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 22
Events
0705 - Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1651 - St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
2012 - A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
Births
1040 - Birth of Rashi, French rabbi and author (d. 1105)1302 - Birth of Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan (d. 1323)
1403 - Birth of Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1514 - Birth of Tahmasp I, Iranian shah (d. 1576)
1649 - Birth of Bon Boullogne, French painter (d. 1717)
1715 - Birth of Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French artist (d. 1790)
1819 - Birth of James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (d. 1891)
1951 - Birth of Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
Deaths
0556 - Death of Maximianus, bishop of Ravenna (b. 499)0606 - Death of Sabinian, pope of the Catholic Church
0793 - Death of Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide
0845 - Death of Wang, Chinese empress dowager
0954 - Death of Guo Wei, Chinese emperor (b. 904)
0965 - Death of Otto, duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
0978 - Death of Lambert, count of Chalon (b. 930)
1071 - Death of Arnulf III, count of Flanders
1111 - Death of Roger Borsa, king of Sicily (b. 1078)
1297 - Death of Margaret of Cortona, Italian penitent (b. 1247)
1371 - Death of David II, king of Scotland (b. 1324)
1452 - Death of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
1511 - Death of Henry, duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
1674 - Death of Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (b. 1595)
1799 - Death of Heshen, Chinese politician (b. 1750)
1890 - Death of John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
1965 - Death of Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
2002 - Death of Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
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