Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Plague of boils
Talmud in Kamienetz burned through the efforts of the Frankists, 1757
Law requiring the Jews to adopt a family name in Austria issued, 1787
Jews' College in London opened, 1855
Servian law forbids the residence of the Jews in interior, 1861
Death of R. Shalom Shakhna b. Joseph, talmudist, 1558
Death of Jacob Cohen, poet, 1960
Death of Samuel ben Zebi, of Cracow, publisher of the Talmud with parallel passages, Frankfurt, 1703
Death of Thomas Abbt, friend of Mendelssohn, 1766
Birth of Heinrich Ewald, Christian author of a "History of Israel," Gottingen, 1803
Death of Karl von Rotteck, historian, opponent of Jewish emancipation in Baden, Freiburg, 1840
Death of James von Rothschild, Paris, 1868
Death of Louis Lowe, Montefiore's secretary, London, 1888
Death of Joseph Klingenstein, pedagogical writer, 1890
Death of Chayim Nathan Dembitzer, historian, Cracow, 1892
Death of Jacques Wiener, engraver, Brussels, 1899