The King of Bavel approached the Walls of Jerusalem on the 10th of Tevet, for the Destruction of the First Temple: Rosh HaShanah 18b
The walls of Jerusalem, in the destruction of the First Temple, were broken through on the 9th of Tammuz: Taanit 28b
The Fifth of Tevet was the date when news of the fall of Jerusalem in the First Temple reached the Exile: Rosh HaShanah 18b
The Babylonians entered the Inner Room of the Temple on the 7th of Av, in the Destruction of the First Temple; they lit it on the afternoon of the 9th, into the 10th: Taanit 29a
When the armies entered, the Levites stopped singing, and the young Kohanim climbed to the roof, threw the Temple Keys heavenward for Gd to keep them, and jumped: Taanit 29a
How Rabban Gamliel escaped Turnus Rufus in the invasion: Taanit 29a
The walls of the first Temple sank into the ground; King David's work was not taken by the enemies: Sotah 9a
The pieces of the Tabernacle were buried beneath the Temple, so that the enemy who destroyed the Temple should not be able to use Moses's work: Sotah 9a
Ten phases in which Gd's Presence left the Temple: Rosh HaShanah 31a
Desolation of Israel: Yoma 54a
The plowing over of the Inner Room of the Temple: Taanit 29a
The Destruction was a result of Dishonest Judges: Shabbat 139a
For 52 years, no one passed through Judea: Shabbat 145b
Even the animals, fish and birds were exiled: Shabbat 145b
Only the Kulyas Ha'Ispinin [Shivuta] fish didn't return from its exile, because its spine wasn't strong enough to support a trip upstream: Shabbat 145b
The death of the righteous is like the Destruction of the Temple: Rosh HaShanah 18b
R' Yochanan on the Romans: "Those who destroyed the Temple, it can be rebuilt. But woe to those who killed R' Akiva and his peers!": Rosh HaShanah 23a
Since the destruction of the Temple, the world makes do with Gd's Two letter Name, "Yud" and "Hei," as we no longer have the four-letter name used in Temple blessings: Eruvin 18b
Since the destruction of the Temple, the gates of prayer are closed, but the gates of tears remain open: Bava Metzia 59a
The story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Bar Kamtza's humiliation, the silence of the sages, Bar Kamtza's lashon hara, the Romans' Temple offering and its blemish, and the Roman destruction of the second Temple: Gittin 55b-56a
Nero's aborted invasion of Jerusalem, and the omens he studied: Gittin 56a
Vespasian's three-year siege of Jerusalem, the wealthy people who tried to support the city, and the biryonim [Jewish zealots] who destroyed the storehouses to induce war: Gittin 56a
The conflict between the sages and the biryonim over making peace or battling the Romans: Gittin 56a-b
The suffering of Marta bat Baytus during the Roman siege of Jerusalem: Gittin 56a
R' Tzaddok's forty years of fasting to prevent the destruction of the second Temple: Gittin 56a, 56b
The strategy of Abba Sikra, head of the Biryonim, and his uncle Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, to smuggle out the latter to the Roman general Vespasian: Gittin 56a-b
R' Yochanan ben Zakkai's dialogue with the Roman general/emperor Vespasian: Gittin 56a-b
Rav Yosef, or perhaps R' Akiva, second-guessing R' Yochanan ben Zakkai's replies to Vespasian: Gittin 56b
R' Yochanan ben Zakkai asking Roman General Vespasian for the safety of the sages of Yavneh, the survival of Rabban Gamliel's line, and medical treatment for R' Tzaddok: Gittin 56b
The blasphemy of Titus against Gd, what Titus did in the Temple, and then his horrible suffering and death: Gittin 56b
Titus's attempt to avoid posthumous Divine punishment via cremation and scattering of his ashes - and how the tactic failed: Gittin 56b-57a
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