July 19

Events - Society & Lifestyle

1848day.year

Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.

The first Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, launching the organized U.S. women's suffrage movement.
On July 19, 1848, activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened a two-day Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments, outlining grievances and demanding equal rights for women. Topics ranged from voting rights to access to education and property ownership for married women. Over 300 attendees, both women and supportive men, signed the declaration, marking a historic step for the suffrage movement. The Seneca Falls Convention set the stage for decades of activism leading to the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment.
1848 Women's rights Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls, New York
1936day.year

Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces. People's Olympiad of Barcelona cancelled.

Spanish unions called a general strike on July 19, 1936, mobilizing workers’ militias and cancelling Barcelona’s People’s Olympiad amid the Spanish Civil War.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the CNT and UGT unions organized a nationwide general strike. On July 19, 1936, workers’ militias took up arms against Nationalist forces, signaling broad grassroots resistance. The strike also forced the cancellation of the People’s Olympiad, an anti-fascist alternative to the Berlin Olympics. Barcelona had prepared to host athletes from around the world in a show of solidarity. The event’s cancellation underscored how quickly political tensions disrupted daily life. The unions’ call to arms demonstrated the powerful role of social movements in the conflict’s early days.
1936 Spanish Civil War CNT UGT general strike Spain Nationalist forces People's Olympiad