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?).
April 20
Events
1303 - The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.1453 - Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1689 - Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1752 - Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740-57).
1809 - Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1922 - The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
2015 - Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
Births
1494 - Birth of Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)1544 - Birth of Renata of Lorraine, Duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1602)
1646 - Birth of Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (d. 1704)
1718 - Birth of David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
1884 - Birth of Oliver Kirk, American boxer (d. 1960)
1931 - Birth of Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
Deaths
0689 - Death of Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)0767 - Death of Taichō, Japanese monk (b. 682)
0888 - Death of Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 862)
1099 - Death of Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)
1176 - Death of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (b. 1130)
1248 - Death of Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1206)
1322 - Death of Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
1521 - Death of Zhengde, Chinese emperor (b. 1491)
1643 - Death of Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567)
1769 - Death of Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
1899 - Death of Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
1961 - Death of Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
2007 - Death of Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
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