Tish'a B'Av
Destruction of Second Temple, 69 CE
Destruction of First Temple, 423 BCE
Birth of Moshiach
Birth of Jeremiah
Exodus generation condemned to die, 1312 BCE
Spies return
Betar falls to Romans, 135
World War I begins, 1914
Warsaw ghetto decreed, 1941
Expulsion from England, 1290
Expulsion from Spain, 1492
First Roman ghetto, 1555
Spain sacks Tunis, massacres Jews, 1535
Konstantynow massacres, 1648
Hungary grants Jews rights, 1849
Death of R. Johanan b. Mattathias Treves, liturgical poet, chief rabbi of France, 1429
Death of R. Isaac Spitz, 1768, Birkat Yizhak
Death of R. Jacob Isaac Horowitz (haHozeh Lublin), 1815, Divrei Emet
Death of Abraham Isaac Castello, poet and preacher, Leghorn, 1789
Death of Meir Schiff, Talmudic author, 1798
Birth of Lazare Wogue, theological writer, 1817
Death of Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor and somewhat of an anti-semite, 1895