450:Theodosius II the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from408 to 450 passed away. His reign was not a good period for the Jews people. In425 “on the death of the Jewish Patriarch Gamaliel II, the patriarchate, andthe Jewish council associated with it, is ended.” In 429 the “Roman empireformally abolished the Jewish Patriarchate and diverted the Jewish temple taxto the imperial treasury. In 439 The Theodosian Code was “published which,among others, imposed the death penalty on any Jew who tried to convert aChristian to Judaism” and excluded Jews from holding public office.
532: “Emperor Justinian issues a new law condemning Manichaeans,Samaritans, and heretics.