Events Tagged: "survival"

Maccabees decide to fight on Sabbath - after 1,000 killed refusing to defend on Sabbath, Mattathias permits defensive warfare

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai escapes Jerusalem in coffin - Establishes academy at Yavneh, saves Judaism from destruction

Sanhedrin relocates to Galilee - After Bar Kokhba defeat, rabbinic center moves to Usha, then Tiberias

Mass flight to Venetian lagoon - refugees from Aquileia and mainland cities flee Attila's Huns, establish permanent settlements in lagoon

Alfred becomes King of Wessex - youngest son inherits during Viking invasion, Wessex last independent Saxon kingdom

Manichaeism survives secretly in Fujian - disguised as Buddhism, called 'Religion of Light', continues until modern times

Christina flees to wilderness, lives in trees like bird - miraculously lactates from virgin breasts to survive nine weeks without food

War of Chioggia ends - Venice barely survives Genoese invasion of lagoon, emerges victorious, Genoa never recovers

St. Nicholas: Authorities investigate his fasting - Locked under guard for month - survives without food or water - 'The food which nourishes me is the Body of Christ'

Fire at Sainte-Chapelle, Chambéry - Shroud survives - Silver reliquary melts, burns through folded cloth - Poor Clare nuns repair with patches

Herbert Spencer develops Social Darwinism - nature's effort to get rid of unfit