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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?).
June 12
Events
0910 - Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.1240 - At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 - Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and his suspected sympathizers, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
1550 - The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1772 - French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
1864 - American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1964 - Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
2009 - A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
Births
0950 - Birth of Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)1161 - Birth of Constance, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201)
1580 - Birth of Adriaen van Stalbemt, Flemish painter (d. 1662)
1653 - Birth of Maria Amalia of Courland, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1711)
1798 - Birth of Samuel Cooper, American general (d. 1876)
1895 - Birth of Eugénie Brazier, French chef (d. 1977)
1952 - Birth of Junior Brown, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Deaths
0796 - Death of Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)0816 - Death of Pope Leo III (b. 750)
0918 - Death of Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
1020 - Death of Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
1152 - Death of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)
1294 - Death of John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
1478 - Death of Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
1560 - Death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519)
1647 - Death of Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
1778 - Death of Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
1841 - Death of Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
1980 - Death of Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
2000 - Death of Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
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