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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?).
September 07
Events
070 - A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.0878 - Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1228 - Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1303 - Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on behalf of Philip IV of France.
1571 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
1695 - Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
1706 - War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.
1863 - American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
1977 - The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
2008 - The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Births
0923 - Birth of Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952)1395 - Birth of Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1427)
1438 - Birth of Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (d. 1471)
1524 - Birth of Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (d. 1583)
1629 - Birth of Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, Irish nobleman (d. 1665)
1726 - Birth of François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
1819 - Birth of Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1918 - Birth of Harold Amos, American microbiologist and academic (d. 2003)
Deaths
0251 - Death of Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (b. 179)0355 - Death of Claudius Silvanus, Roman general
0859 - Death of Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, Chinese emperor (b. 810)
0934 - Death of Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (b. 874)
1134 - Death of Alfonso the Battler, Spanish emperor (b. 1073)
1202 - Death of William of the White Hands, French cardinal (b. 1135)
1354 - Death of Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)
1464 - Death of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412)
1566 - Death of Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian general (b. 1506)
1655 - Death of François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (b. 1601)
1741 - Death of Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689)
1871 - Death of Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
1942 - Death of Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (b. 1855)
2003 - Death of Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
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