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What happened to the Jews in Portugal

92 events, 1140 AD to 1910 AD

Regions in Portugal

Cities, towns and sites in Portugal

Timeline

12th century

  1. c. 1140 AD Anti-Jewish legislation in charters of Santarém and Beja · Santarém, Portugal

13th century

  1. 1211 AD Coimbra Cortes bar baptized Jews from returning to Judaism · Portugal
  2. c. 1223 AD Navy tax imposed on Portuguese Jews · Portugal

14th century

  1. 1325 AD Badge and dress law enforced against Jews under Affonso IV · Portugal
  2. 1325 AD Évora Jews compelled to wear yellow shield of David badge · Évora, Portugal
  3. c. 1325–1357 AD Affonso IV restricts Jewish emigration · Portugal
  4. 1350 AD Jews accused of spreading the Black Death in Portugal · Portugal
  5. 1350 AD Jews blamed for the plague in Portugal · Portugal
  6. 1373 AD Castilian army kills Jews and sacks the Rua Nova in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  7. c. 1383 AD Exclusion of Jews from positions of trust under John I · Lisbon, Portugal
  8. 1386 AD Jews of Porto assigned to Victoria and S. Miguel streets · Porto, Portugal
  9. 1392 AD Confiscation of Jewish property in Évora synagogues · Évora, Portugal
  10. 1395 AD Attack on the Jews of Coimbra led by clergy · Coimbra, Portugal

15th century

  1. 1433–1438 AD King Duarte's policy of separating Jews from Christians · Portugal
  2. c. 1449 AD Attacks on Jews in Lisbon after fish-market incident · Lisbon, Portugal
  3. 1455 AD Côrtes of Lisbon demand restrictions on Jews · Lisbon, Portugal
  4. 1461 AD Cortes of Santarém bans silk clothing for Jews · Santarém, Portugal
  5. 1468 AD Cortes of Santarém orders Jewish badge and Jewish quarter residence · Santarém, Portugal
  6. c. 1482 AD Lisbon city council orders Spanish Jewish refugees out · Lisbon, Portugal
  7. 1482 AD Lisbon mob plunders and destroys Jewish property · Lisbon, Portugal
  8. 1487 AD Porto council opposes admission of Spanish Jewish refugees · Porto, Portugal
  9. 1491 AD Immigrant Jewish houses in Porto marked with letter P · Porto, Portugal
  10. 1492 AD Spanish Jewish refugees driven from Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  11. 1492 AD Spanish Jewish refugees enslaved by John II in Portugal · Portugal
  12. 1496 AD Expulsion of Jews from Portugal · Portugal
  13. 1496–1497 AD Expulsion decree and forced conversions of Portuguese Jews affecting Évora · Évora, Portugal
  14. 1496–1497 AD Expulsion of Jews from Portugal and forced conversion at Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  15. 1497 AD Forced conversion of the Jews of Portugal · Portugal
  16. 1497 AD Forced conversions of Portuguese Jews, including Coimbra · Coimbra, Portugal
  17. 1497 AD Forcible baptism of Jewish children in Portugal · Portugal
  18. 1497 AD Hebrew books banned for New Christians · Portugal
  19. 1499 AD Business ban and emigration ban on New Christians · Portugal
  20. 1499 AD Portugal forbids Jews to emigrate without royal permission · Portugal

16th century

  1. 1503 AD Riot against New Christians in Rua Nova · Lisbon, Portugal
  2. 1505 AD Riots against anusim in Évora · Évora, Portugal
  3. 1506 AD Lisbon massacre · Lisbon, Portugal
  4. 1507 AD New Christians permitted to leave Portugal · Portugal
  5. 1508 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal · Portugal
  6. 1521 AD Emigration of New Christians forbidden again · Portugal
  7. 1528 AD Attacks on New Christians across Portugal · Portugal
  8. c. 1528 AD Maranos of Gouvea falsely accused of desecrating image · Gouveia, Portugal
  9. 1531 AD Attacks on New Christians after Santarém earthquake · Santarém, Portugal
  10. 1531 AD Inquisition formally established in Portugal · Portugal
  11. 1531–1547 AD Establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition · Portugal
  12. 1532 AD Portugal bans emigration of Neo-Christians · Portugal
  13. 1535–1538 AD Portugal renews emigration ban and arrests Maranos · Portugal
  14. 1537 AD John III orders Jews to wear badges · Lisbon, Portugal
  15. 1540 AD First Portuguese auto-da-fé in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  16. 1540 AD First auto-da-fé in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  17. 1541 AD Inquisition tribunal of Coimbra prosecutes Conversos · Coimbra, Portugal
  18. 1542 AD Inquisition tribunal established in Évora · Évora, Portugal
  19. 1543 AD Auto-da-fé in Covilhã · Covilhã, Portugal
  20. 1543 AD Inquisition tribunal introduced in Porto · Porto, Portugal
  21. 1557 AD Portuguese edict forbidding Maranos to leave Portugal · Portugal
  22. 1579 AD Inquisitors granted right to confiscate property · Portugal
  23. 1590 AD Estevainha Gomes of Faro burned by the Inquisition · Lisbon, Portugal

17th century

  1. 1603 AD Violence against Jews in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  2. c. 1618 AD Inquisition arrests merchants of Jewish extraction in Oporto · Porto (Oporto), Portugal
  3. 1624 AD Antonio Homem burned at the stake in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  4. 1630 AD Disorders against New Christians of Santarém · Santarém, Portugal
  5. 1630 AD Persecution of New Christians after theft at Santa Engrácia · Lisbon, Portugal
  6. 1646 AD Isaac de Castro Tartas seized at Bahia and burned by the Inquisition · Bahia, Brazil and elsewhere
  7. 1646 AD Isaac de Castro Tartas seized, tried and burnt · Bahia, Brazil and elsewhere
  8. 1649 AD Five Judaizers of Pernambuco burned at Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  9. 1658 AD Captain Chaves denounced to the Lisbon Inquisition · Lisbon, Portugal
  10. 1671 AD Edict banishing New Christians from Portugal · Portugal
  11. 1674 AD Clement X suspends the Portuguese Inquisition against Neo-Christians · Portugal
  12. 1682 AD Great auto da fé in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  13. 1683 AD Law removing children of those tried by the Inquisition · Portugal
  14. c. 1700–1710 AD Denunciations of Beja residents for Judaizing · Beja, Portugal

18th century

  1. 1705 AD Lisbon auto da fé of 1705 · Lisbon, Portugal
  2. 1706 AD Six Judaizers burned in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  3. 1713 AD Lisbon auto da fé of 1713 · Lisbon, Portugal
  4. 1718 AD Coimbra auto da fé of 1718 · Coimbra, Portugal
  5. 1720–1731 AD Maranos from Brazil burned at the stake · Portugal
  6. 1723 AD Francisco Diaz executed at Coimbra · Coimbra, Portugal
  7. 1723 AD Jews from Rio burned at auto da fé in Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  8. 1723 AD Rio Maranos sentenced to life imprisonment at Lisbon auto · Lisbon, Portugal
  9. 1739 AD Antonio José da Silva burned as a Jew at Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal
  10. 1739 AD Condemnations at the 1739 auto da fé · Portugal
  11. 1739 AD Inquisition condemns playwright Antonio Jose da Silva to death · Portugal
  12. 1751–1774 AD Pombal restores civil rights of New Christians · Portugal
  13. 1752 AD Lisbon auto-da-fé of 1752 · Lisbon, Portugal
  14. 1755 AD Violence against Jews in Bragança, Portugal · Bragança, Portugal
  15. 1773 AD Disabilities based on descent abolished · Portugal
  16. 1773–1774 AD Pombal-era decrees curb the Inquisition · Portugal

19th century

  1. c. 1801–1900 AD Expulsion of Jews from Portugal lifted in practice · Portugal
  2. 1806–1830 AD Persecution of Crypto-Jews of Covilhã during the civil wars · Covilhã, Portugal
  3. 1821 AD Portuguese Inquisition abolished · Portugal
  4. 1868 AD Official recognition of Lisbon Jewish colony · Lisbon, Portugal
  5. 1892 AD Official recognition of the Jewish community of Portugal · Portugal

20th century

  1. 1910 AD Complete equality for Jews after the revolution · Portugal

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