Tisha B'Av, the Ninth day of the month of Av, marks sad days in Jewish History.  Both Temples were destroyed.

During the Wilderness Wanderings

·         After being delivered from Pharaoh's slavery in Egypt through the Red Sea, and arriving at Kadesh-Barnea but lacking the faith to enter the Promised Land, God decreed that that generation would never enter His Land. According to Jewish tradition it was on the 9th of Av.

·         God told the Children of Israel that the oldest generation would not enter the Land. Numbers 14. Also, Mishnah (Ta'an 4:6).

First and Second Temples Destroyed

·         The First Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE.

·         The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.

·         The city of Betar was captured and thousands of Jews were killed in 135 CE. and was the last the last hold out of the Bar Kochba Revolt. On the Ninth of Av Emperor Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem; builds new walls and renames the city Aelia Capitolina and country Palestine; bans Jews from Jerusalem.

England

bullet1066 Jews welcomed to enter England under William the Conqueror as money lenders to the crown.
bulletThe anti-Jewish riots and the mass suicide of the Jews of York, England in 1190. 
bulletOn the Ninth of Av in the year 1290, King Edward I signed the edict compelling the Jews to leave England. Banishing the Jews from England three hundred fifty years until around 1655.

 

France  1306

Spain

bulletOn the 9th of Av, 1492, by order of the Spanish inquisition under Ferdinand and Isabella, the expulsion of 200,000 Jews from Spain, after centuries of cultural and spiritual growth, occurred on this date.
bulletBoarding their ships before the deadline, at midnight August 2nd, Columbus and his crew set sail at dawn. On the Jewish calendar, it happened to be the 9th of Av, or Tisha B'Av.

Modern Day

bulletThe  World War I broke out on Tisha B'Av. Britain and Russia declare war on Germany. First World War begins.  First World War issues unresolved, ultimately causing Second World War and Holocaust.  75% of all Jews in war zones.  Jews in armies of all sides - 120,000 Jewish casualties in armies.  Over 400 pogroms immediately following war in Hungary, Ukraine, Poland and Russia.
bulletFifteen years later, on this very same date, the Arabs began their riots in the city of Jerusalem, which resulted in great tragedy, including the Jewish massacre in Hebron.
bulletDeportation of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinkabegan on this day in 1942.