OCTOBER 16/TISHREI 14

912:    

Abd al-Raḥmān III succeeded his grandfather as  the Emir of Cordoba, ushering in the Golden Age of Jewish Culture in Spain. Jewish poets, scholars, scientists, statesmen and philosophers flourished and were an integral part of the expansive Arab civilization until the Cordoba massacre in 1013. 

1290:  

The last of the 16,000 Jews expelled by King Edward I left England. Following the expulsion, Jews would not return to England until the policy was reversed by Oliver Cromwell in 1655.