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What happened to the Jews in Rome

112 events, 139 BC to 1992 AD

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 expels Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  3. 31 AD Jews allowed to return to Rome after Sejanus's death · Rome, Italy
  4. 41–53 AD Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  5. 49 AD Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  6. 49–50 AD Claudius forbids Jewish religious services in Rome · Rome, Italy
  7. 50 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  8. 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

5th century

  1. c. 493–526 AD Mob attack on Jews and synagogue arson in Rome under Theodoric · Rome, Italy

6th century

  1. 590–604 AD Pope Gregory I moves against Jewish slave-trading · Rome, Italy

11th century

  1. 1021 AD Persecution in Rome after an earthquake · Rome, Italy

12th century

  1. 1179 AD Third Council of the Lateran · Rome, 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. c. 1245 AD Burning of the Talmud in Rome · Rome, Italy
  4. 1257 AD Jewish badge imposed in Rome · Rome, Italy
  5. 1267 AD Bull Turbato Corde empowers Inquisition against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  6. c. 1268 AD Destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Rome · Rome, Italy
  7. 1270 AD Desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Rome · Rome, Italy
  8. 1278 AD Nicholas III bull urges Inquisition against converts · Rome, Italy
  9. c. 1294–1303 AD Boniface VIII's terror: denunciations and burning of Rome's rabbi · Rome, Italy
  10. c. 1294–1303 AD Jews of Rome placed under merchant gilds' jurisdiction · Rome, Italy
  11. 1298 AD Judicial murder of R. Elijah de' Pomi · Rome, Italy

14th century

  1. 1312 AD Coronation-tax levied on Rome paid only by Jews · Rome, Italy
  2. 1320 AD Expulsion order and temporary exile of Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  3. 1322 AD Public burning of the Talmud in Rome · Rome, Italy
  4. 1322 AD Riot in Rome after the Talmud burning · Rome, Italy
  5. c. 1349 AD City statutes regulate Jewish taxes and costume in Rome · Rome, Italy
  6. 1360 AD Roman statutes prescribe red Jewish dress · Rome, Italy

15th century

  1. 1429 AD Martin V's bull easing restrictions on Jews · Rome, Italy
  2. c. 1431–1447 AD Eugenius IV's severe anti-Jewish bull · Rome, Italy
  3. 1442 AD Eugenius IV's restrictive bull of 1442 · Rome, Italy
  4. 1447–1455 AD Nicholas V renews anti-Jewish legislation · Rome, Italy
  5. 1450 AD Capistrano's disputation at Rome · Rome, Italy
  6. 1455 AD Riot against Jewish delegation on accession of Calixtus III · Rome, Italy
  7. 1487 AD Innocent VIII's bull against the Maranos and arrests in Rome · Rome, Italy
  8. c. 1500 AD Walling-in of the Rome ghetto under Paul IV · Rome, Italy

16th century

  1. 1522–1523 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Rome under Hadrian VI · Rome, Italy
  2. 1523 AD Revival of restrictive slaughtering law for Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  3. 1542 AD Cornelio of Montalcino burned at Rome · Rome, Italy
  4. 1543 AD Monte di pietà established against Jewish moneylenders · Rome, Italy
  5. 1550 AD Convert to Judaism Cornelio of Montalcino burned at the stake · Rome, Italy
  6. 1553 AD Accusation against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  7. 1553 AD Talmud burned in Rome on Rosh Hashanah · Rome, Italy
  8. 1554 AD Violence against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  9. 1555 AD Blood libel suspicion after murder of a child and incitement by convert · Rome, Italy
  10. 1555 AD Closure of synagogues and forced sale of property in Rome · Rome, Italy
  11. 1555 AD Papal bull · Rome, Italy
  12. 1555 AD Papal bull Cum nimis absurdum · Rome, Italy
  13. 1555–1559 AD Paul IV's restrictions on Roman Jews · Rome, Italy
  14. 1556 AD Jews permitted to practise most handicrafts · Rome, Italy
  15. 1556 AD Tax for closed synagogues · Rome, Italy
  16. 1557 AD Ashkenazic synagogue closed and fined · Rome, Italy
  17. 1557 AD Confiscation of all Hebrew books in Rome · Rome, Italy
  18. 1561 AD Pius IV revokes most of Paul IV's anti-Jewish enactments · Rome, Italy
  19. 1564 AD Talmud allowed to be printed again · Rome, Italy
  20. 1572 AD Troops attack the Rome ghetto at Passover · Rome, Italy
  21. 1572–1585 AD Gregory XIII regulates compulsory conversionist sermons · Rome, Italy
  22. 1577 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons decreed · Rome, Italy
  23. 1581 AD Inquisition given jurisdiction over Jews · Rome, Italy
  24. 1581 AD Law on confiscating the Talmud repealed · Rome, Italy
  25. 1583 AD Violence against Jews in Rome · Rome, Italy
  26. 1584 AD Minimum attendance set for conversionist sermons · Rome, Italy
  27. 1592 AD Clement VIII bans social and business contact with Christians · Rome, Italy
  28. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rome · Rome, Italy
  29. 1593–1601 AD Talmudic works handed to Inquisition and burned · Rome, Italy
  30. 1599 AD Brief against growth of the Jewish community · Rome, Italy

17th century

  1. 1603 AD Ghetto gate regulation · Rome, Italy
  2. 1604 AD Annual tax of 800 scudi for the expelled · Rome, Italy
  3. c. 1630–1634 AD Jews made to pay annuity to convert Masserano · Rome, Italy
  4. 1639 AD Children of Fullo Serotino seized and baptized · Rome, Italy
  5. 1668 AD Compulsory foot-races abolished · Rome, Italy
  6. c. 1676–1689 AD Compulsory baptisms under Innocent XI · Rome, Italy
  7. 1682 AD Suppression of Jewish loan banks in Rome · Rome, Italy
  8. c. 1700–1720 AD Blood libel in Rome under Clement XI · Rome, Italy
  9. c. 1700–1720 AD Clement XI ends humiliating carnival processions · Rome, Italy
  10. c. 1700–1720 AD Compulsory baptisms under Clement XI · Rome, Italy

18th century

  1. c. 1730–1740 AD Ban on epitaphs on Jewish tombs repeated · Rome, Italy
  2. 1775 AD Restrictive legislation of Pius VI on the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy
  3. 1784 AD Forcible baptism of two Jewish children in Rome · Rome, Italy
  4. 1784 AD Three Jews murdered in the streets of Rome · Rome, Italy
  5. c. 1798 AD Heavy cash levy on Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  6. 1798 AD Jews of Rome granted equal rights · Rome, Italy

19th century

  1. 1809 AD Roman Jews again proclaimed citizens; ghetto left open · Rome, Italy
  2. c. 1814 AD Inquisition restored and Jewish rights curtailed in Rome · Rome, Italy
  3. 1814 AD Pius VII allows some Jews to live outside the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy
  4. 1815 AD Ghetto established in Rome · Rome, Italy
  5. 1823–1831 AD Medieval anti-Jewish edicts renewed under Leo XII and Pius VIII · Rome, Italy
  6. 1831–1846 AD Ghetto gates of Rome re-erected under Gregory XVI · Rome, Italy
  7. 1847 AD Pius IX abolishes the Rome ghetto gates and walls · Rome, Italy
  8. 1848 AD Mob attack on Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  9. 1848 AD Restrictions on Rome's Jews reestablished · Rome, Italy
  10. 1849 AD Return of ghetto confinement and restrictions in Papal States · Rome, Italy
  11. 1849 AD Roman Assembly proclaims full civic equality for Jews · Rome, Italy
  12. 1849 AD Searches of Roman Jewish homes for Church property · Rome, Italy
  13. c. 1860–1869 AD Mass coercive baptisms in the 1860s · Rome, Italy
  14. 1864 AD Kidnapping of Giuseppe Coen in Rome · Rome, Italy
  15. 1870 AD Abolition of the Rome ghetto · Rome, Italy

20th century

  1. 1942 AD Over 1,000 Rome Jews arrested and sent to Auschwitz · Rome, Italy
  2. 1943 AD First transport from Rome to Auschwitz · Rome, Italy
  3. 1943 AD Looting of Jewish community and rabbinical college libraries · Rome, Italy
  4. 1943 AD Looting of the Jewish community archives · Rome, Italy
  5. 1943 AD Raid on the Roman Ghetto · Rome, Italy
  6. 1943 AD Roundup and deportation of Rome's Jews · Rome, Italy
  7. 1943 AD SS demand for gold from the Roman Jewish community · Rome, Italy
  8. 1944 AD Ardeatine Caves massacre in Rome · Rome, Italy
  9. 1944 AD Jews executed at the Fosse Ardeatine · Rome, Italy
  10. 1982 AD Great Synagogue of Rome attack · Rome, Italy
  11. 1992 AD Jewish stores in Rome plastered with yellow stars · Rome, Italy

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