First Inquisition in Seville, 1481
Death of R. Aryeh Leib Sarahs, 1791, Adar II
Death of R. Eliezer Gordon, founded Yeshiva of Telz Lithuania, 1910
Death of Rav Ahai b. Ray Huna, 506
Birth of Chr. Hr. Riihs, anti-semitic libelist, 1781
Birth of Zadok Kahn, chief rabbi of France, 1839
Death of Meir Jacob Ginzberg, Hebrew writer, Wilna, 1860
Death of Solomon Herniann Mosenthal, dramatist and novelist, Vienna, 1877
Death of Hadrian Reland, geographer of Palestine, 1718, Adar I
Death of Pius IX, Mortara Case, 1878, Adar I
Death of Emanuel F. Veneziani, private secretary of Baron Hirsch, Paris, 1889, Adar I
Birth of Chayim Selig Slonimsky, mathematician, Bialystok, 1810, Adar II