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?).
May 23
Events
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.1568 - Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1618 - The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1706 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
1863 - The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
1995 - The first version of the Java programming language is released.
2006 - Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
Births
0635 - Birth of K'inich Kan Bahlam II, Mayan king (d. 702)0675 - Birth of Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II, King of Mutharaiyar dynasty, Tamil Nadu, India
1052 - Birth of Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1127 - Birth of Uijong of Goryeo, Korean monarch of the Goryeo dynasty (d. 1173)
1330 - Birth of Gongmin of Goryeo, Korean ruler (d. 1374)
1586 - Birth of Paul Siefert, German composer and organist (d. 1666)
1606 - Birth of Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1682)
1707 - Birth of Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (d. 1778)
1840 - Birth of George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910)
1910 - Birth of Hugh Casson, English architect and academic (d. 1999)
2000 - Birth of Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian race car driver
Deaths
0230 - Death of Urban I, pope of the Catholic Church0922 - Death of Li Sizhao, Chinese general and governor
0962 - Death of Guibert of Gembloux, Frankish abbot (b. 892)
1125 - Death of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
1370 - Death of Toghon Temür, Mongol emperor (b. 1320)
1423 - Death of Antipope Benedict XIII (b. 1328)
1523 - Death of Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466)
1670 - Death of Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1701 - Death of William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
1886 - Death of Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
1934 - Death of Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
2014 - Death of Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949)
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