Wherio · June 13th, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
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1. On August 31, 2016, the Senate of South America's largest country removed President Dilma Rousseff from office after an impeachment trial.
Answer: 🇧🇷 Brazil · August 31st, 2016
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff removed Brazil's president from office.
2. Around 1274 BC, Egyptian and Hittite armies fought one of history's earliest recorded battles beside the Orontes, near the ruins of Kadesh.
Answer: 🇸🇾 Syria · c. 1274 BC
The Battle of Kadesh was fought near Kadesh in modern Syria between the Egyptian and Hittite empires.
3. On July 1, 1690, William III defeated James II at the Battle of the Boyne, fought beside a river on the island west of Great Britain.
Answer: 🇮🇪 Ireland · July 1st, 1690
The Battle of the Boyne was William III's victory over James II in what is now Ireland.
4. On August 9, 1889, an area in a South Pacific archipelago declared itself an independent commune under elected mayor-president Ferdinand-Albert Chevillard.
Answer: 🇻🇺 Vanuatu · August 9th, 1889
Franceville was a short-lived independent commune in what is now Vanuatu.
5. In 1270, Yekuno Amlak overthrew the Zagwe dynasty and began a new Solomonic line in the highlands of East Africa.
Answer: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · 1270
Yekuno Amlak's victory ended the Zagwe dynasty and began Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty.
More historical events
- South America hosts its first Olympic Games in a famous Atlantic coastal metropolis.
- Voters become the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by referendum.
- In 1270, Yekuno Amlak overthrew the Zagwe dynasty and restored a dynasty claiming descent from King Solomon in the highlands of eastern Africa.
- On March 13, 2015, Cyclone Pam struck the former New Hebrides archipelago east of Australia, causing catastrophic damage.
- In May 1606, Pedro Fernandes de Queiros landed on a South Pacific island he named La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo, believing it was a southern continent.
- On 13 May 1888, a princess regent signed a law abolishing slavery in the last country in the Americas to do so.