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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:

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 27

Events

1054 - Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1189 - Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
1214 - Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
1302 - Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
1549 - The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1689 - Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
1794 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1890 - Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1955 - El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
2005 - After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.

Births

1452 - Birth of Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1508)
1578 - Birth of Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (d. 1639)
1625 - Birth of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (d. 1672)
1733 - Birth of Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1896 - Birth of Henri Longchambon, French lawyer and politician (d. 1969)
1948 - Birth of Henny Vrienten, Dutch singer-songwriter and bass player
2001 - Birth of Shin Ki-joon, South Korean actor

Deaths

0903 - Death of Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
0959 - Death of Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou
1061 - Death of Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church
1101 - Death of Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester (b. c. 1047)
1276 - Death of James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 - Death of Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
1469 - Death of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1423)
1510 - Death of Giovanni Sforza, Italian condottiere (b. 1466)
1675 - Death of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (b. 1611)
1770 - Death of Robert Dinwiddie, Scottish merchant and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1876 - Death of Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American minister and author (b. 1811)
1990 - Death of Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1928)
2015 - Death of Anthony Shaw, English general (b. 1930)


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