List of Mnemonics - History

History

  • 543210 is a mnemonic for the date when prohibition was lifted in Finland: 5th April (4th month) 1932 at 10 in the morning (local time).
  • Kings of England: Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste/ Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three/ one, two, three Neds, Richard two/ Harry four, five, six, then who?/ Ned the lad and Dick the bad/ Harry seven, Harry eight...
  • Wives of Henry VIII: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, lived.

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    “These anyway might think it was important
    That human history should not be shortened.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”
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    “In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
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