Ottoman Sultan Selim I passes away. Having conquered Palestine from the Mameluks four years earlier, Selim cancelled the "Law of No Return", enacted by the Roman Senate in 60 AD, which enforced the expulsion of the Jews from their homeland by decreeing that Jews discovered on ships bound for the Holy Land must be thrown overboard.
The conquerors who followed the Romans – the Byzantines and the Mameluks – kept the law in effect, and it was only repealed by Selim I. Unfortunately, the occupiers that succeeded the Ottomans in Palestine four hundred years later, the British, re-enacted legislation that forbade Jews from returning to their homeland.
