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?).
December 22
Events
0401 - Pope Innocent I is elected.069 - Vespasian is proclaimed Emperor of Rome; his predecessor, Vitellius, attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the Gemonian stairs.
0856 - Damghan earthquake: An earthquake near the Persian city of Damghan kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history.
0880 - Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong.
1135 - Stephen of Blois becomes King of England.
1216 - Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam.
1622 - The town of Bucaramanga, Colombia, is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor.
1788 - Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty.
1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1965 - In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
2016 - A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
Births
0244 - Birth of Diocletian, Roman emperor (d. 311)0948 - Birth of Gang Gam-chan, Korean official and general (d. 1031)
1095 - Birth of Roger II of Sicily (d. 1154)
1183 - Birth of Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1242)
1300 - Birth of Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Mongolian emperor (d. 1329)
1459 - Birth of Sultan Cem, Ottoman politician (d. 1495)
1550 - Birth of Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and author (d. 1631)
1696 - Birth of James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (d. 1785)
1723 - Birth of Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (d. 1787)
1839 - Birth of John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917)
1912 - Birth of Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (d. 1943)
Deaths
069 - Death of Vitellius, Roman emperor (b. 15)0731 - Death of Yuan Qianyao, official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
1012 - Death of Baha' al-Dawla, Buyid amir of Iraq
1100 - Death of Bretislav II of Bohemia (b. 1060)
1419 - Death of Antipope John XXIII
1530 - Death of Willibald Pirckheimer, German lawyer and author (b. 1470)
1646 - Death of Petro Mohyla, Ruthenian metropolitan and saint (b. 1596)
1788 - Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1899 - Death of Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
1915 - Death of Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
2015 - Death of Peter Lundblad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
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