5560–5699 AM · 1800 CE — 1939 CE
Haskalah and Zionism
66 events of Jewish history and world parallels.
5561 · 1801 CEThe law goes out of the yeshiva and into the house5563 · 1803 CEVolozhin: the yeshiva that made the Lithuanian world of study5563 · 1803 CEThe Louisiana Purchase5564 · 1804 CENapoleon5565 · 1805 CEMuhammad Ali: Egypt builds a new state5566 · 1806 CEThe Chatam Sofer and the Orthodox Response to Reform5568 · 1808 CEThe Aliyah of the Vilna Gaon's Disciples5575 · 1815 CEThe Congress of Vienna5579 · 1819 CEAmerican Jewry builds itself anew5587 · 1827 CEThe Pale of Settlement and the Cantonists5599 · 1839 CEThe Allahdad in Mashhad: a community that went underground for a hundred and twenty years5599 · 1839 CEThe Opium Wars5602 · 1842 CEMussar in the yeshivas: from Salanter's circles to Slabodka5603 · 1843 CEB'nai B'rith: the first Jewish body spanning America5608 · 1848 CEThe Spring of Nations5610 · 1850 CEThe Taiping rebellion5613 · 1853 CEThe Crimean War5617 · 1857 CEThe Sepoy rising and British rule in India5620 · 1860 CEDarwin and the Origin of Species5620 · 1860 CEMishkenot Sha'ananim: the first houses outside the walls of Jerusalem5621 · 1861 CEThe American Civil War and the End of Slavery5621 · 1861 CEThe Unification of Italy and Germany5621 · 1861 CEThe Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia5622 · 1862 CEThe Alliance schools: from Tetouan to Tehran5623 · 1863 CEGeneral Grant's Order No. 11 and Lincoln's revocation5628 · 1868 CEMeiji: Japan becomes a great power in one generation5629 · 1869 CEThe opening of the Suez Canal5629 · 1869 CEThe Transcontinental Railroad5633 · 1873 CEThe Chafetz Chaim and the Mishnah Berurah5638 · 1878 CEThe Kutaisi case: the first acquittal on a blood libel in a Russian court5641 · 1881 CEAʿaleh be-Tamar: the Yemenite aliyah of 18815641 · 1881 CEThe great wave: two and a half million from the Russian Empire5641 · 1881 CEThe return of speech: Hebrew becomes spoken again5641 · 1881 CEThe Pogroms of 1881, the First Aliyah and Hibbat Zion5644 · 1884 CEThe Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa5650 · 1890 CEThe Bukharan Quarter in Jerusalem5652 · 1892 CEThe Great Immigration and the Melting Pot5655 · 1895 CEThe Dreyfus Affair, Herzl and the First Zionist Congress5656 · 1896 CEThe Cairo Genizah: a thousand years of paper from one storeroom5663 · 1903 CEThe Kishinev pogrom5665 · 1905 CEThe Constitutional Revolution in Persia5665 · 1905 CEThe Revolution of 1905 and the October Manifesto5669 · 1909 CEThe Second Aliyah and the Founding of Tel Aviv5671 · 1911 CEThe Beilis affair5671 · 1911 CEThe Triangle fire: one hundred and forty-six dead5671 · 1911 CEThe Xinhai revolution: the end of empire in China5672 · 1912 CEThe tritel of Fes: a pogrom at the establishment of the protectorate5672 · 1912 CEThe Sinking of the Titanic5672 · 1912 CEThe Dor Deʿah controversy: the authenticity of the Zohar, and an imam's intervention5673 · 1913 CEThe Leo Frank case and the founding of the Anti-Defamation League5674 · 1914 CEThe two poles of Jerusalem: the Old Yishuv and Rav Kook5674 · 1914 CEThe First World War5675 · 1915 CEThe Joint: American money for European disaster5677 · 1917 CEThe Russian Revolution5678 · 1918 CEBais Yaakov: Torah comes to the girls5678 · 1918 CEThe Balfour Declaration5678 · 1918 CEThe Lithuanian yeshivot between the wars5680 · 1920 CEThe League of Nations and the mandate system5681 · 1921 CETorah underground: seventy Soviet years5683 · 1923 CEAtaturk: the Turkish republic and the end of the caliphate5684 · 1924 CEThe quota acts: the door closes5690 · 1930 CEThe Great Depression5690 · 1930 CEGandhi’s Salt March5699 · 1939 CEThe St. Louis: the ship no one would take5699 · 1939 CEThe Second World War5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry