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The color yellow had been maligned since feudal times. Horses that were yellowish were considered worthless throughout society (as seen in the obsolete phrase, to curry Fauvel, a conventional name of a yellow horse). All other colors were used by knights on their shields, so yellow was left to brand the Jews.

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• 717 Caliph Omar II orders both Jews and Christians to wear a distinguishing mark.
• 807 Persia Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders Jews to wear yellow belt, blue for Christians.
• 853 Caliph Al-Mutavallil of Persia issues a yellow badge edict.
• 1005 Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim orders Jews of Egypt and the Land of IsraelThe Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Yisrael refers to the land making up the ancient Jewish Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The term has been used by Jews and Christians throughout history. This territory includes the modern State of Israel, the West Bank and to wear bells on their garments and " golden calfNicolas Poussin: imagery influenced by the Greco-Roman bacchanal In the Hebrew Bible the golden calf was an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses's unexpectedly long absence. It is first mentioned in Exodus 32:4. When Moses went up onto Mount" (made of wood) around the neck. In 1301Events February 7 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prince of Wales End of the reign of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan Emperor Go-Nijo ascends to the throne of Japan Births June 19 Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun o, they were obliged to wear yellow turbanThe Turban (Arabic imamah Persian dulband is a headdress, of obscure Oriental origin, consisting of a long scarf wound round the head or an inner hat. Early Persians wore a conical cap sometimes encircled by bands of cloth, which may be considered one ofs.
• 1121Events Concordat of Worms condemns Pierre Abelard's writings on the Holy Trinity. Later in the year, Fulbert of Chartres, uncle of Heloise, has Abelard castrated. Reading Abbey is founded. David the Builder, King of Georgia, with the army of 55,000 defeat A letter from BaghdadCapitals in Asia Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. It is the second largest city in Southwest Asia after Tehran, with the 2003 population estimated at 5,772,000. Situated on the Tigris River at 33°20 north and 44°26 east, the city w describes decrees regulating Jewish clothes: "two yellow badges, one on the headgear and one on the neck. Furthermore, each Jew must hang round his neck a piece of leadFor the "lead" in news writing, see news style. Lead is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Pb ( L. Plumbum and atomic number 82. A soft, heavy, toxic and malleable poor metal, lead has a dull gray appearance and is bluish white w with the word dhimmiA Dhimmi or Zimmi (Arabic ), as defined in classical Islamic legal and political literature, is a person living in a Muslim state who is a member of an officially tolerated non-Muslim religion. The term literally means "protected person. Etymology The roo on it. He also has to wear a belt round his waist. The women have to wear one red and one black shoe and have a small bell on their necks or shoes." (Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, p.204)
• 1215 Fourth Lateran Council headed by Pope Innocent III declares: "Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province and at all times shall be marked off in the eyes of the public from other peoples through the character of their dress." (Canon 68)
• 1219 Pope Honorius III issues a dispensation to the Jews of Castile.
• 1222 Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton orders English Jews to wear white band, later changed to yellow.
• 1228 James I orders Jews of Aragon to wear the badge.
• 1267 In a special session, the Vienna city council forces Jews to wear Pileum cornutum (a cone-shaped head dress, prevalent in many medieval illustrations of Jews). This distinctive dress is an additon to yellow badge Jews were already forced to wear.
• 1269 France June 19. St. Louis IX of France ordered all Jews found in public without a badge (AKA rouelle or roue) to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1274 Edward I of England enforces the decree. The badge was a piece of yellow cloth in the shape of the Tablets of the Law which had to be worn above the heart by every Jew over the age of seven.
• 1294 Erfurt: The earliest mention of the badge in Germany.
• 1315- 1326 Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid forces the Jews of Granada to wear the yellow badge.
• 1321 Henry II of Castile forces the Jews to wear the yellow badge.
• 1415 Bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII insists the Jews to wear a yellow and red badge, the men on their breast, the women on their forehead.
• 1434 Emperor Sigismund reintroduces the badge at Augsburg.
• 1528 The municipal board of Venice allows famous physician and professor Jacob Mantino ben Samuel to wear the regular black doctors' cap instead of Jewish yellow hat for two months (period extended later), upon the recommendation of the French and English ambassadors, the papal legate, and other dignitaries numbered among his patients.
• 1555 Pope Paul IV decrees that the Jews should wear yellow hats.
• 1566 King Sigismund II passes a law that required Lithuanian Jews to wear yellow hats and head coverings. The law was abolished twenty years later.

In the 20th century, the yellow badge regulations appeared during the Nazi rule as a part of the plan of the Holocaust and were motivated by anti-Semitism.

• 1933- 1945 The Nazi regimes in the occupied countries forced Jews to wear an identifying mark under the threat of death. There was no consistent requirements across Europe as to its color and shape: it varied from white armband to yellow Star of David badge.
• 1940 The Danes undertake heroic efforts to shelter their Jews and help them escape from the Nazis to neutral Sweden. A popular legend portrays king Christian X of Denmark wearing an armband as he makes his daily morning horseback ride through the streets of Copenhagen, followed by non-Jewish Danes responding to their king's example, thus preventing the Germans from identifying Jewish citizens and rendering the Nazi order ineffective. In the book Queen in Denmark (by Anne Wolden-Ræthinge) the Queen Margrethe II of Denmark says about the legend: "It is a beautiful and symbolic story, but it is not true. The myth about the King wearing the star of David... To me, the truth is an even greater honor for our country than the myth."