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Place in Latvia

What happened to the Jews in Riga

36 events, 1593 AD to 1998 AD

16th century

  1. 1593 AD Royal act exempts Riga from Jewish residence · Riga, Latvia
  2. 1596 AD Royal decree forbids officials and nobles to trade with Jews · Riga, Latvia

17th century

  1. 1612 AD Arrest of Jews under royal order · Riga, Latvia
  2. 1621 AD Swedish treaty bars Jews from sojourn in Livonia · Riga, Latvia
  3. 1645 AD Twenty Jews arrested on false fur-trading charge · Riga, Latvia
  4. 1666 AD Jews required to lodge only at the Jewish inn · Riga, Latvia

18th century

  1. 1709 AD Jews barred from entering Riga during siege preparations · Riga, Latvia
  2. 1724–1725 AD Jews compelled to live in re-established Jewish inn · Riga, Latvia
  3. 1727 AD Expulsion order for Jews of Riga · Riga, Latvia
  4. 1742 AD Elizabeth's expulsion decree applied to Jews of Riga · Riga, Latvia
  5. 1744 AD Expulsion of David's children and servant from Riga · Riga, Latvia
  6. 1765 AD Order forbidding Riga residents to lodge Jews · Riga, Latvia
  7. 1765 AD Temporary sojourn of Jews allowed in Riga · Riga, Latvia
  8. 1770–1771 AD Expulsion of Jews from Riga during plague · Riga, Latvia
  9. 1780 AD Deportation order for forty-three Jews from Riga · Riga, Latvia
  10. 1785 AD Jews ordered to leave Riga within six months · Riga, Latvia
  11. 1788 AD Restrictive ordinance limiting Jewish residence in Riga · Riga, Latvia
  12. c. 1796–1801 AD Censorship of Jewish books established in Riga · Riga, Latvia

19th century

  1. 1813 AD Jews of Sloka allowed to settle in Riga · Riga, Latvia
  2. 1822 AD Jews permitted to engage in crafts · Riga, Latvia
  3. 1841 AD Jews allowed to register as city inhabitants · Riga, Latvia
  4. 1841 AD Law of 1841 restricting Jewish rights in Riga · Riga, Latvia
  5. 1858 AD Ban on Jews living within Riga's walls lapses · Riga, Latvia
  6. 1858 AD Right to purchase real estate granted to Riga Jews · Riga, Latvia
  7. 1893 AD Jewish families ordered out of Riga and Libau · Riga, Latvia

20th century

  1. 1921 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Riga · Riga, Latvia
  2. 1941 AD Burning of the Riga synagogues · Riga, Latvia
  3. 1941 AD December 9 German SS and police units and their Latvian police auxiliaries… · Riga, Latvia
  4. 1941 AD Ghetto established in Riga, Latvia · Riga, Latvia
  5. 1941 AD Nationalization of Jewish commerce under Soviet rule · Riga, Latvia
  6. 1941–1943 AD Riga Ghetto · Riga, Latvia
  7. 1942 AD Dünamünde Action · Riga, Latvia
  8. 1943 AD Aktion and liquidation of the Riga ghetto · Riga, Latvia
  9. 1960 AD Fine on Riga Jewish congregation over matzah · Riga, Latvia
  10. 1964 AD Jewish cemetery in Riga declared a general cemetery · Riga, Latvia
  11. 1998 AD 1998 Riga bombing · Riga, Latvia

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