jan 1, 64 - The Great Fire of Rome was ignited by Emperor Nero

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This incident was still argued of its validity and its actual cause and consequence. Emperor Nero, known for his brutal regime among the last of the Augustus heir, supposedly started the fire to conform to his own fantasies of "Capturing Rome" and rebuilding all of Rome to his . According to multiple writers such as Tacticus, this might have been an accident as well but resulting in the losses to be tainted upon the already indescribable notoriety of Nero. The aftermath of the fire lead to Nero's putative targeting of the Christians, and burned some of them at the stakes, accusing that the Christians were extremists and saboteurs. This severed the emerging Christianity around Europe and consequentially bolstered the division of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, only to accelerate the downfall of Rome and its culture.

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