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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?).
July 03
Events
0324 - Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.0987 - Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 - William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
1608 - Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
1886 - The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
2013 - Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he did not respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
Births
0321 - Birth of Valentinian I, Roman emperor (d. 375)1442 - Birth of Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1550 - Birth of Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (d. 1591)
1683 - Birth of Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night Thoughts).(d. 1765)
1778 - Birth of Carl Ludvig Engel, German architect (d. 1840)
1814 - Birth of Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (d. 1887)
1943 - Birth of Kurtwood Smith, American actor
Deaths
0458 - Death of Anatolius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch and saint (b. 449)0710 - Death of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (b. 656)
0896 - Death of Dong Chang, Chinese warlord
0964 - Death of Henry I, Frankish nobleman and archbishop
1090 - Death of Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 1060)
1288 - Death of Stephen de Fulbourn, English-born Irish cleric and politician
1570 - Death of Aonio Paleario, Italian academic and reformer (b. 1500)
1672 - Death of Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
1795 - Death of Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar and author (b. 1714)
1888 - Death of Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1822)
1954 - Death of Siegfried Handloser, German physician and general (b. 1895)
2012 - Death of Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1926)
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