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?).
February 19
Events
0356 - Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.1594 - Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1836 - King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia.
1963 - The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
Births
1473 - Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)1526 - Birth of Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist and academic (d. 1609)
1611 - Birth of Andries de Graeff, Dutch politician (d. 1678)
1717 - Birth of David Garrick, English actor, playwright, and producer (d. 1779)
1872 - Birth of Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral (d. 1944)
1983 - Birth of Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
2001 - Birth of David Mazouz, American actor
Deaths
0446 - Death of Leontius of Trier, Bishop of Trier1133 - Death of Irene Doukaina, Byzantine wife of Alexios I Komnenos (b. 1066)
1275 - Death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sufi philosopher and poet (b. 1177)
1300 - Death of Munio of Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
1491 - Death of Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (b. 1460)
1553 - Death of Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
1672 - Death of Charles Chauncy, English-American minister, theologian, and academic (b. 1592)
1709 - Death of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1646)
1897 - Death of Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
1996 - Death of Charlie Finley, American businessman (b. 1918)
2012 - Death of Vitaly Vorotnikov, Russian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1926)
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