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 24
Events
1183 BC - Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Erastothenes, among others.1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
1547 - Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1704 - The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1877 - Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1957 - Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
2013 - A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
Births
1086 - Birth of Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1157)1492 - Birth of Sabina of Bavaria, Bavarian duchess and noblewoman (d. 1564)
1581 - Birth of Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660)
1608 - Birth of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)
1706 - Birth of Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780)
1856 - Birth of Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)
1969 - Birth of Rory McCann, Scottish actor
Deaths
0624 - Death of Mellitus, saint and archbishop of Canterbury1149 - Death of Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault
1288 - Death of Gertrude of Austria (b. 1226)
1338 - Death of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1479 - Death of Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440)
1513 - Death of Şehzade Ahmet, Ottoman prince (b. 1465)
1617 - Death of Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)
1748 - Death of Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)
1852 - Death of Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
1976 - Death of Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
2011 - Death of Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)
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