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44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar (Rome, Roman Republic). During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, an incensed mob took firebrands from the pyre and attacked the houses of Brutus and Cassius, as well as killing Helvius Cinna. [3] 6 CE – Riots in Rome precipitated by a grain shortage caused by a failed harvest. [citation needed]
A Jewish diaspora had migrated to Rome and to the territories of Roman Europe from the land of Israel, Anatolia, Babylon and Alexandria in response to economic hardship and incessant warfare over the land of Israel between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires from the 4th to the 1st centuries BC. In Rome, Jewish communities thrived economically.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Roman Judea prior to the establishment of the Roman province of Syria Palæstina.. For massacres that took place in Southern Levant prior to World War I, see List of massacres in Ottoman Syria
Israel Border Police: 47 23 children were among the victims. Israeli President Shimon Peres issued a formal apology in December 2007. [3] Avivim school bus massacre: 8 May 1970 near Avivim: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command [4] 12 [5] 25 wounded; 9 victims were children Lod Airport massacre: 30 May 1972 Lod
The Bar Kokhba War reconsidered: New perspectives on the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck. Tsafrir, Yoram. 1988. Eretz Israel from the Destruction of the Second Temple until the Muslim Conquest. Vol. 2, Archaeology and Art. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi.
This timeline of antisemitism chronicles events in the history of antisemitism, hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as members of a religious and ethnic group.It includes events in Jewish history and the history of antisemitic thought, actions which were undertaken in order to counter antisemitism or alleviate its effects, and events that affected the prevalence of antisemitism in ...
c. 597 BCE: When the Neo-Babylonian Empire conquered the Kingdom of Judah in modern-day Israel, tens of thousands of Jews were expelled from Israel, representing the first waves of the Jewish diaspora. This is referred to as the Babylonian Captivity. [3] c. 88 BC: The massacres of Romans living in Anatolia ordered by Mithridates VI Eupator.
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...