ROMAN NUMERALS

X stands for playmates TEN;

V for FIVE stout, stalwart men;

I for ONE, as I’m alive;

C for HUNDRED and
D
for FIVE*** (This is five hundred)

M for a THOUSAND soldiers true,

And L for FIFTY, I’ll tell you.

Important dates in History

William the Conqueror, ten sixty-six
       (1066)
Played on the Saxons oft cruel tricks.

Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two        (1492)

The Spanish Armada met it’s fate,
In fifteen hundred and eighty-eight.        (1588)

In sixteen hundred and sixty-six
            (1666)
London burnt like rotten sticks.