
Start date: 64 AD
End date: 64 AD

Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire.
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(64 CE) A blaze flares up in the twisting streets of Rome.
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1545 | Henry VIII’s ‘Mary Rose’ sinks while fighting the French
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1545 | Henry VIII’s ‘Mary Rose’ sinks while fighting the French
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.1848 | Seneca Falls hosts a watershed moment in women’s rights
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.1941 | A cartoon cat and mouse get their names
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera release a new cartoon, ‘The Midnight Snack,’ featuring a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. The characters had appeared in a previous cartoon as Jasper and Jinx. The new names will stick, and the feuding animals will appear in more than 150 shorts and several spinoffs.
Today in History 07/19/17

Location: Seneca Falls (CDP), New York
Dates: Jul 19 - 20, 1848
Subject: Women's rights
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