaro, Italy
  81. 1861 AD Italian unification emancipates Jews and ends ghettos · Tuscany, Italy
  82. 1864 AD Kidnapping of Giuseppe Coen in Rome · Rome, Italy
  83. 1866 AD Civic equality restored on annexation to Italy · Urbino, Italy
  84. 1866 AD Full emancipation of the Jews of Padua · Padua, Italy
  85. 1866 AD Full equality of Jews established in Venice · Venice, Italy
  86. 1866 AD Last restrictions on Jews removed in Mantua · Mantua, Italy
  87. 1870 AD Abolition of the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy
  88. 1870 AD Emancipation of Jews in Italy · Italy
  89. 1870 AD Ghettos abolished in Italy · Italy

20th century

  1. 1919 AD Primo Levi born in Turin · Turin, Italy
  2. 1938 AD Anti-Jewish laws applied in Bologna · Bologna, Italy
  3. 1938 AD Italian racial laws strip Jews of citizenship · Italy
  4. 1938 AD Order to deport foreign Jews from Italy · Italy
  5. 1938 AD Racial Laws affect Turin Jews · Turin, Italy
  6. 1938 AD Racial laws applied to Jews of Cesena · Cesena, Italy
  7. 1938 AD Racial laws imposed on the Jews of Trieste · Trieste, Italy
  8. 1938–1943 AD Anti-Jewish laws of the Fascist regime · Alessandria, Italy
  9. 1938–1943 AD Racial laws and exclusion of Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  10. 1939 AD Italian government replaces Trieste Jewish council · Trieste, Italy
  11. 1939 AD Italy passes anti-Jewish legislation · Italy
  12. 1940 AD Internment of foreign Jews at Ferramonti near Cosenza · Ferramonti di Tarsia, Italy
  13. 1940 AD Internment of foreign and some Italian Jews · Italy
  14. c. 1940–1945 AD Deportation of Vercelli Jews during the Holocaust · Vercelli, Italy
  15. 1941 AD Defacing of Trieste synagogue and community headquarters · Trieste, Italy
  16. 1941 AD Desecration of the Scuola grande in Padua · Padua, Italy
  17. 1941 AD Ferrara synagogue devastated by fascists · Ferrara, Italy
  18. 1942 AD Bomb destroys interior of Turin synagogue · Turin, Italy
  19. 1942 AD Fascist squads devastate Trieste temple and assault Jews · Trieste, Italy
  20. 1942 AD Jewish internees conscripted into labor legions · Italy
  21. 1942 AD Over 1,000 Rome Jews arrested and sent to Auschwitz · Rome, Italy
  22. 1943 AD Arrest of Anna Cassuto, Saul Campagnano and Raffaele Cantoni · Florence, Italy
  23. 1943 AD Arrest of Jewish-Christian relief committee members in Florence · Florence, Italy
  24. 1943 AD Arrest of foreign Jewish refugees and Borgo San Dalmazzo camp · Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy
  25. 1943 AD Attack on the Alessandria synagogue and burning of books · Alessandria, Italy
  26. 1943 AD Deportation of Cesena Jews to Auschwitz · Cesena, Italy
  27. 1943 AD Deportation of Jews from Borgo San Dalmazzo to Auschwitz · Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy
  28. 1943 AD Deportation of Turin Jews to Auschwitz · Turin, Italy
  29. 1943 AD Ferrara Jews deported to extermination camps · Ferrara, Italy
  30. 1943 AD First transport from Rome to Auschwitz · Rome, Italy
  31. 1943 AD First violence against Jews in Merano and Lake Maggiore · Merano, Italy
  32. 1943 AD German raid destroys Milan synagogue and captures Jews · Milan, Italy
  33. 1943 AD In his capacity as Higher SS and Police Leader in Trieste, Italy, to which he… · Trieste, Italy
  34. 1943 AD Italian Social Republic declares Jews enemy aliens, orders arrest and confiscation · Italy
  35. 1943 AD Lake Maggiore massacres · Lake Maggiore, Italy
  36. 1943 AD Looting of Jewish community and rabbinical college libraries · Rome, Italy
  37. 1943 AD Looting of the Jewish community archives · Rome, Italy
  38. 1943 AD Meina massacre of Jews · Meina, Italy
  39. 1943 AD Raid on the Roman Ghetto · Rome, Italy
  40. 1943 AD Raids on Florence convents and monasteries sheltering Jews · Florence, Italy
  41. 1943 AD Roundup and deportation of Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  42. 1943 AD Roundup of Jews in Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  43. 1943 AD SS demand for gold from the Roman Jewish community · Rome, Italy
  44. 1943 AD SS raid on the Florence synagogue · Florence, Italy
  45. 1943 AD Sacking of Jewish and Slavic shops in Trieste · Trieste, Italy
  46. 1943 AD Three Jews killed in the streets of Ferrara · Ferrara, Italy
  47. 1943–1944 AD Arrest and deportation of Alessandria Jews · Alessandria, Italy
  48. 1943–1944 AD Concentration camp in Forlì holding mostly Jewish prisoners · Forlì, Italy
  49. 1943–1944 AD Deportation of Jews from the Province of Genoa · Genoa, Italy
  50. 1943–1944 AD Roundups and deportations of Venetian Jews · Venice, Italy
  51. 1943–1944 AD Second camp at Borgo San Dalmazzo reopened for all Jews · Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy
  52. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Bologna Jews to death camps · Bologna, Italy
  53. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Jews from Italy · Italy
  54. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Jews from Milan · Milan, Italy
  55. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Mantuan Jews to death camps · Mantua, Italy
  56. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Padua Jews to extermination camps · Padua, Italy
  57. c. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Pisa Jews to extermination camps · Pisa, Italy
  58. 1943–1945 AD Roundups and deportation of Trieste Jews · Trieste, Italy
  59. 1944 AD Ardeatine Caves massacre in Rome · Rome, Italy
  60. 1944 AD Arrest of patients at the Jewish home for the elderly · Venice, Italy
  61. 1944 AD Deportation of Jews from Saluzzo · Saluzzo, Italy
  62. c. 1944 AD Deportations from Acqui and Casale · Acqui Terme, Italy
  63. 1944 AD Jews executed at the Fosse Ardeatine · Rome, Italy
  64. 1944 AD Nazi massacre at Forlì airport · Forlì, Italy
  65. 1944 AD Nazi massacre at the Pardo-Roques house in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  66. 1945 AD Shooting of six foreign Jews in Cuneo · Cuneo, Italy
  67. 1962 AD New synagogue dedicated in Leghorn · Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
  68. 1982 AD Great Synagogue of Rome attack · Rome, Italy
  69. 1984 AD Italian Constitutional Court repeals compulsory Jewish community membership · Italy
  70. 1985 AD Murder of Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro · Italy
  71. 1991–1992 AD Desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Italy · Italy
  72. 1992 AD Jewish stores in Rome plastered with yellow stars · Rome, Italy

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