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?).
July 16
Events
0622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.0997 - Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
1054 - Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism.
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
1377 - King Richard II of England is crowned.
1683 - Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1790 - The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
1849 - Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Births
1194 - Birth of Clare of Assisi, Italian nun and saint (d. 1253)1486 - Birth of Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1517 - Birth of Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English duchess (d. 1559)
1611 - Birth of Cecilia Renata of Austria (d. 1644)
1749 - Birth of Cyrus Griffin, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 16th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1810)
1888 - Birth of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1952 - Birth of Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
Deaths
0784 - Death of Fulrad, Frankish diplomat and saint (b. 710)0866 - Death of Irmgard, Frankish abbess
1212 - Death of William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
1324 - Death of Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1509 - Death of João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460)
1664 - Death of Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (b. 1616)
1747 - Death of Giuseppe Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1882 - Death of Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861-1865 (b. 1818)
1990 - Death of Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
2002 - Death of John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
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