Rosh Chodesh Shevat
Moses begins discourses of Deuteronomy
Ten plagues begin in Egypt
Saul and his sons die
Moses views promised land, Deut 3:27-8
Plague of locusts, Exodus 10:4
First Jewish newspaper, 1678, Gazeta de Amsterdam
Death of R. Solomon Lichtenstein of Bialystok, 1783, Hokhmat Shelomo
Death of R. Eliezer b. Joseph of Altona, 1814, Mishnat de-Rabbi Eliezer
Death of R. Moses b. Joseph Schick of Hust, 1879, Maharam Schick
Death of Hillel ben Naphtali Herz, Talmudic author, Zolkiev, 1690
Birth of Daniel L. Lessman, German poet, convert, 1798
Death of W. T. Krug, professor at Leipzig and advocate of Judaism, 1842
Death of Carl Fischer, censor of rabbinical literature, Prague, 1844
Death of Carl Weil, court councillor at Vienna, a defender of Jewish rights, 1878
Death of Gutmann Kiemperer, biographer of Jonathan Eybeschfltz Tabor, 1884