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May 12

Graeco-RomanBuddhist
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on May 12 this year.

  • R. Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lissa (Nesivos HaMishpat)d. 1832 CE

    Rabbi of Lissa; authored Nesivos HaMishpat and Chavas Daas

  1. 113 CEGraeco-Roman · founded

    Trajan's Column, its spiral relief commemorating the emperor's victories in the Dacian Wars, was dedicated in Trajan's Forum at Rome.

  2. 1843 CEBuddhist · born

    Thomas William Rhys Davids, the scholar who founded the Pali Text Society in 1881 to edit and translate the Pali canon, was born on this day in 1843.

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