Question

any tricks to remember dates?

Answer 1

When I was in my 10 th standard we had 19 lessons in history paper (1600–2000)

There were so many years and dates to be remember to answer the objective type questions.

I followed a trick, it's just an example

There was a question about veerpandiya kattabomman (Tamil freedom fighter) . He was hanged by the British people at kayatharu ( village in Tamilnadu) on 16 th October.

Question : when did veerapandiya kattabomman hanged?

There was a guy in my class whose birthday is 16 th of October (the same date) ,He used to tell “Antha singam sethu intha Singam puranthidchu'' - He compared himself with kattabomman saying that “Kattabomman died and he born to replace him''

Yeah that's how we remember all those dates and years .( relate them with some incidents or things /dates)

It may seems to be funny ,,believe me it works.

Answer 2

Create strong visualizations.[1][2]If you can create vivid images to associate with a date, you will have a much easier time remembering it. The more ridiculous, silly, and strange the image, the better!

For example, if you are trying to remember the date 1732, the year in which George Washington was born, every time you think of that date, imagine a small boy wearing a Washington-type wig and chopping down a cherry tree while saying “I cannot tell a lie!”

Similarly, you could also imagine a person dressed as George Washington “making it rain” with $1,732 dollars in one-dollar bills (which feature a portrait of Washington on the front).

Use your body.[3] You can create very strong associations by actively using your body when trying to memorize dates. Pacing while you study, creating hand motions to learn along with certain dates, and even singing out dates can all improve your memory. For instance, you could:

Raise your arm up dramatically like a Roman orator when trying to remember the date 44 BC, the year in which the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Memorize dates by singing them to the melody of your favorite song.

Organize your information.[4][5] If you can group the dates you need to learn in any meaningful way, you will have a much greater chance of memorizing them. This is because it is very difficult to memorize a set of unconnected bits of information. As you spend time each day practicing the dates you need to remember, look for ways to classify and organize them. For instance:

If you are learning a set of historical dates, make a timeline as you seek to memorize them. This helps to put the dates in some kind of relation to each other, and to show logical connections between them. The more you can contextualize the dates, the more meaning they will have to you; the more meaning they have, the greater your chances of remembering them.

If you are learning birthdates of your family members, map them out on a family tree that you draw out. As you practice memorizing the dates each day, you can visualize “climbing” the family tree to recall all of the dates.

Assign a letter to each number in the date.[6] You can improve your memory by creating associations, such as between a letter and a number. For example, you could memorize the date “1066” (the year of the Battle of Hastings), the date “1215” (when the Magna Carta was drafted), or the date “1776” (the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), by associating them with the alphabetic strings “TZGG,” “TNTL,” and “TKKG,” respectively, according to the following scheme:

0 = Z, because the word “zero” begins with “z”

1 = T, because the numeral “1” and the letter “T” are both written with a single downstroke

2 = N, because if you rotate the letter “N” clockwise ninety degrees, it resembles the numeral “2”)

3 = M, because if you rotate the letter “M” clockwise ninety degrees, it resembles the numeral “3”)

4 = R, because the numeral “4” looks like a backwards letter “R” (and the word “four” also ends in the letter “R”)

5 = L, since “L” is the Roman numeral for “50”

6 = G, since the numeral “6” and the letter “G” resemble each other

7 = K, because if you rotate the letter “K” clockwise, it resembles the numeral “7” mirroring itself

8 = B, since the numeral “8” and the letter “B” resemble each other

9 = P, since the letter “P” looks like a mirror image of the numeral “9”