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?).
November 27
Events
025 - Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.0395 - Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
0511 - King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
0602 - Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.
1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1727 - The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
1886 - German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Births
0111 - Birth of Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (d. 130)1380 - Birth of King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)
1422 - Birth of Gaston IV, Count of Foix, French nobleman (d. 1472)
1576 - Birth of Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (d. 1638)
1635 - Birth of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 - Birth of Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744)
1804 - Birth of Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (d. 1885)
1968 - Birth of Michael Vartan, French-American actor
Deaths
0395 - Death of Rufinus, Roman politician (b. 335)0450 - Death of Galla Placidia, Roman Empress (b. 392)
0511 - Death of Clovis I, king of the Franks
0602 - Death of Maurice, Byzantine emperor (b. 539)
0639 - Death of Acarius, bishop of Doornik and Noyon
1198 - Death of Constance, Queen of Sicily (b. 1154)
1252 - Death of Blanche of Castile (b. 1188)
1382 - Death of Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (b. 1340)
1474 - Death of Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1397)
1592 - Death of Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese commander (b. 1568)
1632 - Death of John Eliot, English politician (b. 1592)
1703 - Death of Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (b. 1644)
1852 - Death of Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1815)
1955 - Death of Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (b. 1892)
2010 - Death of Irvin Kershner, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
8 BC - Death of Horace, Roman soldier and poet (b. 65 BC)
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