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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 04
Events
0503 BC - Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.1147 - Moscow is mentioned for the first time in the historical record, when it is named as a meeting place for two princes.
1268 - A five-year Byzantine-Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
1460 - Basel University is founded.
1581 - Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1609 - Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
1768 - In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
1865 - American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1983 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
2009 - France returns to being a member of NATO.
Births
1490 - Birth of Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1534)1572 - Birth of William Strachey, English author (d. 1621)
1688 - Birth of Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1768)
1785 - Birth of Bettina von Arnim, German author, illustrator, and composer (d. 1859)
1898 - Birth of Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
1980 - Birth of Johnny Borrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
2012 - Birth of Grumpy Cat, American internet celebrity cat (d. 2019)
Deaths
0397 - Death of Ambrose, Roman archbishop and saint (b. 338)0636 - Death of Isidore of Seville, Spanish archbishop and saint (b. 560)
0814 - Death of Plato of Sakkoudion, Byzantine monk and saint (b. 735)
0896 - Death of Formosus, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 816)
0911 - Death of Liu Yin, Chinese warlord and governor (b. 874)
0931 - Death of Kong Xun, Chinese official and governor (b. 884)
0968 - Death of Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Arab prince and poet (b. 932)
0991 - Death of Reginold, bishop of Eichstätt
1284 - Death of Alfonso X, king of Castile and León (b. 1221)
1483 - Death of Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (b. c. 1405)
1588 - Death of Frederick II, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1534)
1617 - Death of John Napier, Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1550)
1743 - Death of Daniel Neal, English historian and author (b. 1678)
1874 - Death of Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1929 - Death of Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
2013 - Death of Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
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