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?).
July 25
Events
0306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.0315 - The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
0677 - Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
0864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1137 - Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
1278 - The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
1467 - The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1609 - The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1788 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1814 - War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1993 - Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
2010 - WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Births
0975 - Birth of Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018)1016 - Birth of Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (d. 1058)
1165 - Birth of Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (d. 1240)
1261 - Birth of Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1336 - Birth of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
1450 - Birth of Jakob Wimpfeling, Renaissance humanist (d. 1528)
1562 - Birth of Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1657 - Birth of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
1750 - Birth of Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
1866 - Birth of Frederick Blackman, English physiologist and academic (d. 1947)
1976 - Birth of Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet and critic
Deaths
0306 - Death of Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250)0885 - Death of Ragenold, margrave of Neustria
1011 - Death of Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 980)
1190 - Death of Sibylla, queen of Jerusalem
1409 - Death of Martin I, king of Sicily (b. 1376)
1572 - Death of Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
1608 - Death of Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (b. 1556)
1794 - Death of André Chénier, Greek-French poet and author (b. 1762)
1887 - Death of John Taylor, American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
1998 - Death of Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
2018 - Death of Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman
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