Significant Events In Jewish And World History: Spanish Expulsion through the State of Israel.

SOURCES:

(1) Toldot Am Olam. by Rabbi Shlomo Rottenberg

(2) Encyclopedia Judaica

(3) Seder Hadorot, by Rabbi Yechiel Heilpern

Events in Bold Type are illustrated on the Time Line Display Of Jewish History

Years
From
Creation

Common
Era

5252

1492

EXPULSION OF ALL JEWS FROM SPAIN. Columbus discovers America (2)

5275

1515

Period of Achronim begins (approximate date) (1)

5276

1516

Ottoman Turks conquer Palestine (2)

5290

1530

"P'tiriot" (Deaths) of Rav Ovadiah Mi- Bartenura (Italy) and of Rav Ya'akov Polak (Poland) (3)

5304

1544

Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation) turns against the Jews (Europe) (2)

5324

1564

Publication of the Shulchan Aruch by Rav Yoseph Caro (Safed, Palestine) (2)

5329

1569

Rav Yitzchak Luria ("Ari") comes to Safed to teach Jewish mysticism (Kaballah) (2)

5332

1572

"P'tirah" (Death) of "Ramah" (Rav Moshe Isserles) (3)

5335

1575

"P'tirah (Death) of Rav Yosef Caro (3)

5340

1580

First extant "Takana" (legislation) of the Vaad Arba Aratzot (Poland) (2)

5342

1582

Gregorian Calendar established (Source - World Book)

5348

1588

Destruction of Spanish Armada (2)

5353

1593

First Marrano settlement established in Holland (approximate date) (2)

5380

1620

Mayflower arrives at Plymouth Rock (2)

5408

1648

Chmelnitzki massacres. End of 30 Years War (2)

5410

1650

Menasheh Ben Israel publishes Hope of Israel (2)

5414

1654

First Jewish settlement established in North America (New Amsterdam) "P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller (Author of Tosfot Yom Tov) (2)

5436

1676

Death of Shabbati Tzvi - False Messiah (2)

5466

1706

Congregation Shearith Israel of New York organized (approximate date) (2)

5507

1747

"P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto ("Ramchal") (Author of Mesilat Yesharim - Italy) (2)

5511

1751

Beginning of Eybeschuetz-Emden Controversy (Germany) (2)

5520

1760

"P'tirah" (Death) of Ba'al Shem Tov (Founder of Chassidic Movement). First partition of Poland (2)

5532

1772

Vilna Gaon issues ban against followers of Chassidic Movement. (2)

5536

1776

American Revolution

5546

1786

Death of Moses Mendelssohn, father of the German Haskallah Movement (2)

5549

1789

Beginning of French Revolution (2)

5551

1791

French National Assembly grants full civil rights to Jews. Pale of Settlement established in Russia (2)

5558

1797

"P'tirah" (Death) of Vilna Gaon (2)

5563

1803

Yeshivot of Volozhin (Rav Chaim Volozhin) and Pressburgh (Rav Moshe Sofer) are founded (2)

5564

1804

Napolean crowned emperor (2)

5566

1806

End of Holy Roman Empire (2)

5575

1815

Congress of Vienna permits the abolution of emancipation laws in the German states. Beginning of German Jewish immigration to America. Defeat of Napolean at Waterloo (2)

5597

1837

Moses Montefiore knighted (England) (2)

5604

1844

Crown Schools established in Russia (Russian Haskallah Movement). Brunswick Conference (First synod of German reform leaders) (2)

5607

1847

Lionel de Rothschild elected to British Parliament but refuses to take Christian oath (2)

5621

1861

American Civil War

5641

1881

Russian Czar Alexander II is assassinated. Pogroms (riots) against the Jews (2)

5642

1882

May Laws and mass immigration of Russian Jews to America (2)

5643

1883

"P'tirah" (Death) of Rabbi Israel Salanter (Founder of Mussar Movement)

5645

1885

Pittsburgh Platform (Statement of tenets of early American Reform Movement) (2)

5646

1886

Yeshiva Etz Chaim opened in New York (2)

5648

1888

"P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch (Germany) (2)

5654

1894

Dreyfus trial (France) (2)

5657

1897

First Zionist Congress (Basel) (2)

5662

1902

Conservative Movement emerging in America - Solomon Schechter heads the Jewish Theological Seminary (2)

5672

1912

Agudat Yisrael founded at Kattowitz (2)

5674

1914

World War I begins (2)

5675

1914

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is founded (2)

5677

1917

Sarah Shenirer starts first Bais Ya'akov School for Girls. British under Allenby conquer Jerusalem from Turks. Balfour Declaration (2)

5680

1920

England receives Mandate over Palestine (2)

5684

1924

Dr. Y. DeHaan murdered in Palestine. Johnson Law restricts immigration to America

5685

1925

Chevron Yeshiva founded in Palestine

5692

1933

Ner Israel Yeshiva founded in Baltimore

5693

1933

"P'tirah" (Death) of "Chofetz Chaim". Hitler comes to power

5698

1938

Kristallnacht riot against Jews in Germany

5699

1939

World War II begins

5700

1940

Lubavitcher Rebbe arrives in America and founds Yeshiva

5703

1943

Rav Aaron Kotler opens Beth Medrash Govoha (Kolel Movement spreads to America)

5704

1944

National Society for Hebrew Day Schools is founded in America

5707

1947

Dead Sea Scrolls first discovered

5708

1948

STATE OF ISRAEL IS DECLARED

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