| (64 CE) A blaze flares up in the twisting streets of Rome
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The moon is full, the wind high, and when a fire breaks out in a shop stocking explosives, it soon whips into a conflagration in the narrow streets and packed neighborhoods of Rome. The fire will rage for six days, but contrary to popular belief, Emperor Nero will not fiddle around.. |
| (1545) Henry VIII’s ‘Mary Rose’ sinks while fighting the French
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| A massive English warship, the 800-ton Mary Rose, has given more than three decades of service to king and country when she is sunk in battle just off the Isle of Wight. The ship will be painstakingly raised from the deep and reconstructed as a breathtaking Tudor time capsule 437 years later.. |
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| (1848) Seneca Falls hosts a watershed moment in women’s rights
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Crowds gather in Seneca Falls, New York, for the opening of a two-day Women’s Rights Convention, the first of its kind ever held in America. Prominent speakers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, will call for equal rights for women, including the right to vote. . |
| (1870) Baited by Bismarck, France declares war
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| Napoleon III’s war declaration against the North German States and the Kingdom of Prussia is just what Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered. His desire to see southern German states joined with the north will be fulfilled after they unite to fight, and beat, their common French enemy. . |
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