Massacre at York
March 16, 1190
The Jewish community of York, besieged in Clifford's Tower by a mob of townspeople and crusaders owing them money, killed their own wives and children and set fire to the keep rather than surrender. The few survivors who emerged under promise of safety were slaughtered. One of the worst English pogroms.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.