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

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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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