On July 4th in 13 B.C. began the culmination of Italy’s first unification under Rome as well as the start to the Roman Peace (Pax Romana), a 200-year period of relative peace in Europe and the Mediterranean. Roman “peace” came from crushing opposition by military force.
Pax was a Roman goddess and the personification of peace, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Irene (Eirene). Augustus promoted the goddess Pax, who is depicted as a young woman with a cornucopia and olive branch or staff. A temple to Pax (Templum Pacis or Forum Pacis), built on the site of a meat market, in Rome, by Vespasian, was dedicated in 75. This would be shortly after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
This day July 4, 1776 was in the Hebrew Biblical calendar the 17th of the month of Tammuz.
On the 17th day of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on this ominous day.
Moses descended Mount Sinai on the 17th day of Tammuz and, upon seeing the Golden Calf broke the first set of Tablets carrying the Ten Commandments
In the First Temple Era on the 17th day of Tammuz The priests in the First Temple stopped offering the daily sacrifice on this day
And the next year on the 17th day of Tammuz the walls of Jerusalem were breached after many months of siege by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces.
King Menashe, one of the worst of the Jewish kings, had an idol placed in the Holy Sanctuary of the Temple on . 17th day of Tammuz
In the time of the Roman persecution, Apostomos, captain of the occupation forces publicly burned the Torah on 17th day of Tammuz
Titus and Rome breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 70 CE on the 17th day of Tammuz
Pope Gregory IX ordering the confiscation of all manuscripts of the Talmud in 1239 on the 17th of Tammuz
In 1391, more than 4,000 Jews were killed in Toledo and Jaen, Spain on the 17th day of Tammuz.
In 1559 the Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted on the 17th day of Tammuz.
The Kovno ghetto was liquidated on the 17th day of Tammuz
in 1944
In 1970 Libya ordered the confiscation of all Jewish property on the 17th day of Tammuz
Noah sending out the first dove to see if the Flood waters had receded was on the 17th day of Tammuz, they had not
July 4th - Pax Romana and 17th day of Tammuz all being the same day is no coincidence
This thursday is the 17th of Tammuz
