Criteria for judging significance according to Historian Ian Dawson:
A person or event might be considered significant if it/he/she:
•Changed events at the time they lived
•Affected many lives by improving them or making them worse
•Changed people’s lives
•Had a lasting impact on their country or the world
•Had been a really good/bad example to people of how to live and behave
A person or event might be considered significant if it/he/she:
•Changed events at the time they lived
•Affected many lives by improving them or making them worse
•Changed people’s lives
•Had a lasting impact on their country or the world
•Had been a really good/bad example to people of how to live and behave