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| 1858 | Abduction of a 7-year-old Jewish child, Edgard Mortara, in Bologna by Catholic conversionists (Mortara Case), an episode which aroused univeral indignation in liberal circles. |
| 1878 | Adolf Stoecker, German anti-Semitic preacher and politician, founds the Social Workers' Party, which marks the beginning of the political anti-Semitic movement in Germany. |
| 1879 | Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and politician, justifies the anti-Semitic campaigns in Germany, bringing anti-Semitism into learned circles. |
| 1879 | Wilhelm Marr, German agitator, coins the term anti-Semitism. |
| 1881-84 | Pogroms sweep southern Russia, beginning of mass Jewish emigration. |
| 1882 | Blood libel in Tiszaeszlar, Hungary, which aroused public opinion throughout Europe. |
| 1882 | First International Anti-Jewish Congress convened at Dreseden, Germany. |
| 1882 | A series of "temporary laws" confirmed by Czar Alexander III of Russia in May, 1882 ("May Laws"), which adopted a systematic policy of discrimination, with the object of removing the Jews from their economic and public positions. |
| 1885 | Expulsion of about 10,000 Russian Jews, refugees of 1881-1884 pogroms, from Germany. |
| 1891 | Blood libel in Xanten, Germany. |
| 1891 | Expulsion from Moscow, Russia. |