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 03
Events
0324 - Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.0987 - Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 - William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
1608 - Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1848 - Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.
1970 - The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2013 - Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he did not respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
Births
0321 - Birth of Valentinian I, Roman emperor (d. 375)1423 - Birth of Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1569 - Birth of Thomas Richardson, English politician and judge (d. 1635)
1685 - Birth of Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (d. 1768)
1789 - Birth of Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German-Italian painter and engraver (d. 1869)
1814 - Birth of Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (d. 1887)
1947 - Birth of Dave Barry, American journalist and author
Deaths
0458 - Death of Anatolius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch and saint (b. 449)0710 - Death of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (b. 656)
0896 - Death of Dong Chang, Chinese warlord
0964 - Death of Henry I, Frankish nobleman and archbishop
1090 - Death of Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 1060)
1288 - Death of Stephen de Fulbourn, English-born Irish cleric and politician
1503 - Death of Pierre d'Aubusson, Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes (b. 1423)
1672 - Death of Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
1795 - Death of Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar and author (b. 1714)
1863 - Death of Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
1933 - Death of Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
2013 - Death of Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player and composer (b. 1934)
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