Jistory

Place in Italy

What happened to the Jews in Sicily

49 events, 590 AD to 1782 AD

6th century

  1. c. 590–604 AD Bishop of Palermo seizes synagogue and converts it to a church · Palermo, Italy
  2. 598 AD Bishop Victor seizes Palermo synagogue and hospice · Palermo, Italy
  3. 598 AD Conversion of Jews in Agrigento under Gregory the Great · Agrigento, Italy

9th century

  1. 887–888 AD Saracen governor of Sicily imposes donkey sign and yellow belts on Jews · Sicily, Italy

13th century

  1. 1220 AD Conversions of Palermo Jews after persecution · Palermo, Italy
  2. 1221–1222 AD Frederick II orders badge and beards for Jews of Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  3. 1224 AD Frederick II grants Sicilian Inquisition a third of Jewish confiscations · Sicily, Italy
  4. 1254 AD Jewish revenues in Agrigento taxed for the church · Agrigento, Italy
  5. 1296 AD Council of Piazza bars Jewish physicians from treating Christians · Piazza Armerina, Italy

14th century

  1. 1312 AD Frederick II revokes Cassaro expulsion decree · Palermo, Italy
  2. 1312 AD Order confining Jews to a ghetto outside the city wall · Palermo, Italy
  3. 1339 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Palermo · Palermo, Italy
  4. 1347 AD Compulsory stable-cleaning by Jews abolished · Sicily, Italy
  5. 1347 AD Jews of Messina executed on false ritual murder charge · Messina, Italy
  6. 1366 AD Ban on external decoration of synagogues · Sicily, Italy
  7. 1366 AD Decorated synagogues pulled down · Sicily, Italy
  8. 1369 AD Jewish badge ordered in Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  9. 1392 AD Ghetto established in Ghettos · Sicily, Italy
  10. 1392 AD Order to confine Jews to ghettos · Sicily, Italy
  11. 1392 AD Persecutions in San Giuliano, Catania and Syracuse · Erice (San Giuliano), Italy
  12. 1393 AD Ban on funeral decorations · Sicily, Italy
  13. 1397 AD Agrigento Jews compelled to equip soldiers for King Martin I · Agrigento, Italy

15th century

  1. 1402 AD Marsala Jews' appeal against burdens granted · Marsala, Italy
  2. 1415 AD Expulsion of the Jews of Vizzini · Vizzini, Italy
  3. 1428 AD Decree compelling Jews to attend conversionist sermons · Sicily, Italy
  4. 1430 AD Conversionist sermon decree repealed · Sicily, Italy
  5. 1430–1431 AD Alfonso V repeals ordinances unfavorable to Jews · Sicily, Italy
  6. 1449 AD Nicolas V orders death for Jewish apostates in Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  7. 1450 AD Jews allowed to practise medicine and live outside the ghetto · Palermo, Italy
  8. 1451 AD Jews of Sicily compelled to pay inquisitor's expenses · Palermo, Italy
  9. 1452 AD Jews placed under secular jurisdiction · Palermo, Italy
  10. 1471 AD Badge requirement practically dispensed with · Palermo, Italy
  11. 1473–1474 AD Inquisitor's trials of Palermo Jews for blasphemy · Palermo, Italy
  12. 1474 AD Anti-Jewish riots throughout Sicily · Sicily, Italy
  13. 1474 AD Massacre in La Giudecca · Modica, Italy
  14. 1474 AD Persecution of Jews in Modica · Modica, Italy
  15. 1475 AD Palermo Jews pay to silence false accusation · Palermo, Italy
  16. 1475 AD Persecution of Jews in Noto and Caltagirone · Noto, Italy
  17. 1476–1477 AD Closure of Jewish school and diversion of Anello bequest · Agrigento, Italy
  18. 1477 AD Ferdinand and Isabella confirm the 1224 Sicilian law · Spain and elsewhere
  19. 1487 AD Persecution of Jews in Syracuse · Syracuse, Italy
  20. 1491 AD Killing of Rabbi Biton at Castiglione · Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy
  21. 1492 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Messina and Sicily · Messina, Italy
  22. 1492 AD Sicily and Sardinia expel Jews under Spanish rule · Sicily, Italy
  23. 1493 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily · Sicily, Italy

16th century

  1. 1511 AD Violence against Jews in Palermo · Palermo, Italy

18th century

  1. 1740 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily lifted formally · Sicily, Italy
  2. 1740 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sicily lifted in practice · Sicily, Italy
  3. 1782 AD Sicilian Inquisition abolished · Sicily, Italy

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