Purim
Susa men (300) killed
Brit Milah of Moses
Purim of Rhodes, saved from massacre, 1840
Hadassah founded by Henrietta Szold, 1912
Bray France massacre, 1191, Adar II
First Gulf War ends, 1991
Strasbourg Germany massacre, 1349
Death of R. Dov Ber b. Isaac Meisels of Cracow, 1870, Hiddushei Mahardam, Adar II
Death of R. Abraham Simhah of Amzislav, 1833, Netia shel Simhah
Death of R. Gershon Tanhum of Minsk, 1881, Elano d'Hayei
Death of evil Stalin, 1953
Death of C. H. Hamberger, historian of Jewish literature, Leipzig, 1847
Death of Immanuel Wohlwill (Wolf), director of the Jacobson school at Seesen, 1847
Death of R. Levi Herzfeld, author, Brunswick, 1884
Death of Michael Klapp, dramatist, Vienna, 1888
Death of Emperor Joseph II, "Lover of men," and benefactor of the Jews, 1780, Adar I
Death of Berisch Meisels, rabbi of Warsaw, 1870, Adar I
Birth of R. Nehemiah Briill, author, Kojetein, 1843, Adar II
Birth of Samuel Marum Mayer, professor at Tubingen, convert, 1797
Birth of Adolph Beer, Austrian historian and politician, convert, Prossintz, 1831