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Place in Latvia

What happened to the Jews in Courland

46 events, 1309 AD to 1943 AD

14th century

  1. 1309 AD Livonian Order bars Jews from Courland · Courland, Latvia

16th century

  1. 1561 AD Ban on Jews in Livonia after the Order's surrender to Poland · Courland, Latvia
  2. 1561 AD Treaty bars Jews from commerce and leasing taxes · Courland, Latvia

17th century

  1. c. 1648 AD Expulsion of Jews from Mitau after the Cossack uprising · Jelgava (Mitau), Latvia
  2. 1648–1654 AD Expulsion of Jews from Courland during Cossack uprising · Courland, Latvia
  3. 1686 AD Neu-Subbat constitution forbids Jews to live in the town · Subate (Neu-Subbat), Latvia
  4. 1692–1699 AD Curtailment of Jewish leasing and trading privileges in Courland · Courland, Latvia

18th century

  1. 1714 AD Duke Ferdinand orders Jews out of Courland · Courland, Latvia
  2. 1717 AD Annual tax on Jews in the province of Piltene · Piltene, Latvia
  3. 1727–1738 AD Expulsion decrees in the province of Piltene · Piltene, Latvia
  4. 1741 AD Courland knights attempt to expel Jews from Mitau · Jelgava (Mitau), Latvia
  5. 1760 AD Diet restricts Lithuanian and Polish Jews' stay in Mitau · Jelgava (Mitau), Latvia
  6. 1760 AD Expulsion of Jews from the duchy of Courland · Courland, Latvia
  7. 1795 AD Jews in Piltene allowed to join merchant guilds under Russian rule · Piltene, Latvia
  8. c. 1796–1801 AD Citizenship and municipal rights granted to Jews of Courland · Courland, Latvia
  9. 1797–1799 AD Russia permits Jews to reside in Courland · Courland, Latvia
  10. 1799 AD Double tax imposed on Jewish burghers and merchants in Courland · Courland, Latvia
  11. 1799 AD Jewish settlement in Bauska permitted but restricted to a suburb · Bauska, Latvia
  12. 1799 AD Jews permitted to settle in Liepaja · Liepāja, Latvia
  13. 1799 AD Law granting citizenship and residence rights to Jews of Courland · Courland, Latvia

19th century

  1. 1804–1806 AD Citizenship rights secured for Jews of Courland · Courland, Latvia
  2. 1805 AD Alexander I extends privileges of Courland Jews · Courland, Latvia
  3. 1807 AD Double poll and guild taxes on Jews abolished · Courland, Latvia
  4. c. 1820–1829 AD Residence restriction on Bauska Jews lifted · Bauska, Latvia
  5. 1829 AD Courland removed from the Pale of Settlement · Courland, Latvia
  6. 1829 AD Czar sanctions residence restrictions on Jews in Courland · Courland, Latvia
  7. 1829 AD Proposed deportation to Siberia of unregistered Jews of Courland and Livonia · Courland, Latvia
  8. 1844 AD Abolition of kahals in the Russian Empire · Courland, Latvia
  9. 1890 AD Passport Regulations restrict Jewish residence in Courland · Courland, Latvia
  10. 1893 AD Jewish families ordered out of Riga and Libau · Riga, Latvia
  11. 1895 AD Expulsion of Jacob Thal from Autzhoff estate · Auce (Autzhoff), Latvia

20th century

  1. c. 1914–1918 AD Forced evacuation of Bauska Jews by Russian military · Bauska, Latvia
  2. 1915 AD Expulsion of Jews from western Courland · Courland, Latvia
  3. c. 1919 AD Pogrom in Jelgava organized by local Germans · Jelgava, Latvia
  4. 1940 AD Soviet nationalization and exile of Jewish property owners in Liepaja · Liepāja, Latvia
  5. 1940–1941 AD Elimination of Jewish life and trade under Soviet rule · Bauska, Latvia
  6. 1941 AD Anti-Jewish excesses and mass arrests after German occupation of Liepaja · Liepāja, Latvia
  7. 1941 AD Execution of the remaining Jews of Bauska · Bauska, Latvia
  8. 1941 AD Fifteen hundred Jews murdered at Mitau · Jelgava (Mitau), Latvia
  9. 1941 AD Liepāja massacres · Liepāja, Latvia
  10. 1941 AD Mass murder of Jews in Jelgava by Einsatzkommando 2 and Latvian police · Jelgava, Latvia
  11. 1941 AD Murder of 3,000 Jews at the Schkeden lighthouse · Liepāja, Latvia
  12. 1941 AD Murder of 3,500 Jews in Liepaja in December 1941 · Liepāja, Latvia
  13. 1941 AD Murder of 50 Jews of Bauska by Latvian police · Bauska, Latvia
  14. 1942 AD Killing of 400 Jews in Liepaja in February 1942 · Liepāja, Latvia
  15. 1942–1943 AD Liepaja ghetto established and liquidated · Liepāja, Latvia

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