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?).
October 09
Events
0768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.1238 - James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1594 - Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1635 - Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1799 - HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1942 - Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
2009 - First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Births
1221 - Birth of Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290)1328 - Birth of Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 - Birth of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)
1609 - Birth of Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688)
1796 - Birth of Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)
1858 - Birth of Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)
1935 - Birth of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Deaths
0680 - Death of Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint0892 - Death of Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824)
1047 - Death of Pope Clement II
1212 - Death of Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
1390 - Death of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1569 - Death of Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)
1619 - Death of Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561)
1793 - Death of Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)
1808 - Death of John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1956 - Death of Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
2013 - Death of Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
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