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What happened to the Jews in Russian Empire

81 events, 1727 AD to 1942 AD

18th century

  1. 1727 AD Edict expelling the Jews from Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  2. 1738 AD Baruch Leibov burned at the stake for proselytizing · Russian Empire (several countries)
  3. 1742 AD Elizabeth of Russia issues a decree of expulsion of all the Jews out of Ukraine · Russian Empire (several countries)
  4. 1748 AD Court physician Sanchez forced out for adhering to Judaism · Russian Empire (several countries)
  5. 1791 AD Decree barring Jewish merchants from settling in inner Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  6. 1791 AD Establishment of the Pale of Settlement · Russian Empire (several countries)
  7. 1794 AD Double taxation of Jews decreed under Catherine II · Russian Empire (several countries)
  8. 1794–1817 AD Double taxation of Russian Jews, then special Jewish taxes · Russian Empire (several countries)
  9. 1796 AD Double guild license payment for Jewish merchants · Russian Empire (several countries)

19th century

  1. 1801 AD Regulation ordering Jewish merchants and tradesmen into the cities · Russian Empire (several countries)
  2. 1802 AD Senate decree on Jewish eligibility for municipal offices · Russian Empire (several countries)
  3. 1804 AD 1804 enactment on Jewish artisans' residence outside the Pale · Russian Empire (several countries)
  4. 1804 AD Enactment of 1804 begins political emancipation of Russian Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  5. c. 1804 AD Officials push forcible baptism of Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  6. 1804 AD Regulations of 1804 barring Jews from distilling, leasing and village residence · Russian Empire (several countries)
  7. 1807–1809 AD Ukase of 1807 ordering gradual removal of Jews from villages · Russian Empire (several countries)
  8. 1809 AD Repeal of the 1807 removal ukase · Russian Empire (several countries)
  9. 1819 AD Jewish distillers allowed to live in interior Russia (1819) · Russian Empire (several countries)
  10. 1821–1871 AD First Odessa pogroms · Russian Empire (several countries)
  11. 1824 AD Russian ban on foreign Jews and order of expulsion · Russian Empire (several countries)
  12. 1825 AD Decree limiting Jews in the western frontier zone to property owners · Russian Empire (several countries)
  13. 1825–1855 AD Nicholas I's flood of anti-Jewish legislation · Russian Empire (several countries)
  14. 1827 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  15. 1827 AD Jewish distillers' residence rights extended (1827) · Russian Empire (several countries) and elsewhere
  16. 1827 AD Jews made liable to personal military conscription · Russian Empire (several countries)
  17. 1827 AD Nicholas I imposes army service on Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  18. 1827 AD Twenty-five-year military conscription of Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  19. 1827–1856 AD Conscription of Jewish children into cantonist units in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  20. 1833 AD Russia lets Asian Jewish traders live outside the Pale · Russian Empire (several countries)
  21. 1835 AD 1835 law grants Jews equal municipal electoral rights · Russian Empire (several countries)
  22. 1835 AD Suspension of removals of Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  23. 1835 AD Ukase of 1835 limits rights of Jewish artisans in the interior · Russian Empire (several countries)
  24. 1836 AD One-third limit on Jews in western municipal offices · Russian Empire (several countries)
  25. 1839 AD 1839 law restricts Jews in municipal government · Russian Empire (several countries)
  26. 1842 AD Asian Jewish traders allowed at Orenburg and Troitsk fairs · Russian Empire (several countries)
  27. 1843 AD Imperial decree removing Jews from the Prussian and Austrian border zone · Russian Empire (several countries)
  28. 1843 AD Jews ordered out of the Prussian and Austrian border zone · Russian Empire (several countries)
  29. 1844 AD Asian Jewish traders allowed at Nizhni-Novgorod fair · Russian Empire (several countries)
  30. 1844 AD Repeal of oppressive rules on Jewish agricultural colonies · Russian Empire (several countries)
  31. 1845 AD Russian restriction of Hebrew printing to Wilna and Slavuta · Russian Empire (several countries)
  32. 1853 AD Jewish communities authorized to seize passportless Jews as recruits · Russian Empire (several countries)
  33. 1853–1860 AD Accusations of kidnapping against Jews in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  34. 1854–1855 AD Intensified Jewish conscription during the Crimean War · Russian Empire (several countries)
  35. 1856 AD Abolition of the cantonist system · Russian Empire (several countries)
  36. 1856 AD Ukase banning distinctive Jewish dress · Russian Empire (several countries)
  37. 1859–1865 AD Residence rights beyond the Pale granted to some Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  38. 1865 AD Artisans granted unrestricted residence in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  39. 1865 AD Law of 1865 permits Jewish artisans to settle in the interior · Russian Empire (several countries)
  40. 1865 AD Ukase allowing Jewish artisans to reside anywhere in the empire · Russian Empire (several countries)
  41. 1870 AD 1870 municipal law limits Jews to one-third of council seats · Russian Empire (several countries)
  42. 1875 AD Law restricting who may teach in the ḥeder · Russian Empire (several countries)
  43. 1881 AD Anti-Jewish riots of 1881 · Russian Empire (several countries)
  44. c. 1881 AD Anti-Jewish uprisings in Russia in the early 1880s · Russian Empire (several countries)
  45. c. 1881 AD May Laws restrict Jews in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  46. 1881 AD Outbreak of violence against Jews in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  47. 1881 AD Russia enacts the May Laws · Russian Empire (several countries)
  48. 1881–1884 AD Pogrom in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  49. c. 1881–1894 AD Removal of Jews from the fifty-verst boundary zone · Russian Empire (several countries)
  50. 1882–1917 AD May Laws · Russian Empire (several countries)
  51. 1887 AD Jews in villages forbidden to move between villages · Russian Empire (several countries)
  52. 1887 AD Quotas on Jewish students and other civil disabilities · Russian Empire (several countries)
  53. 1887 AD Russian Ministry of Education imposes percentage quotas on Jewish students · Russian Empire (several countries)
  54. 1892 AD Jews excluded from municipal elections and offices · Russian Empire (several countries)
  55. 1892 AD Rule treating emigrating Jews as having abandoned Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  56. 1893 AD Law allowing anyone to run a ḥeder for a three-ruble tax · Russian Empire (several countries)
  57. 1893–1894 AD Order to enforce expulsion of Jews from unauthorized localities · Russian Empire (several countries)
  58. 1896 AD Ban on Hebrew and Yiddish in business accounts · Russian Empire (several countries)
  59. 1896 AD Government liquor monopoly ruins Jewish tavern-keepers · Russian Empire (several countries)

20th century

  1. 1903 AD Ban on Zionist meetings · Russian Empire (several countries)
  2. 1903 AD Kishinev massacre · Russian Empire (several countries)
  3. 1903–1906 AD Second Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire · Russian Empire (several countries)
  4. 1904 AD Anti-Jewish riots during the Russo-Japanese war mobilization · Russian Empire (several countries)
  5. 1904 AD Decree of 1904 eases residence restrictions · Russian Empire (several countries)
  6. 1905 AD Numerus clausus abolished during the 1905 Revolution · Russian Empire (several countries)
  7. c. 1906 AD Numerus clausus restored in Russia after the Revolution's suppression · Russian Empire (several countries)
  8. 1911 AD Numerus clausus extended to external Jewish students in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  9. 1917 AD Jews granted full rights in Russia · Russian Empire (several countries)
  10. 1917 AD Pogroms during the Russian Revolution kill up to 200,000 Jews · Russian Empire (several countries)
  11. 1917 AD The Pale of Settlement is abolished, and Jews get equal rights · Russian Empire (several countries)
  12. 1917 AD White Terror (Russia) · Russian Empire (several countries)
  13. 1942 AD Wehrmacht general Walter von Reichenau dies · Russian Empire (several countries)

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