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| 1348 |
| | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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| 1480 |
| | Tomas de Torquemada, from a family of converted Jews, is appointed Spain's first Grand Inquisitor | |
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| 1492 |
| | Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity | |
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| 1492 |
| | Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain | |
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| 1516 |
| | The original ghetto is established as a district to which the Jews of Venice are confined | |
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| 1528 |
| | Discussion of Henry VIII's proposed divorce hinges on rival verses from the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy and Leviticus | |
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| c. 1656 |
| | Jews return to England after Cromwell repeals the law of 1290 forbidding their residence in the country | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | A charismatic leader, Baal Shem Tov, develops Hasidism in Poland as an influential revivalist movement within Judaism | |
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| c. 1780 |
| | In developing the Haskalah, the German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn reconciles Judaism and the Enlightenment | |
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| 1818 |
| | The first Reform congregation within Judaism is established in Germany, in the Hamburg Temple | |
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