World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
Overview
In this project, you will learn about some of the most important events in history that took place on YOUR birthday.
You will use the most interesting of these to produce your own display piece by completing this "Timeline of my Birthday" worksheet.
Instructions
Step 1 - Getting the information
Input your birthday here and click "search". It will provide a list of events, births and deaths that took place across a wide range of time on the day you were born. (TIP: a random batch of events are selected. You can click again to get a fresh batch of results!).
Step 2 - Selecting the information and completing the timeline
Select AT LEAST FIVE of these entries to put into your "Timeline of my Birthday" worksheet, following these rules:
- At least one ‘event’, one ‘birth’ and one ‘death’ must be included
- No more than one entry in each row (=century)
- Put a picture relating to this entry in a cell next to it, with a caption.
- Complete the final row with information about yourself..
Step 3 - Sharing your findings and creating a display
Print off your completed work and use it for a classroom discussion and display (who shares their birthday with that of the most important historical character? who shared their birthday with the most significant historical event?).
August 24
Events
0367 - Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.0394 - The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
0410 - The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
0691 - Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty
0842 - Saga, Japanese emperor (born 786)
0895 - Guthred, king of Northumbria
0927 - Wei Yue, chancellor of Later Tang
0942 - Liu, empress dowager of Later Jin
1016 - Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress consort (died 1039)
1103 - Magnus Barefoot, Norwegian king (born 1073)
1215 - Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1482 - The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter and educator (died 1614)
1682 - William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1759 - William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (died 1833)
1893 - Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (died 1978)
1972 - Ava DuVernay, American director and screenwriter
2012 - Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
Births
0691 - Birth of Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty0842 - Birth of Saga, Japanese emperor (born 786)
0895 - Birth of Guthred, king of Northumbria
0927 - Birth of Doulu Ge, chancellor of Later Tang
0948 - Birth of Zhang Ye, Chinese general and chancellor
1042 - Birth of Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (born 1015)
1198 - Birth of Alexander II of Scotland (died 1249)
1217 - Birth of Eustace the Monk, French pirate (born 1170)
1358 - Birth of John I of Castile (died 1390)
1423 - Birth of Thomas Rotherham, English cleric (died 1500)
1561 - Birth of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
1684 - Birth of Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, British politician (died 1746)
1714 - Birth of Alaungpaya, Burmese king (died 1760)
1843 - Birth of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (died 1905)
1919 - Birth of Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (died 2004)
2007 - Birth of Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (born 1937)
Deaths
0691 - Death of Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty0842 - Death of Saga, Japanese emperor (born 786)
0895 - Death of Guthred, king of Northumbria
0927 - Death of Wei Yue, chancellor of Later Tang
0948 - Death of Zhang Ye, Chinese general and chancellor
1042 - Death of Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (born 1015)
1103 - Death of Magnus Barefoot, Norwegian king (born 1073)
1217 - Death of Eustace the Monk, French pirate (born 1170)
1372 - Death of Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (born 1348)
1497 - Death of Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania (born 1435)
1507 - Death of Cecily of York, English princess (born 1469)
1647 - Death of Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586)
1770 - Death of Thomas Chatterton, English poet and prodigy (born 1752)
1841 - Death of John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (born 1778)
1992 - Death of André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (born 1918)
2002 - Death of Nikolay Guryanov, Russian priest and mystic (born 1909)
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