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?).
December 15
Events
0533 - Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.0687 - Pope Sergius I is elected.
1025 - Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.
1161 - Jin-Song wars: Military officers conspire against the emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after a military defeat at the Battle of Caishi, and assassinate the emperor at his camp.
1256 - Mongol forces under the command of Hulagu Khan enter and destroy the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of their offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
1651 - Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
1890 - Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
1970 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2010 - A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
Births
0130 - Birth of Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (d. 169)037 - Birth of Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
1242 - Birth of Prince Munetaka, Japanese shōgun (d. 1274)
1447 - Birth of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508)
1567 - Birth of Christoph Demantius, German composer, poet, and theorist (d. 1643)
1657 - Birth of Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (d. 1726)
1710 - Birth of Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (d. 1773)
1899 - Birth of Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (d. 1978)
1902 - Birth of Robert F. Bradford, American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
Deaths
0933 - Death of Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (b. 867)1025 - Death of Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958)
1161 - Death of Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (b. 1122)
1230 - Death of Ottokar I, duke of Bohemia (b. 1155)
1343 - Death of Hasan Kucek, Chopanid prince (b. c. 1319)
1467 - Death of Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, archbishop and regent of Sweden (b. 1417)
1598 - Death of Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Dutch nobleman (b. 1540)
1673 - Death of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English noblewoman (b. 1623)
1753 - Death of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, designed Chiswick House (b. 1694)
1890 - Death of Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
1947 - Death of Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
2011 - Death of Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (b. 1929)
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