Place in Italy

What happened to the Jews in Papal States

27 events, 1257 AD to 1858 AD

13th century

  1. 1257 AD Alexander IV imposes the badge in the Papal States · Papal States, Italy

15th century

  1. 1442 AD Eugenius IV introduces harsh anti-Jewish measures · Papal States, Italy
  2. 1447 AD Nicholas V bans Jewish moneylending at interest · Papal States, Italy

16th century

  1. 1550–1555 AD Tax on synagogues of the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  2. 1554 AD Papal bull introducing censorship of Hebrew books · Papal States, Italy
  3. 1555 AD Papal bull Cum nimis absurdum · Rome, Italy
  4. 1556 AD Paul IV orders burning of Jews and Maranos from Portugal · Papal States, Italy
  5. 1559 AD Talmud placed on the Index Expurgatorius · Papal States, Italy
  6. 1565 AD Pius IV orders the Talmud stripped of its name · Papal States, Italy
  7. c. 1566–1572 AD Pius V expels Jews from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  8. 1569 AD Expulsion of Jews from Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  9. 1569 AD Pope Pius V expels Jews from the papal states, except for Ancona and Rome · Papal States, Italy
  10. 1569–1570 AD Papal expulsion of Jews from Italian and French territory · Papal States, Italy and elsewhere
  11. 1575–1585 AD Gregory XIII's renewed attack on the Talmud · Papal States, Italy
  12. 1586 AD Sixtus V abrogates expulsion decree · Papal States, Italy
  13. 1586 AD Sixtus V bans Jews from the Papal States and the Talmud · Papal States, Italy
  14. 1593 AD Clement VIII bull expelling Jews from the pontifical states · Papal States, Italy
  15. 1593 AD Clement VIII expels Jews from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  16. 1593 AD Clement VIII renews ban on reading or owning the Talmud · Papal States, Italy

17th century

  1. 1641 AD Jewish taxes raised to 150,000 scudi · Papal States, Italy
  2. 1659 AD Bull of general banishment from the Papal States · Papal States, Italy

18th century

  1. 1731 AD Hebrew books confiscated in the Papal States · Papal States, Italy
  2. 1775 AD Pius VI's "Edict Concerning the Jews" · Papal States, Italy
  3. 1793 AD Jewish badge reimposed in the Papal States in Italy · Papal States, Italy

19th century

  1. c. 1814 AD Pius VII restores ghettos and Inquisition · Papal States, Italy
  2. 1827 AD Leo XII revives the anti-Jewish edict of 1775 · Papal States, Italy
  3. 1858 AD Mortara case · Papal States, Italy

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