• The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)
• If you’d like to add to this list, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #history2010.

1st The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. 1960 (50 years ago today)
9th French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” to his phonautograph; producing the world’s earliest known sound recording 1860 (150 years ago today)
17th Eddie Cochran died 1960 (50 years ago today)
19th Melanchthon died 1560 (450 years ago today)
21st Twain died 1910 (100 years ago today)
27th Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise. 1810 (200 years ago today)
27th The British House of Commons passes David Lloyd George’s (1909) ‘People’s Budget’ for the second time; it is passed by the House of Lords on 28 April. 1910 (100 years ago today)
27th Togo gains independence from French-administered U.N. trusteeship. 1960 (50 years ago today)

I’ve just made some substantial changes and additions to my IB History curriculum map which is now packed full of useful resources and links.

• The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)
• If you’d like to add to this list, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #history2010.

3rd: Elvis Presley returns to USA after 2 years in army 1960 (50 years ago today)
6th: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam. 1960 (50 years ago today)
6th: The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote. 1960 (50 years ago today)
21st: The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa results in more than 69 dead, 300 injured. 1960 (50 years ago today)
28th: Thomas Clarkson was born 1810 (200 years ago today)

I’ve produced this Historiographical Terms Handout for my IB students, just to give them some useful points of reference.

Feel free to use it in class – and if you think there’s something obvious I could add / amend / correct please let me know!

It covers such themes as intentionalism, structuralism, annales school and postmodernism so far: but I’d welcome comments regarding other stuff I could add.

Classroom Posters: 24 Key Terms for Historians
Two dozen defined terms, designed to be laminated and placed around the classroom for older students.

• Here are the major events to commemorate in lessons, assemblies and extension tasks in February 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)

• To receive each month’s anniversaries a couple of weeks in advance, follow the ActiveHistory Anniversaries RSS feed.
• To add to this list for this or other months, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #milestone2010.

Asquith’s Liberal Party wins the “Peers Against People” Election in Britain: 1st Feb 1910 (100 years ago today)
Dreadnought hoax: Prince Makalin of Abyssinia and five other members of royalty were welcomed aboard the British battleship HMS Dreadnought. The prince turned out to be prankster Horace de Vere Cole, and the group included Virginia Woolf: 10th Feb 1910 (100 years ago today).
Greensboro Sit-Ins: 1st Feb. 1960 (50 years ago today)
France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara: 13th Feb. 1960 (50 years ago today)
Churchill becomes Home Secretary: 14th Feb. 1910 (100 years ago today)
Louis XV, King of France, was born: 15th Feb. 1710 (300 years ago today)
Old Trafford, Manchester United football ground, opened (100 years ago today)
Douglas Bader, WW2 fighter ace, is born: 21st Feb. 1910 (100 years ago today)
Chopin was born: 22nd Feb.1810 (200 years ago today)