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?).
January 29
Events
0904 - Sergius III is consecrated pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.0946 - Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
1258 - First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
Births
0919 - Birth of Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 951)1455 - Birth of Johann Reuchlin, German-born humanist and scholar (d. 1522)
1525 - Birth of Lelio Sozzini, Italian humanist and reformer (d. 1562)
1602 - Birth of Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1651)
1749 - Birth of Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1888 - Birth of Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
1975 - Birth of Sara Gilbert, American actress, producer, and talk show host
Deaths
0661 - Death of Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad (b. 601)0702 - Death of Princess Ōku of Japan (b. 661)
0757 - Death of An Lushan, Chinese general (b. 703)
0870 - Death of Salih ibn Wasif, Muslim general
1119 - Death of Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060)
1327 - Death of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300)
1465 - Death of Louis, Duke of Savoy (b. 1413)
1597 - Death of Elias Ammerbach, German organist and composer (b. 1530)
1608 - Death of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1763 - Death of Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1871 - Death of Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
1992 - Death of Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1915)
2009 - Death of Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
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