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?).
January 27
Events
098 - Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor;1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302 - Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1880 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
1996 - In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
2013 - Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
Births
1365 - Birth of Edward of Angoulême, English noble (d. 1370)1443 - Birth of Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Birth of Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1662 - Birth of Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (d. 1742)
1701 - Birth of Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (d. 1790)
1850 - Birth of John Collier, English painter and author (d. 1934)
1910 - Birth of Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1979)
Deaths
0457 - Death of Marcian, Byzantine emperor (b. 392)0555 - Death of Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 508)
0672 - Death of Pope Vitalian
0847 - Death of Pope Sergius II (b. 790)
0906 - Death of Liu Can, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
0931 - Death of Ruotger, archbishop of Trier
0947 - Death of Zhang Yanze, Chinese general and governor
098 - Death of Nerva, Roman emperor (b. 35)
1062 - Death of Adelaide of Hungary, (b. c. 1040)
1311 - Death of Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
1490 - Death of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)
1540 - Death of Angela Merici, Italian educator and saint, founded the Company of St. Ursula (b. 1474)
1651 - Death of Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1566)
1733 - Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian and author (b. 1669)
1814 - Death of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1762)
1987 - Death of Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
2004 - Death of Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
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