Strasbourg burns its Jews
February 1349
On Saint Valentine's Day, the city council let a mob round up around two thousand Jews and burn them on a wooden platform in the cemetery. Their property was confiscated and divided among the city's debt-strapped guildsmen, who had demanded the massacre to cancel their debts. The plague had not yet arrived in Strasbourg. It would come anyway.
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Also in 1349 (3 other events on record)
- Black Death reaches England and Scandinavia · Europe · Disaster
- William of Ockham dies of plague at Munich · Europe · Culture
- Flagellant processions roam Germany · Europe · Religion
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.