Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
16th day of the Omer
Second Temple construction began, Ezra 3:8
Plague of Blood
Marah waters, first after exodus, bitter water-bitter tree
Census in Sinai, Num 1:1
First public breaking of Sabbath law, Num 15:32
Resettlement of Jews in Cologne, 1798
Death of R. Schmelke Horwitz, Kabbalist, Nikolsburg, 1778
Death of R. Meir of Rothenberg, 1293
Birth of Sigmund Freud, psychologist, 1856
Death of R. Zevi Hirsch b. Jacob Ashkenazi, Lemberg, 1718, Hakham Zevi
Death of R. Solomon b. Jacob Ayllon, Amsterdam, 1728
Death of Sheftel Hurwitz, Talmudic author, Vienna, 1660
Death of Israel Lyons, astronomer and mathematician, London, 1775
Birth of Abbe Liberman, convert, 1804
Death of Emily Ludwig (Levy), juvenile author, 1839
Birth of Bernhard Alexander, professor of philosophy, Budapest, 1850
Birth of Mordecai Zebi Mane, painter and Hebrew poet, 1859