Birth of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson 13 Nisan (c. 474 BCE) – Haman's decree to annihilate the Jews is passed. 13 Nisan (1575) – Death of Joseph Caro, author of the Shulchan Aruch. 13 Nisan (1866) – Death of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe. 14 Nisan (1135) – Birth of Maimonides 14 Nisan (1943) – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. The uprising would last until 3 Iyar, and is now commemorated in Israel on 27 Nisan. 14 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) - On the going out thereof, the eve of the 15th, was the first Passover meal, and the 10th plague on Egypt, the slaying of the firstborn. 15 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) – The Exodus from Egypt, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm 15 Nisan (c. 1713 BCE) – Birth of Isaac 15 Nisan (474 BC) – Esther appears before Ahasuerus unsummoned and invites him and Haman to a feast to be held the same day. During the feast she requests that the king and Haman attend a second feast the next day. 16 Nisan (c. 1273 BCE) – The Israelites stop eating manna six days after entering the Holy Land. 16 Nisan (c. 474 BCE) – Esther's second feast, during which she accuses Haman regarding his plot to annihilate her nation. Ahasuerus orders his servants to hang Haman. 17 Nisan (c. 24th century BCE) – Noah's Ark came to rest on mountains of Ararat 17 Nisan (c. 474 BCE) – Haman hanged after Esther's second drinking party. 21 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) – The sea splits, allowing Israel to escape the Egyptian army. 26 Nisan (c. 1386 BCE) – Traditional yahrzeit of Joshua son of Nun. 28 Nisan (c. 1415 BCE) – Battle of Jericho by Joshua (Book of Joshua ch. 6). 29 Nisan (1620) – Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, a Kabbalist and a disciple of Isaac Luria. 29 Nisan (1699) – In Bamberg, Germany during a commercial crisis in 1699, the populace rose up against the Jews, and one Jew saved himself by throwing prunes from a gable-window down upon the mob. That event, the 29th of Nisan, called the Zwetschgen Taanit "Plum-Fast", was commemorated by a fast and a Purim festivity until the extermination of the Jewish community there. Other uses In the Akkadian of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia nisānu, which derives from Sumerian nisag "First fruits". "Nisan"