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 01
Events
0365 - The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.0996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1009 - Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea.
1179 - Philip II is crowned as 'King of France'.
1214 - The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1348 - The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1683 - The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1893 - The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
2012 - A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.
Births
0846 - Birth of Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king (d. 879)1351 - Birth of Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
1499 - Birth of Rodrigo of Aragon, Italian noble (d. 1512)
1539 - Birth of Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1666 - Birth of James Sherard, English botanist and curator (d. 1738)
1752 - Birth of Józef Zajączek, Polish general, politician (d. 1826)
1872 - Birth of Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (d. 1946)
1931 - Birth of Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (d. 1972)
Deaths
0934 - Death of Beornstan of Winchester, English bishop0970 - Death of Boso of Merseburg, German bishop
1038 - Death of Herman I, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 980)
1296 - Death of Guillaume Durand, French bishop and theologian (b. 1230)
1399 - Death of John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1496 - Death of Filippo Buonaccorsi (Filip Callimachus), Italian humanist writer (b. 1437)
1546 - Death of Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (b. 1499)
1676 - Death of Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1589)
1700 - Death of Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1894 - Death of Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1996 - Death of J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
2014 - Death of Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (b. 1923)
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