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?).
March 13
Events
1567 - The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.1639 - Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1848 - The German revolutions of 1848-1849 begin in Vienna.
1933 - Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
2013 - The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
Births
1372 - Birth of Louis I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1407)1479 - Birth of Lazarus Spengler, German hymnwriter (d. 1534)
1599 - Birth of John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic and saint (d. 1621)
1683 - Birth of Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, German botanist (d. 1741)
1798 - Birth of Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
1880 - Birth of Josef Gočár, Czech architect (d. 1945)
1976 - Birth of Danny Masterson, American actor and producer
Deaths
1271 - Death of Henry of Almain, English knight (b. 1235)1447 - Death of Shah Rukh, Timurid ruler of Persia and Transoxania (b. 1377)
1573 - Death of Michel de l'Hôpital, French politician (b. 1507)
1619 - Death of Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
1711 - Death of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1884 - Death of Leland Stanford Jr., American son of Leland Stanford (b. 1868)
1998 - Death of Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
2007 - Death of Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (b. 1925)
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