Prayers for rain answered, Honi ha-Me'agal's
Messiah will appear with 30,000 pious men, Sefer Eliyahu
Pope Benedict XIII bans Talmud, 1415
Frankfurt Purim, Purim Winz, execution of Vincent Fettmilch, 1616, Adar I
Three Jews executed in Wilna on the false accusation of child murder, 1691, Adar II
Death of R. Joel Sirkes (the Bach), Cracow, 1640, Bayit Hadash
Death of R. Moses Meir Perles of Prague, 1739, Megillat Sofer, Adar II
Death of R. Yom Tov Algazi (Maharit Algazi), 1802, Hilkhot Berkhot ve-Hala
Birth of Michel Goudchaux, French statesman, Nancy, 1797
Birth of Rachel Meyer, Jewish novelist, 1806
Birth of Louis Jean Konigswarter, French political economist, Amsterdam, 1814
Birth of Cacilie Furtado Heine, benefactress, 1820
Death of Isaac Noah Mannheimer, preacher in Vienna, 1865
Death of Solomon Saikind, teacher at the rabbinical school of Wilna, Wilna, 1868
Death of Wilhelm Stahl, political economist, convert, Giessen, 1873
Death of Albert Cohn, Orientalist and philanthropist, Paris, 1879
Death of Joseph von Wertheimer, author and communal worker, 1887
Death of Simon Spitzer, mathematician, Vienna, 1887
Death of Julius Stern, musician, 1883, Adar I
Birth of Otto von Bismarck, German statesman of anti-semitic leanings, 1815, Adar II
Death of Moritz Kalisch, painter, Amsterdam, 1870, Adar II