[10 Kislev]

• 27,000 Jews of the Riga ghetto taken for execution, 1941.

• MBCS, 1976 (YHS).

[11 Kislev]

• 7000 Minsk Jews executed 1942.

• Yeshiva University received its charter, first American university under Jewish auspices, 1945.

[12 Kislev]

• Yahrzeit of the Maharshal (Yam Shel Shlomo), 1573.

[13 Kislev]

• Yahrzeit of Ravina, 499, co-author of Talmud Bavli. His death marks the end of the Talmudic period.

• Mass murder of Jews of Mogilev, 1761.

[14 Kislev]

• Birth of Reuven

• 2192 from creation.

• Czar of Russia provides for the establishment of Jewish schools and seminaries, 1844.

• Nazi's place Jews of Poland outside the law and beyond protection of the courts, 1941.

• First plane of Operation Magic Carpet bringing Yemenite Jews to Israel, 1948.

[15 Kislev]

• A pagan altar was set up in the Beit Hamikdash, 167 B.C.E.

• Pulver Purim established by the Chayei Adam, 1804.

[16 Kislev]

• Hermann Ahlwardt elected to the German Reichstag, 1892, marking the beginning of political anti-Semitism in Germany.

[17 Kislev]

• Massacre of Jews of Ausburg, Germany, 1349.

• Anti-Jewish riots in Paris, many Jews killed, 1380.

• First Jewish author in America, and his mother, burned to death in Mexico City by the Inquisition, 1596.

• Jews of Nassau, Germany granted equality, 1848.

• Anti-Jewish violence in Bucharest, 1897.

• Hebrew date of the U.N. vote to partition Palestine, 1947.

[18 Kislev]

• Yahrzeit of Avraham Maimuni, the son of the Rambam, 1237.

• Jews of Strasbourg were forbidden to circumcise, to wear beards, and to own Hebrew books (which were to be burned), 1793.

• Polish forces attack Jews of Lvov, 1918.

[19 Kislev]

• Yahrzeit of the Magid of Mezrich, early leader of Chasidut, 1771.

• Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the Baal HaTanya, was released from prison, 1798. YUD-TET KISLEV is celebrated by Chabad chasidim.

[20 Kislev]

• Ezra urged the Jews in Jerusalem to dissolve all intermarriages and to purge the Jewish community of foreign elements and influence, 456 b.c.e.

[21 Kislev]

• Har G'rizim Day, ancient festival celebrating victory over the Samaratins, 331 b.c.e.

• Austrian forces kill many Jews in Prague, 1744.

[22 Kislev]

• Charles IV issued letters of protection for the Jews of Strasbourg in 1357. Two years later, mobs burned 1000 Jews and baptized many others.

• King of Denmark invited Amsterdam Jews to settle in Norway and have religious freedom, 1622.

[23 Kislev]

• Year of Terror against Jews of Alsace began (with a well-poisoning accusation), 1348.

• Massacre of the Jews of Nuremberg in Black Death riots, 1349.

[24 Kislev]

• Foundation of second Beit HaMikdash was completed.

• Chaggai prophesied the downfall of Persia and the salvation of the Jews.

• British captured J'lem from the Turks, 1917.

[25 Kislev]

• First day of Chanuka.

• Cain killed Abel.

• Construction of the Mishkan was completed.

• Yahrzeits of the Vilna Gaon's father and son, 1758, 1808.

• Jews ordered expelled from Tennessee by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. 

• ichron Yaakov founded, 1882.

• The order of the expulsion of the Jews of Spain (associated with Tish'a b'Av 1492) was officially voided on the first day of Chanuka 1968.

[26 Kislev]

• First Crusade proclaimed, 1095.

[27 Kislev]

• The Flood rains stopped.

• Agnon wins Nobel prize for literature, 1966.