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?).
June 12
Events
0910 - Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.1240 - At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
1550 - The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1772 - French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2007 - Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
Births
0950 - Birth of Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)1161 - Birth of Constance, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201)
1519 - Birth of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1686 - Birth of Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet, French writer (d. 1764)
1798 - Birth of Samuel Cooper, American general (d. 1876)
1864 - Birth of Frank Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author (d. 1945)
1975 - Birth of Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and journalist
Deaths
0796 - Death of Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)0816 - Death of Pope Leo III (b. 750)
0918 - Death of Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
1020 - Death of Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
1152 - Death of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)
1294 - Death of John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
1478 - Death of Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
1560 - Death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519)
1675 - Death of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
1758 - Death of Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
1818 - Death of Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
1944 - Death of Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
2012 - Death of Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)
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