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?).
April 02
Events
1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.1755 - Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India.
1863 - American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
1956 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
2002 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
Births
0747 - Birth of Charlemagne, Frankish king (d. 814)1473 - Birth of John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (d. 1504)
1586 - Birth of Pietro Della Valle, Italian traveler (d. 1652)
1618 - Birth of Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
1788 - Birth of Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet and author (d. 1862)
1862 - Birth of Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1982 - Birth of Jack Evans, American wrestler
Deaths
0670 - Death of Hasan ibn Ali the second Shia Imam (b. 624)0872 - Death of Muflih al-Turki, Turkish general
0968 - Death of Yuan Dezhao, Chinese chancellor (b. 891)
0991 - Death of Bardas Skleros, Byzantine general
1118 - Death of Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem
1244 - Death of Henrik Harpestræng, Danish botanical and medical author
1335 - Death of Henry of Bohemia (b. 1265)
1416 - Death of Ferdinand I, king of Aragon (b. 1379)
1511 - Death of Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe, German nobleman (b. 1428)
1672 - Death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1627)
1754 - Death of Thomas Carte, English historian and author (b. 1686)
1896 - Death of Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
1995 - Death of Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
2015 - Death of Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
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