Expulsion5
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Expulsion of Jews from Leipzig after expulsion from Saxony
Following the expulsion of the Jews from Saxony in 1540, the Jews of Leipzig were expelled, though they kept the right to attend the fairs.
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- Saxon authorities
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Jews driven from Apulia by the viceroy of Naples
Don Pedro of Toledo, viceroy of Naples, drove the Jews out of Apulia. Many of them resettled in Corfu and formed its Apulian community.
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- Don Pedro of Toledo, viceroy of Naples
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Final expulsion of the Jews from Bari
The remaining Jews of Bari were forced to leave.
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- Kingdom of Naples
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Expulsion of Regensburg exiles from surrounding settlements
The Jews who had settled near Regensburg under the Duke of Bavaria's protection were expelled from those places later in the sixteenth century.
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- Duke of Bavaria
- Where
- Stadtamhof, Bavaria, GermanyRegensburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Expulsion of the Jews from Pilsen
During the sixteenth century the Jews of Pilsen were expelled, as in most other Bohemian cities.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Plzeň (Pilsen), Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Massacre / pogrom1
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First Portuguese auto-da-fé in Lisbon
The Lisbon tribunal of the Inquisition held the first Portuguese auto-da-fé, beginning a long series of Inquisition proceedings.
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- Portuguese Inquisition
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Discriminatory law10
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Jews limited to a day and a night in Augsburg
The council ruled that Jews could remain in town for no more than a day and a night, and had to pay the officer who escorted them.
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- Augsburg city council
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Special property tax on Jews under Ferdinand I
Ferdinand I imposed a special property tax on the Jews and made each person swear on the Decalogue to the value of his possessions.
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- Ferdinand I
- Where
- Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Waywodes ban Jewish appointments as attorneys and judges
The waywodes of Warsaw met to prohibit the appointment of Jews as attorneys and judges in the general courts.
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- Waywodes of Warsaw
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Decrees against harboring Maranos in the Netherlands
The court issued repeated decrees forbidding people to shelter Marano refugees and ordering citizens to report them to the authorities. The measures were largely ineffective.
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- Court of the Spanish Netherlands
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Ban on Jewish moneylending in Verona
Citizens petitioned Venice to forbid Jewish lending at interest; the request was granted and the prohibition ratified in 1548.
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- Venetian republic
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Charles V's edicts against unbaptized Jews in Gelderland and Utrecht
Charles V issued a proclamation against Jews who had not been baptized in Gelderland and Utrecht, and repeated these edicts in 1545 and 1549.
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- Emperor Charles V
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Jewish community suffers under Spanish rule in Constantine
While Spaniards controlled Constantine, the Jewish community suffered severely.
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- Spaniards
- Where
- Constantine, Algeria
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Popes enforce Jew-badge and cancel debts owed to Jews
Successive popes renewed and intensified restrictions on Jews, annulled debts of ten years' standing owed to them, and forced them to wear the Jew-badge under severe penalties.
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- Popes Alexander VI, Clement VII, Paul IV and Pius V
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Venetian ban on Jewish property ownership in Dalmatia
A Venetian doge's ordinance barred Jews in Dalmatia from owning real estate, which effectively kept them from settling there.
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- Venetian doge
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Jews excluded from Moscow for religious enmity
From the early sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century Jews were barred from living in or entering Moscow because of religious hostility.
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- Russian rulers
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False accusation (libel)5
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First auto-da-fé in Lisbon
The Inquisition held its first public auto-da-fé in Lisbon against accused New Christians.
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- Portuguese Inquisition
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Ritual murder and flight accusation against Lithuanian Jews
A baptized Jew accused the Jews of Kovel and other Lithuanian towns of planning to move to Turkey with their goods while killing or circumcising Christian children. A royal court found them innocent.
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- A baptized Jew
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Investigation and harassment of Lithuanian Jews over rumored converts
After a baptized Jew spread rumors that Christians had converted to Judaism, royal nobles investigating the matter arrested Jews on the roads, broke into their homes and mistreated them. A further rumor of planned emigration to Turkey brought new inquiries and abuses until Sigismund declared the Jews innocent in 1540.
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- Nobles of King Sigismund I
- Where
- Lithuania
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Establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition
After popular pressure following the 1531 earthquake, the pope authorized the Inquisition against New Christians; it was suspended and reauthorized several times before irrevocable consent in 1547 and permanent tribunals were founded.
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- Papacy and King John III
- Where
- Portugal
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Spanish Inquisition
Established with papal approval, the Inquisition investigated and tried conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) suspected of secretly practising Judaism. Thousands were executed and many more punished.
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- Ferdinand II and Isabella I, with Pope Sixtus IV
- Where
- SpainSpanish Empire (several countries)
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