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 19
Events
0531 - Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).065 - The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
0797 - Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
1012 - Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
1506 - The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
1677 - The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1809 - An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
2000 - Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
Births
1452 - Birth of Frederick IV, King of Naples (d. 1504)1593 - Birth of Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1647)
1613 - Birth of Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1661)
1757 - Birth of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
1814 - Birth of Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author (d. 1875)
1938 - Birth of Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar
Deaths
0843 - Death of Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress1054 - Death of Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
1321 - Death of Gerasimus I, patriarch of Constantinople
1405 - Death of Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)
1578 - Death of Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1608 - Death of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
1768 - Death of Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
1881 - Death of Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1906 - Death of Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
2016 - Death of Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918)
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