19 avr. 1506 - The Lisbon Riot
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Also known as the Lisbon massacre, the Lisbon riot was a great massacre of Portuguese Jews that had been converted to Christianity. It all started when one Jew denied that he had seen the face of Jesus on the altar during a prayer. This made the Portuguese Catholics think that the Jews were the cause of the drought. Claiming that they were heretics and beginning a massacre where they dragged Jews out of their homes to kill them.
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