Timeline of Key Events: Match the Dates. An overview of the entire period, chronologically arranged but with no dates provided. Students see how many of the events they can correctly identify. The completed teacher version is also available.

At the International School of Toulouse, Year 8 students (aged 13-14) are taken off-timetable during the summer term for what we call “Renaissance Day“. The event is popular with both teachers and students. It promotes cross-curricular awareness, gets students working effectively as teams, develops analytical ability and improves presentational skills. The resources to develop your own Renaissance Day can be found here.

Picture Round and Terminology Quiz. Students are instructed to locate some pictures of key characters, and produce quiz questions that can be turned into an interactive revision exercise at www.classtools.net.

50 years ago today (6th June 1961)
Death of Carlth Juneg, Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of analytical psychology

250 years ago today (7th June 1761)
Birth of John Rennie, Scottish civil engineer, built bridges, canals, docks and harbours throughout Britain

20 years ago today (12th June 1991)
Boris Yeltsin became the first directly elected President of Russia. (Inaugurated 10th July)

75 years ago today (14th June 1936)
Death of G. K. Chesterton, British writer, poet, journalist and critic

200 years ago today (14th June 1811)
Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and novelist (‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’)

25 years ago today (14th June 1986)
Death of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet and writer

50 years ago today (16th June 1961)
Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris

20 years ago today (17th June 1991)
Apartheid: South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act (1950), which required that all inhabitants be classified according to their race

50 years ago today (19th June 1961)
Kuwait became independent from the United Kingdom

150 years ago today (19th June 1861)
Birth of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal who commanded Britain’s forces in France during WWI

70 years ago today (22nd June 1941)
World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany invaded the Soviet Union

25 years ago today (22nd June 1986)
The ‘Hand of God’ goal – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored a goal against England using his hand in the quarter-final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.

20 years ago today (25th June 1991)
Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia

150 years ago today (29th June 1861)
Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet

25 years ago today (29th June 1986)
British entrepreneur Richard Branson broke the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a powerboat

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