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?).
September 27
Events
1066 - William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.1331 - The Battle of Płowce between the Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1422 - After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania
1529 - The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1605 - The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1791 - The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
1875 - The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
1964 - The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.
2008 - CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
Births
0808 - Birth of Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (d. 850)0823 - Birth of Ermentrude of Orléans, queen of the Franks (d. 869)
1275 - Birth of John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)
1300 - Birth of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
1496 - Birth of Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (d. 1542)
1507 - Birth of Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
1657 - Birth of Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704)
1772 - Birth of Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children (d. 1836)
1824 - Birth of William "Bull" Nelson, American general (d. 1862)
1989 - Birth of Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
2002 - Birth of Jenna Ortega, American actress
Deaths
0765 - Death of Pugu Huai'en, Chinese general during the Tang Dynasty0936 - Death of Gyeon Hwon, king of Hubaekje (b. 867)
1111 - Death of Vekenega, Croatian Benedictine abbess
1249 - Death of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1404 - Death of William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
1536 - Death of Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (b. 1483)
1612 - Death of Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (b. 1536)
1742 - Death of Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)
1838 - Death of Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1777)
1940 - Death of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
2010 - Death of Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (b. 1936)
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