Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement on Manhattan Island, 1614-1914

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And if your students are studying the Vietnam War, then you’ll be interested to learn that 27th January marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam in 1973. December – The Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the US October is a month full of historical anniversaries, from the birth of Gandhi to the Battle of Trafalgar. A Memorial of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of Northampton, Massachusetts". City of Northampton. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 . Retrieved March 23, 2011. On 10th April it will be the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement which helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. Students can learn more about the significance of this on a school trip to Belfast.

Sesquarcentennial is a modern coined term; sesquarcentennial for 350 years is deduced here from the " Sestertius" definition for 250 years above. For 350 years it relates to being halfway from the third to the fourth integer; thus a contraction of semis (halfway) and quartus (fourth); hence Sesquarcentennial. Semiseptcennial is probably [ attribution needed] a modern coined term: semi- (half) × sept (7) × cen(t)- (100) × centennial (350 years). April is another month full of important historical anniversaries that you may want to mark in your classroom. There are variations according to some national traditions. There exist numerous partially overlapping, partially contradictory lists of anniversary gifts (such as wedding stones), separate from the "traditional" names. On 8th November it will be the 100th anniversary of Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch). The putsch resulted in Hitler’s eventual arrest and imprisonment, but it was during his time in prison for this that he wrote Mein Kampf.In Latin, it seems that this rule did not apply precisely for 1 + 1⁄ 2. While secundus is Latin for "second", and bis for "twice", these terms are not used such as in sesqui-secundus. Instead sesqui (or ses) is used by itself. November – 80th anniversary of the Tehran Conference, the first WW2 conference between the Big Three Allied leaders in 1943

The Latin phrase dies natalis (literally "birth day") has become a common term, adopted in many languages, especially in intellectual and institutional circles, for the anniversary of the founding ("legal or statutory birth") of an institution, such as an alma mater (college or other school). In ancient Rome, the [dies] Aquilae natalis was the "birthday of the eagle", the anniversary of the official founding of a legion.You can take your students on a politics school trip to Washington D.C. to learn more about the civil rights movement and wider US political history. They can stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for themselves, to imagine what it must have been like to deliver such a powerful speech to so many people. September Birthdays are the most common type of anniversary, on which someone's birthdate is commemorated each year. The actual celebration is sometimes moved for practical reasons, as in the case of an official birthday or one falling on February 29.

Latin terms for anniversaries are mostly straightforward, particularly those relating to the first thirty years (1–30), or multiples of ten years (30, 40, 50, 60, 70 etc.), or multiples of centuries or millenniums (100, 200, 300, 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.). In these instances, the name of the anniversary is generally derived from the Latin word(s) for the respective number of years. When anniversaries relate to fractions of centuries (125, 150, 175, 225 years—i.e. 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, and 2.25 centuries), the situation is not as simple. An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. The word was first used for Catholic feasts to commemorate saints. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The big anniversary this month will be on 28th August, when we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech. He delivered the speech in front of over 250,000 civil rights supporters on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.January – Julius Caesar was granted the title Augustus marking the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 BCE Used by Princeton University in 1996, Reading, Pennsylvania in 1998, and Washington and Lee University in 1999. [6] It is a coined word for an anniversary of 250 years: bi- (2) × cen(t)- (100) + quinquagenary (50 years). On 26th January, it will be the 75th anniversary of the assassination of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi. Killed by a Hindu nationalist, Gandhi is considered by many Indians to be the ‘Father of the Nation’ and was a proponent of non-violent protest. The concepts of a person's birthday stone and zodiac stone, by contrast, are fixed for life according to the day of the week, month, or astrological sign corresponding to the recipient's birthday.