Lisbon Massacre of Jews

Date: April 19, 1506 • Location: Rome, Italy

In Lisbon, Portugal, a crowd began a massacre of Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity.

On 19 April 1506, a crowd of churchgoers in Lisbon attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, antisemitic riot that killed between 500 and 4,000 "New Christians", the name for Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity.