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?).
July 15
Events
0484 BC - Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome070 - Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
0756 - An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1149 - The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1240 - Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1482 - Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1806 - Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1971 - The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
2014 - A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
Births
0980 - Birth of Ichijō, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)1273 - Birth of Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
1353 - Birth of Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1478 - Birth of Barbara Jagiellon, duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (d. 1534)
1573 - Birth of Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
1631 - Birth of Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (d. 1718)
1793 - Birth of Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (d. 1884)
1850 - Birth of Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
1962 - Birth of Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
Deaths
0756 - Death of Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (b. 719)0998 - Death of Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
1015 - Death of Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus' (b. c. 958)
1299 - Death of King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
1381 - Death of John Ball, English Lollard priest
1406 - Death of William, Duke of Austria
1571 - Death of Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)
1655 - Death of Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1750 - Death of Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
1890 - Death of Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
1961. - Death of Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
2003 - Death of Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
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