BAR takes a look back at some important events in history that happened during the months of May and June.
May 18, 1291 C.E. The fall of Acre, the last Christian stronghold, ends Crusader rule in the Holy Land.
June 2, 455 C.E. Vandals sack Rome, bringing about the fall of the empire the following year.
June 5, 70 C.E. Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
June 9, 68 C.E. Roman emperor Nero commits suicide.
June 10–11, 323 B.C.E. Alexander the Great dies in Babylon at age 32 of unknown causes.
June 15, 763 B.C.E. Calculated date for when Assyrian observers in Nineveh record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
June 28, 1906 C.E. Famed Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar is born Binyamin Maisler in Ciechanowiec, Russia (now Poland).
BAR takes a look back at some important events in history that happened during the months of May and June.
May 18, 1291 C.E. The fall of Acre, the last Christian stronghold, ends Crusader rule in the Holy Land.
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