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?).
February 23
Events
0303 - Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.0532 - Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople
1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 - Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
1653 - The Ballet Royal de la Nuit is first performed at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
1739 - At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
1885 - Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
1900 - Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
2019 - Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.
Births
1443 - Birth of Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490)1583 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
1685 - Birth of George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (d. 1759)
1723 - Birth of Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher (d. 1791)
1840 - Birth of Carl Menger, Austrian economist and educator (d. 1921)
1938 - Birth of Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Deaths
0715 - Death of Al-Walid I, Umayyad caliph (b. 668)0908 - Death of Li Keyong, Shatuo military governor during the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 856)
0943 - Death of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
1011 - Death of Willigis, German archbishop (b. 940)
1100 - Death of Emperor Zhezong of Song (b. 1076)
1270 - Death of Isabel of France (b. 1225)
1447 - Death of Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1554 - Death of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire (b. 1515)
1603 - Death of Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1766 - Death of Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
1848 - Death of John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1908 - Death of Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
2010 - Death of Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
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