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Nisan 15

Pesach I

Exodus, 1313 BCE

Akeidah

Abraham covenant, Gen 15:18

Army of prince of Charoshes (Sisera) destroyed

Joshua celebrates Pesach at Gilgal

Pharoah orders Abram and Sarai to leave Egypt

Ruth and Naomi enter promised land

Avimelech dreams about Sarah

Daniel in lions' den, 372 BCE

Abraham battles four kings, 1738 BCE

Assyrian army of Sennacherib destroyed, 2 Kings 19:35

Gideon destroys Midian

Angels tell Abraham of Isaac's birth

Moses at burning bush, 1314 BCE, Exod 3:2

Lisbon massacre, 1506

Sodom destroyed

Abram leaves Haran

Angels visit Abraham, 1714 BCE

Isaac born, 1713 BCE

Jacob and descendants enter Egypt

Vashti executed

Death of Job

Jacob wrestles with Esau's angel, 1556 BCE

Sarah brought to Pharaoh, Gen 12:15

Masada Jews commit suicide, 73

Ashkenazim synagogue dedicated at Amsterdam, 1671

Death R. Jonah Teomim of Metz, 1669, Kikayon de-Yona

Death of R. Abraham Kalmansk of Lemberg, 1681, Eshel Avraham

Birth of R. Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, 1720

Death of R. Simhon b. Joshua Moses Morforso, 1740, Shemesh Zedakah

Esther Chiera, favorite of the Sultan, murdered at Constantinople, 1600

Death of R. Jonah Teomim, Talmudist, Metz, 1669

Death of Simson Morpurgo, rabbi of Gradisca, opponent of Kabbala, 1740

Death of K. Heinemann, Swedish rabbi, 1868