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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:

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?).

April 21

Events

0043 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
0753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
0900 - The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
1092 - The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1615 - The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1821 - Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.
1934 - The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
2010 - The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.