Editing Cheshvan (section)

==In Jewish history and tradition==
* '''8 Marcheshvan''' (A.D.66) – Jewish nationalists defeat the Romans at the famous Beth Horon Pass, killing 5,300 footmen and 380 horsemen <ref>[[Josephus]], Wars 2.19.9:551-555</ref>
* '''11 Marcheshvan''' ([[Wiktionary:circa|circa]] 2105 BCE) – Methuselah dies at age 969
* '''11 Marcheshvan''' ([[Wiktionary:circa|circa]] 1553 BCE) – Death of [[Rachel]] while giving birth to [[Benjamin]]
* '''12 Marcheshvan''' (1995) – [[Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin]]; now a national memorial day
* '''15 Marcheshvan''' – King [[Jeroboam]]'s alternative feast of [[Sukkot]] for the people of the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|northern Kingdom]] ({{bibleverse|1|Kings|12:32-33|NKJV}})
* '''15 Marcheshvan''' (165 BCE) – Death of [[Matityahu]] (Mattathias), who began the [[Maccabees|Maccabean]] revolt in the city of [[Modiin]]
* '''16 Marcheshvan''' (1938) – [[Kristallnacht]]/Pogromnacht: 1,400 synagogues and numerous copies of the Tanakh are purposefully and systematically set on fire and allowed to burn in Nazi Germany<ref>Confino, Alon. "Why the Nazis Burned the Hebrew Bible", ''Commentary'', vol. 137, no. 6, June 2014, pp. 30–34. EBSCOhost.</ref>
* '''16 Marcheshvan''' (1994) – Death of [[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Reb Shlomo Carlebach]]
* '''17 Marcheshvan''' ([[Wiktionary:circa|circa]] 960 BCE) – First [[Temple in Jerusalem|Temple]] completed by King [[Solomon]]<ref>{{bibleverse|1|Kings|6:38|NKJV}}</ref> (it was not inaugurated until the following [[Tishrei]] however)
* '''20 Marcheshvan''' (1860) - Birth of Rabbi [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]], the 5th [[Chabad]] Rebbe.
* '''23 Marcheshvan''' (164 BCE) – Hasmonean holiday commemorating the removal from the [[Holy Temple]] of altar stones which were defiled by the [[Hellenistic Greece|Greeks]]