1421 Expulsion from Austria
1445 Expulsion from Lithuania
1481 The Inquisition under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The Inquisition was set up as a permanent court of the Church.
1492 100,000 Jews were forced to leave Spain. (Christopher Columbus)
1516 The Jews of Venice were forced to live on a foundry Island named Ghetto. The Ghettos were locked at night and Jews wore distinctive badges when they ventured outside of the Ghetto.
1500-1543 Martin Luther, while first supportive of the Jews, when they did not convert to Christianity quickly wrote Of the Jews and Their Lies (main points)
Synagogues burned and homes destroyed.
Jews deprived of prayer books and Talmuds
Rabbis forbidden to teach
Passports and traveling privileges revoked.
Jews force to do manual labor
Act so we may be free of this insufferable devilish burden.
1530 Ivan the Terrible of Russia ordered Jews who refused to convert to Christianity to be drowned.
1590 Shakespeares Merchant of Venice popularizes the stereotype of the greedy, heartless, money-grubbing Jew.
1648-56 Bogdan Chmielnicki led a revolt against the Polish gentry then joined the peasants in attacking the Jews. Over 100,000 Killed in the Balklands.
1743 Jews were forced into money lending when this occupation was forbidden for Christians by the Church. The fact that a few succeeded gave rise to the myth all Jews are incredibly wealthy.
1827 Nicholas I of Russia introduced a 25 year military service requirement for Jews. Children were recruited at age 12, forced to eat pork, and forcibly converted.
1850 Detroit paper referred to Jews as mysterious, cursed wanderers.
1862 Civil war. General Grant general order #11 expelled all Jews from his military district of Tennessee. Jews were refused admission to schools, universities, and professional organizations. Jewish Hospitals were built because Jewish doctors were not allowed on staff at other hospitals.
1881-1920 Three waves of violence against the Jews. The Russian Pogroms. Over half of the worlds Jews lived in Russia at this time.
1881 Houston Stewart Chamberlain, wrote The Foundations of the 19th Century, which claims Jews have tainted the Aryan races with Semitic Blood.
1903 A Russian newspaper published the Learned Elders of Zion, which claimed a Jewish plot to dominate the world. This was a forgery. Henry Ford believed the story and widely published it throughout the United States.
1917 After WW I the British Government was given a mandate to rule the territory Palestine, and the Balfour Declaration supported a national home for the Jewish people in their ancient homeland.
1921 The British made contradictory promises to Jews and Arabs and took over half of Palestine and gave it to the Arabs, creating the kingdom of Transjordan
1922 Hitler stated that if he won power the annihilation of the Jews would be his first and foremost task.
1924 President Coolidge signed the Immigration Act which effectively ended open immigration to the USA.
1929 Arabs demanded an end to Jewish immigration and massacred Jews in Hebron and Safed.
1933 The first concentration camp was established at Dachau.
1936 Continued campaign of Arab violence to remove the infidel from their midst. Britain backed down on its promises to protect the Jews just as Adolph Hitler came to power.
1936 Olympic games in Munich. Signs saying Jews are not welcome had to be removed from the most public areas to present a better view to the western world.
1938 Jewish Passports were required to be marked with a J.
1939 937 Jews set sail from Cuba to escape persecution. The ship was forced to return to Europe and most of these Jews died in death camps.
1939 All Jews forced to wear a yellow star.
1941 33,000 Jews rounded up at Babi Yar, forced to digs huge pits and then were shot. Six major death camps were formed in Poland.
1945 The war came to an end with over 6 million Jews Dead. 1/3 of the worlds Jewry were murdered.
1947 the UN voted to partition the already partitioned Palestine. Remember, Transjordan already had more than ½.
1947 France led the way in Holocaust denial. Maurice Bardeche and Paul Rassinier when questioned of the Holocaust, defended the Germans.
1947 England sends immigrants fresh from the camps back to Hamburg.
1950s US college professors Austin App and Harry Barnes published material that questioned and later denied the Holocaust had really occurred.
1977 Arthur Butz, Professor at Northwestern University wrote the Hoax of the 20th Century in which he denied the Holocaust as ever occurring.
