What Happened That Day

On the 17th of Tammuz:
• Moses smashed the Ten Commandments in response to the Golden Calf
• The daily offering in the First Temple stopped during the siege of Jerusalem when the priests could no longer obtain animals
• Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonians) breached the walls of Jerusalem in 586CE
• Titus (Romans) breached the walls of Jerusalem in 70CE
• Apostomos the Wicked, a Roman official, burnt a Torah scroll and placed an idol in the Temple
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On the 9th of Av:
• The spies returned from the Land Of Israel and convinced the Jews not to go
• Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586CE. Over 100,000 Jews killed; millions more were exiled
• Titus destroyed the Second Temple in 70CE. Over 2,500,000 Jews die. Over 1,000,000 Jews exiled and 100,000 Jews sold as slaves
• The issue of the decree forbidding the generation of Israelites who left Egypt to enter the Land of Israel
• The Bar Kochba Revolt fails as Betar falls to the Romans in 135 BCE. Over 100,000 Jews killed
• Roman emperor Hadrian establishes a heathen temple on the site of the Temple
• Pope Urban II declares First Crusade. 10,000 Jews killed in first month of Crusade
• The mass suicide of the Jews of York during the anti-Jewish riots in the year 1190. Jewish expulsion from England
• The expulsion of Jews from Spain
• The outbreak of World War I
• The deportation of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka starts