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 22
Events
0613 - Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.0871 - Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1808 - The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
2002 - Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Births
0826 - Birth of Emperor Montoku of Japan (d. 858)1263 - Birth of Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian scholar and theologian (d. 1328)
1440 - Birth of Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1592 - Birth of Pierre Gassendi, French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1655)
1690 - Birth of Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1740 - Birth of Noah Phelps, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1809)
1828 - Birth of Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (d. 1914)
1938 - Birth of Peter Beard, Australian photographer and author
Deaths
0239 - Death of Cao Rui, Chinese emperor (b. 205)0628 - Death of Anastasius of Persia, monk
0906 - Death of He, empress of the Tang Dynasty
0935 - Death of Ma, empress of Southern Han
1051 - Death of Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
1170 - Death of Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
1341 - Death of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1599 - Death of Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
1666 - Death of Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
1750 - Death of Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1840 - Death of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
1987 - Death of R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (b. 1939)
2016 - Death of Cecil Parkinson, English politician (b. 1931)
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