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?).
March 13
Events
1591 - At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.1639 - Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1848 - The German revolutions of 1848-1849 begin in Vienna.
1996 - The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
2012 - The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
Births
1372 - Birth of Louis I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1407)1479 - Birth of Lazarus Spengler, German hymnwriter (d. 1534)
1593 - Birth of Georges de La Tour, French painter (probable;
1615 - Birth of Innocent XII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1700)
1781 - Birth of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German painter and architect, designed the Konzerthaus Berlin (d. 1841)
1899 - Birth of Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 1978)
1916 - Birth of Lindy Boggs, American educator and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (d. 2013)
Deaths
1202 - Death of Mieszko III the Old, king of Poland (b. c. 1121)1415 - Death of Minye Kyawswa, Crown Prince of Ava (b. 1391)
1573 - Death of Michel de l'Hôpital, French politician (b. 1507)
1601 - Death of Henry Cuffe, Politician (b. 1563)
1719 - Death of Johann Friedrich Böttger, German chemist and potter (b. 1682)
1854 - Death of Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
1962 - Death of Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (d. 1882)
2014 - Death of Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
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