Massacre of Jews in Basel

Date: January 9, 1349 • Location: Basel, Switzerland

The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.

Basel or Basle is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine, at the transition from the High Rhine to the Upper Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits.