Throughout Jewish history, an array of tragic events fell on the ninth day of the Hebrew calendar month of Av.
1312 B.C.E.: According to Jewish tradition, 10 of the 12 spies returned from Israel with malicious reports about the land and its inhabitants, and the Israelites fell into despair
586 B.C.E.: Destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians
70 C.E.: Destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans
135 C.E.: Bar-Kochba revolt fails
1095 C.E.: Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade
1290 C.E.: Expulsion of Jews from England
1492 C.E.: Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal
1914 C.E.: World War I, the precursor to World War II and the Holocaust, begins
1942 C.E.: Deportations begin from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp
1994 C.E.: The bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that took more than 80 lives
