Wherio puzzle archive
Play every past day of Wherio, the daily history map game. Try all five historical events, share your score, then reveal the answers and locations. Puzzles appear here the day after they run.
Looking for another way to test your map skills? Explore our guide to the best daily geography games.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
September 8th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The Easter Rising breaks out against British rule. · A solar-powered plane lands beside the Persian Gulf after completing the first fuel-free flight around the world. · A former French territory at the entrance to the Red Sea, opposite Yemen, gains independence after an overwhelming referendum. · A bridge nicknamed 'the coathanger' opens over a harbor. · A sultan's first siege of a great Danube city fails in autumn rains.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
September 7th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A military head of state is killed in traffic during a failed coup in an oil-rich state at the Niger River's delta. · Salvador Dalí opens his own surreal theater-museum at his Catalan hometown. · A small Mediterranean island shaped like a frying pan, lying just south of Turkey, ends British colonial rule. · In a second referendum, voters in a narrow anglophone enclave within francophone West Africa approve a republic. · A physician raised beside a Silk Road oasis west of Samarkand writes a Canon that rules medicine for 600 years.
Wars and Uprisings, Catastrophes & More
September 6th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A medieval walled port on the Adriatic is blockaded and shelled during the breakup of a federation. · A large Indian Ocean island regains independence after sixty-four years of French rule. · Napoleon's infantry squares defeat Mamluk cavalry beside the Nile near Embabeh. · A car ferry sinks during an overnight crossing of the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. · A queen picks a lumber town as a compromise capital for a new confederation of British colonies.
Ancient Worlds, Legal Turning Points & More
September 5th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: According to legend, Romulus founds a city that becomes the capital of an ancient empire. · Allied courts open the trials of major Nazi war criminals in the defeated enemy's own land. · Three towers topped by a ship-shaped skypark open. · The Eureka Stockade rebellion flies a Southern Cross flag. · A lake battle seals a continent's liberation war.
Catastrophes, Nations in Transition & More
September 4th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Trapped miners are rescued after 69 days underground. · A military coup topples an elected president in a South American republic famed for its ancient mountain citadel. · Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize under house arrest. · Nearly all the nation's women stop paid and unpaid work for a day. · Marines storm a tiny coral atoll in the central Pacific at terrible cost in 76 hours.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
September 3rd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A Soviet republic declares state sovereignty, beginning its path toward independence. · Swiss soldiers get lost during an exercise and accidentally 'invade' the tiny alpine principality next door. · Months after declaring independence from France, a new republic stretching from the Red River delta to the Mekong holds its first national election. · A canal finally cuts through the isthmus linking the Peloponnese to the mainland. · On 3 August 1960, a French territory becomes an independent republic.
Bold Ideas, Historic Turning Points & More
September 2nd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A king announces that his realm will abandon its colonial-era name and use its indigenous one. · A 16-year-old kitchen apprentice invents a chocolate cake for a prince at the Habsburg court. · Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in a secret annex above a canal-side warehouse. · Amundsen's expedition quietly leaves a southern fjord, secretly bound for the South Pole. · A ruling junta secretly moves its Southeast Asian capital upcountry to a vast, empty planned city.
Society in Transition, Money and Markets & More
September 1st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A biologist launches a women-led movement that plants millions of trees. · Monasteries perch atop the sandstone pinnacles of Meteora. · Students and reformist officers topple a dictator in Central America's most populous nation. · The world's first stock exchange trades a single company. · A royal rock-salt mine on the upper Vistula begins funding a kingdom.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
August 31st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Columbus sets sail from an Atlantic port with three ships. · A French colony on the Atlantic coast becomes independent under Léon M'ba. · A highland monarchy east of the Congo basin becomes independent from Belgian administration. · Europe's most isolated one-party state, wedged between the Adriatic Sea and Greece, holds its first multiparty election in nearly seven decades. · In a Mediterranean port famed for its lighthouse and library, an inventor's machine dispenses holy water for a coin.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
August 30th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: At a farm outside an island capital, Hemingway completes the novella that revives his career. · An oil-rich monarchy occupying two parts of a great Southeast Asian island gains full independence. · A small Nordic studio launches the hit mobile game Angry Birds. · A late comeback completes a famous World Cup upset at a stadium beside the Aare River. · A wandering teacher whose sayings will shape a civilization is born.
Mysteries Revealed, Famous Landmarks & More
August 29th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Darwin's Beagle expedition reaches the Galápagos Islands. · The hammer-and-sickle flag is lowered over this country's seat of Soviet power. · A monumental statue is dedicated above a famous Atlantic coastal metropolis. · El Cid captures a Mediterranean city and rules it himself. · A blue gate of glazed dragons and bulls rises over a processional way.
Cultural Milestones, Championship Drama & More
August 28th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Divers descend from wooden dhows to rich offshore pearl banks before oil transforms the regional economy. · A hidden girl's diary from the Secret Annex is published by her father. · A predawn earthquake levels the center of a Central American capital built on the shore of a great lake. · A condominium jointly managed by Britain and France becomes a republic. · A continental football tournament is hosted there, and a last-minute replacement team wins the final 2-0.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
August 27th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A desert mandate between the great rift valley and the Arabian sands becomes an independent kingdom under its Hashemite emir. · A 17th-century canal ring joins the World Heritage list. · A former British colony in the South Pacific gains independence during a ceremony on its largest island. · A Pacific territory administered by Australia becomes a sovereign state. · The famed pirate Henry Morgan sacks an important city on the isthmus linking North and South America.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
August 26th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The largest island in the Caribbean begins a war for independence from Spain. · The last known thylacine dies in a zoo. · A Spanish colony gains independence with its new government based on a volcanic island near the equator. · A guild of unmarried foreign merchants completes an ornate trading house beside a northern European river port. · A newly elected assembly declares a federal democratic republic, thereby abolishing its monarchy.
Bold Ideas, Historic Turning Points & More
August 25th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Cabinet ministers descend six metres into a lagoon and sign a declaration underwater. · A coral 'Stonehenge of the Pacific' trilithon is raised. · Mansa Musa, one of history's richest rulers, makes a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and spends so much gold that he disrupts economies along the way. · Between the Limpopo and the Zambezi, Cecil Rhodes' pioneers raise a flag at a fort that will become their colony's capital. · A prince proclaims its full independence from Ottoman rule in an old capital, then takes the title tsar.
Engineering Marvels, Sporting Moments & More
August 24th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The luxury rail service that would later reach its Ottoman terminus beside the Bosporus begins its first journey. · A lone 65-metre minaret of baked brick stands in a remote region between the Jam and Hari Rivers in Ghor. · Pelé scores the celebrated 1,000th goal of his career at Maracanã Stadium. · The Peace of Breda confirms Dutch control of Run, a tiny nutmeg-producing island. · A federation on the Malay Peninsula becomes independent from Britain.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
August 23rd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Akihito becomes the first emperor to abdicate in 200 years. · A Bayer chemist synthesizes aspirin, a willow-bark painkiller. · Its former protectorate becomes independent and chooses Seretse Khama as its first president. · A small island fortress withstands a massive Ottoman siege for nearly four months. · Darius I improves its relay road from Susa to Sardis.
Medical Breakthroughs, Political Turning Points & More
August 22nd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Banting and Best first isolate insulin at the university behind the Varsity Blues. · The golden Angel of Independence is unveiled. · A dictator opens a 'cinema city' studio complex. · A court painter completes an enigmatic masterpiece of mirrors and dwarfs. · A 'Tulip Revolution' topples a post-Soviet president.
Wars and Uprisings, Monuments and Marvels & More
August 21st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Formerly enslaved revolutionaries win independence from French colonial rule. · A 1,500-room baroque palace is nearing completion for the tsars on Baltic marshes. · A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name. · At its 1928 youth congress, delegates pledge one motherland, one nation, and a unifying language. · A wooden horse ends a ten-year siege, as the poets tell it.
Nature and Conservation, Sporting Moments & More
August 20th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: One side of a two-country waterfall system becomes a national park. · South America hosts its first Olympic Games in a famous Atlantic coastal metropolis. · A ten-day war ends with a small alpine state free. · Angkor is abandoned as a capital. · An astronomer proposes a 100-degree temperature scale.
Mysteries Revealed, Battles & More
August 19th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The host nation wins the first football World Cup final. · At 4:20 am, a former British colony becomes an independent republic, declining to join the Commonwealth. · A Swiss explorer rediscovers the rose-red city of Petra. · An 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule seeks independence for a kingdom on the Danube. · A caliphate's capital boasts Europe's greatest library.
Scientific Breakthroughs, Crowns and Empires & More
August 18th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, launching from a remote steppe launch site. · A king builds an observatory tower with a spiral ramp for horses. · A triangular chocolate bar of milk chocolate, nougat, almonds, and honey whose logo hides a bear is created. · A meteor explodes over a city in its southern Ural region, injuring 1,491 people. · Stephen the Great, this country's medieval ruler, rules from 1457 until his death.
Engineering Marvels, Wars and Uprisings & More
August 17th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A canal linking two oceans opens across a narrow isthmus. · Navigators from this Atlantic country open a sea route to India around Africa. · The Winter War begins when Soviet forces invade this northern European country, famed for its lakes and saunas. · Welsh settlers arrive in this country aboard the Mimosa, beginning a colony in Patagonia. · A Norse colony declines after centuries of farming along Greenland's southwestern fjords.
Revolutions, Innovations, Enduring Legacies & More
August 16th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A former French colony becomes independent, and Hubert Maga becomes its first president. · A revolution restores a Buddhist spiritual monarch in the vast landlocked country between Russia and China. · The legislature of three islands declares a new state while a fourth remains under French administration. · A submarine volcano north of the main island erupts with a blast that sends tsunamis across the Pacific. · Red Guards seize key buildings as a newly independent nation falls into civil war.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
August 15th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A Mughal emperor completes a grand marble mausoleum for his wife. · A former British protectorate on the Gulf of Aden unites with the Italian-administered territory to its south as a single republic. · The easternmost island in the Caribbean gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes a Commonwealth realm. · Its admiral's turtle ships helped win naval victories during an invasion in 1592. · Mass protests drive an authoritarian president from power and ignite the Arab Spring.
Battles, Faith and Tradition & More
August 14th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Soviet tanks enter the capital before dawn to crush a nationwide uprising in central Europe. · The world's oldest living human-planted tree with a known planting date grows in this country's historic UNESCO World Heritage City. · A cathedral-like national museum of a low country's golden-age art opens in 1885. · Voters become the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by referendum. · Chariot-race factions nearly topple an emperor; 30,000 die.
Bold Ideas, Historic Turning Points & More
August 13th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A ruler unites the Nejd and the Hejaz, proclaiming an Arabian kingdom named for his dynasty. · Three shepherd children draw a crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, for the Miracle of the Sun at this country's rural pilgrimage site. · After conquering Babylon, Cyrus deposits a clay proclamation in the city's foundations. · After a long guerrilla war against Portugal, a liberation movement declares independence in the remote southeastern region of Boé. · Parliament abolishes a monarchy that had existed without a king for decades.
Cultural Milestones, Trade and Industry & More
August 12th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A diverse island colony east of Madagascar becomes independent while keeping the British monarch. · The communal kimchi-making tradition joins UNESCO's list. · Mariachi music joins UNESCO's cultural heritage list. · In 2000, fossil hunters uncover partial skeletons and numerous skulls of a giant crocodylomorph in this country's Ténéré Desert. · Firefighters extinguish hundreds of well fires left burning across the desert after forces retreat from the small Gulf state they occupied.
Monuments and Marvels, Natural Wonders & More
August 11th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A vast Mughal mosque of red sandstone and white marble is completed opposite a fort beside its historic Walled City. · A national park containing Perito Moreno, Upsala, and Spegazzini glaciers is established in its southern province. · An ancient Silk Road city becomes the dazzling capital of Timur's empire. · The world's longest rail tunnel opens deep under the Alps. · A pirate haven flourishes on a narrow island off the east coast of a much larger Indian Ocean island.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
August 10th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Its capital moves from its largest city to a harbor on the southern tip of its North Island. · Renovating his home, a man breaks through a wall into a multi-level underground city carved from the volcanic rock of Cappadocia. · Colonists disguised as natives dump 342 chests of British tea into a harbor in protest. · On 30 May 1990, its newly elected parliament first convened after the first multiparty elections held there since 1938. · Peaceful protesters carrying roses force a president to resign after disputed elections.
Cultural Milestones, Monuments and Marvels & More
August 9th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A small island state between the Qatar peninsula and the Saudi coast, heartland of ancient Dilmun, declares independence as Britain withdraws east of Suez. · Two resistance fighters attack a senior Nazi official traveling in an open car. · Rembrandt completes his huge group portrait The Night Watch. · Forty-seven masterless samurai storm an official's mansion in the shogun's eastern capital, then are ordered to die by seppuku. · A pop-art icon's museum opens near his parents' village.
Monuments and Marvels, Catastrophes & More
August 8th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A vast amphitheater opens with inaugural games. · A new maple leaf flag is raised for the first time. · Africa's only country entirely enclosed by another becomes independent from Britain. · A submarine disaster unfolds in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 aboard. · A tiny duchy on Europe's northeastern coast builds one of the era's largest merchant fleets at its own ice-free ports.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
August 7th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The Pyramid of the Sun is completed in a great ceremonial metropolis of a highland basin in central Mesoamerica. · A museum opens beneath a celebrated ancient hilltop citadel. · A famous statue-lined stone bridge is begun across a river in a Bohemian capital. · A military ruler crowns himself emperor in a lavish ceremony modeled on Napoleon. · People of the Rus' capital are baptized en masse in the Dnieper River, binding the realm to Byzantine Christianity.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
August 6th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The Red Fort hosts the first Independence Day address. · An 85-metre statue of a sword-raising mother crowns a battle-scarred hill above the Volga. · The world's fastest train, a magnetic-levitation line, enters service in a booming East Asian megacity. · A king expands the Zulu Kingdom through war and diplomacy. · Student protests for Bengali language recognition help forge the national identity that later drives its independence.
Bold Ideas, Historic Turning Points & More
August 5th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Armored forces capture the southern capital near the Mekong Delta, ending a long war. · Momofuku Ando of Nissin Foods invents instant noodles in this country. · After a long siege, Cortés and Indigenous allies capture the Aztec capital. · An earthquake topples the Colossus, a giant bronze statue of the sun god, after 54 years. · Two rival republics merge to form one state at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
Famous Landmarks, Military Turning Points & More
August 4th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A former French territory on the Atlantic edge of the Sahel becomes an independent republic. · As tradition tells, a mud-and-timber mosque is founded in a savanna village north of the old Gold Coast forest belt. · The world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity, is unveiled. · The Graf Spee is scuttled after being forced to put into port in this country. · Officers who trade in rum depose the governor of a remote southern penal colony, its only military coup.
Monuments and Marvels, Historical Discoveries & More
August 3rd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A bloodless revolt begins in the country whose flag bears different emblems on each side. · A new library rises on the Mediterranean shore to honor the famous ancient library that once stood there. · The government ends martial law on the island just off China's southeastern coast. · Treasure hunters find a Tairona settlement of stone terraces and stairways deep in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. · Looters dig up a Bronze Age map of the heavens on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
August 2nd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A Mayan kingdom reaches its peak at Tikal, in the rainforest of the Petén Basin, where temple pyramids rise above the jungle canopy. · A king signs the June Constitution that ends absolute monarchy. · A new republic signs a treaty to build a canal across its narrow land bridge joining two continents. · Following a decade-long liberation war that ended in a 1974 ceasefire, a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa becomes independent in 1975. · A Maya farming village in a volcanic Central American nation was buried under ash and preserved almost intact for well over a thousand years.
Lost Civilizations, Food and Drink & More
August 1st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A great walled port is founded on the Caribbean coast of South America. · The La Tomatina tomato fight tradition begins in a town of about 9,000 people. · The couturier Chanel launches her No. 5 perfume. · A country begins an anti-religious campaign that later produces the world's first constitutionally atheist state. · The Kamakura shogunate, a warrior government, is founded far from the emperor's court.
Mysteries of the Past, Political Turning Points & More
July 31st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The ancient capital of Ayutthaya that ruled a powerful kingdom for four centuries falls to invading Burmese forces and is completely destroyed. · Five nations sign a border-free travel agreement aboard a vessel beside the village that gives it its name. · A museum devoted to Van Gogh's work opens in its capital. · A Black Power protest movement in the Caribbean's southernmost twin-island nation triggers a state of emergency and an army mutiny. · Gentle white trolls debut in the first novel of a series published in 1945.
Remarkable Discoveries, Defining Moments & More
July 30th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The great High Dam is completed on the Nile. · A 67.5-metre obelisk is raised in its capital to commemorate the city's 400th anniversary. · A major Maya kingdom flourishes in the Copán Valley, filling its ceremonial center with temples, plazas, and carved stelae. · Mountain gorilla research begins at Karisoke, a volcanic highland research station. · After a major war ends, unemployed privateers turn New Providence into a pirate stronghold.
Cultural Milestones, Political Change & More
July 29th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A landmark performing arts complex officially opens on a southern harbor. · A former British colony gains independence on South America's northern coast, becoming the continent's only English-speaking country. · A Balkan republic becomes independent as Yugoslavia breaks apart peacefully. · The Bounty mutiny erupts beside the volcanic island of Tofua. · A Caribbean colony holds its first election under universal adult suffrage.
Monuments and Marvels, Political Turning Points & More
July 28th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Soldiers seize the president at his residence and fly him across the southeastern border to Costa Rica. · One of the world's oldest amusement parks, Tivoli Gardens, opens in its capital. · Rock-hewn churches rise at a pilgrimage center about 2,500 metres above sea level in the Lasta highlands. · Voters approve a constitution establishing its Fourth Republic, decades after it became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence. · A vast Hindu temple compound rises on southern Java near the boundary between two present-day provinces.
Discoveries, Historic Disasters & More
July 27th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The ancient Olympic Games begin at Olympia in classical antiquity. · A former South African mandate on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa becomes independent after decades of liberation struggle. · Rebels seize a fortress on the eastern side of Hispaniola, helping establish a new republic. · Authorities enter a university in the mountainous Kabylia region, intensifying protests for Berber language and cultural rights. · A powerful earthquake ruptures faults in this country's north, devastating nearby communities.
Power and Politics, Faith and Tradition & More
July 26th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Reagan and Gorbachev hold a dramatic 1986 arms-control summit there. · Saint Patrick returns as a missionary to the island traditionally associated with him. · Heinrich Schliemann excavates the site of Troy. · At its 1976 Summer Olympics, a gymnast scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic history. · A new constitution is promulgated there after 67% of voters approve it in a referendum.
World-Changing Inventions, Daring Voyages & More
July 25th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A new constitution replaces a charter that had lasted more than a century. · A genocide against the Tutsi begins after its president's plane is shot down. · An army orders folding knives with a can-opener from cutlers in two towns of its German-speaking region. · Prince Henry promoted colonization of its Atlantic islands during a regency. · Two heavyweight rivals meet for a third, brutal time in a capital whose name gives the bout its nickname.
Catastrophes, Wars and Uprisings & More
July 24th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes. · Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution. · The Klondike's gateway ports boom: Skagway and the Chilkoot Trail. · The first modern Olympic Games are held there. · A manor in Buckinghamshire becomes the principal center of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.
Catastrophes, Food and Drink & More
July 23rd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A magnitude-8 earthquake devastates its city built on an ancient lakebed. · A Normandy farmer is credited with first making a famous soft cheese. · Nelson's fleet captures or destroys 18 ships from a combined enemy fleet off Cape Trafalgar. · Under its Eighteenth Amendment, a nation begins a nationwide alcohol ban. · Its war of independence ultimately succeeds with the fall of the Derg regime.
Days of Destruction, Ingenious Creations & More
July 22nd, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A tsunami triggers the Fukushima nuclear disaster. · The world's first commercial public bungy site opens from the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge in this country. · The deepest hole ever drilled reaches over 12km deep. · A poet, painter, and printer of visions dies unsung. · A treaty at Karlowitz marks an empire's first great retreat.
Championship Drama, Power and Politics & More
July 21st, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky duel in the Match of the Century. · Madame Tussaud opens a wax museum in a great island capital. · European powers meet in its capital to regulate colonization and trade in Africa. · Two giant pandas arrive as diplomatic gifts at its National Zoo. · A former coastal port there contains ruins of a mosque, palace, houses, and tombs.
Political Turning Points, Architectural Wonders & More
July 20th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The first all-race general elections begin, opening a path for Mandela to become president. · The world's best-known museum of global treasures opens free to all. · A Central African federation dissolves, and this country becomes independent the following year. · Communities of escaped slaves in its Blue Mountains force a colonial treaty. · A great mosque rises on a site sacred to three faiths in its capital.
Lost Civilizations, Engineering Marvels & More
July 19th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Erbil, near the ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, claims the title of oldest continuously inhabited city. · The metro in this chaotic megacity becomes the first in the world to be certified by the UN for reducing carbon emissions. · A doctor persuades officials there to remove a pump handle during a cholera outbreak. · A young Liverpool band sharpens its act in a port city's Reeperbahn clubs. · Saladin destroys a crusader army near an extinct volcano.
Art and Culture, Food and Drink & More
July 18th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Lincoln delivers a two-minute address at Gettysburg. · A monk named Dom Pérignon made important contributions to the production of champagne wine. · A silver mountain funds a global empire. · A jazz-loving king begins a seven-decade reign there. · A revolutionary poet-priest becomes this country's culture minister.
Political Turning Points, Epic Journeys & More
July 17th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Jomo Kenyatta leads a British East African colony to independence before becoming its first president. · Lindbergh lands outside a major capital city after 33 hours alone over the Atlantic. · A ship explosion devastates a harbor city in this country, obliterating nearly all structures within 800 metres. · The world's oldest active alliance is sealed between a seafaring realm and mainland Europe's westernmost country. · Teaching begins around 1088 at what became the world's oldest continuously operating university in this country.
Discoveries, Famous Flavors & More
July 16th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: The CERN laboratory is established in Meyrin. · A strong-flavored dark brown spread, named through a national contest, goes on sale in this country. · A woman wins a presidential election in this country, becoming the continent's first elected female head of state. · An explorer reaches this country's coast after sailing from Spain. · The first old-age state pension system is enacted.
Power and Politics, Wild Places & More
July 15th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A British colonial administration is partitioned into two new nations at midnight, and its larger successor gains independence. · The terraced turquoise lakes of Plitvice become a national park. · The Rumble in the Jungle stuns the boxing world. · A physicist lifts off from Augsburg into the stratosphere in a sealed sphere. · Two men climb a white mountain and win a scientific prize.
Historical Discoveries, Crowns and Empires & More
July 14th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: Giant desert figures, also visible from surrounding foothills, receive their first in-depth study. · The Habsburg monarchy collapses as its ruler renounces participation in government affairs and its Alpine empire dissolves. · A dingo takes a baby, and a mother is wrongly convicted. · At a conference in its capital, nations choose Greenwich as the world's prime meridian. · Astronomers, among them a famed poet, reform the calendar at an imperial observatory.
Military Turning Points, Mysteries Revealed & More
July 13th, 2026
Five-event puzzle: A victory at Puebla against a better equipped force inspires Cinco de Mayo. · An astronomer discovers Pluto at an observatory in Arizona. · A Southeast Asian kingdom renames itself, choosing a name meaning 'land of the free'. · Vincent van Gogh dies after moving to a village inn. · Rome leaves an island province to defend itself.