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?).
December 17
Events
0497 BC - The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.0546 - Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
0920 - Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
0942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
1398 - Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1586 - Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1718 - War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1927 - Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
2003 - The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Births
1239 - Birth of Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1256)1556 - Birth of Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627)
1699 - Birth of Charles-Louis Mion, French composer and educator (d. 1775)
1778 - Birth of Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1842 - Birth of Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899)
1935 - Birth of Brian Langford, English cricketer (d. 2013)
Deaths
0779 - Death of Sturm, abbot of Fulda0908 - Death of al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
0942 - Death of William I, duke of Normandy
1187 - Death of Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100)
1273 - Death of Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207)
1471 - Death of Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397)
1562 - Death of Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)
1663 - Death of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1721 - Death of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)
1847 - Death of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
1917 - Death of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
2009 - Death of Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
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