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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 01
Events
033 - According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.0527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1572 - In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1625 - A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
1789 - In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1865 - American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2016 - Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on April 1.
Births
1220 - Birth of Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)1328 - Birth of Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1382)
1543 - Birth of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières (d. 1626)
1610 - Birth of Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and critic (d. 1703)
1776 - Birth of Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1831)
1815 - Birth of Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1940 - Birth of Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
Deaths
0996 - Death of John XV, pope of the Catholic Church1085 - Death of Shen Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1048)
1132 - Death of Hugh of Châteauneuf, French bishop (b. 1053)
1282 - Death of Abaqa Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate (b. 1234)
1431 - Death of Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general (b. 1360)
1528 - Death of Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. 1470)
1621 - Death of Cristofano Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1577)
1787 - Death of Floyer Sydenham, English scholar and academic (b. 1710)
1878 - Death of John C.W. Daly, English-Canadian soldier and politician (b. 1796)
1999 - Death of Jesse Stone, American pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1901)
2002 - Death of Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (b. 1905)
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