Wherio · June 16th, 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. In April 1500, Pedro Alvares Cabral's Portuguese fleet made landfall on the Atlantic coast of South America.
Answer: 🇧🇷 Brazil · 1500-04
Cabral claimed the land for the Portuguese Crown, and it later became Brazil.
2. Around 1500 BC, migrants departing the Philippines first settled the first islands reached by humans in Remote Oceania.
Answer: 🇬🇺 Guam · c. 1500 BC
Guam was settled by migrants from the Philippines around 1500 to 1400 BC, as part of the first human settlement of Remote Oceania.
3. On April 2, 2011, construction began on a vast hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile near the border with Sudan.
Answer: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · April 2nd, 2011
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is a hydroelectric project built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile.
4. In 836, an Abbasid caliph founded a new capital on the Tigris.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · 0836
Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and became the caliphate's capital.
5. On May 9, 1877, a legislature on the lower Danube proclaimed independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Answer: 🇷🇴 Romania · May 9th, 1877
Romania's declaration of independence began its break from Ottoman suzerainty during the Romanian War of Independence.
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- On January 24, 1859, the assemblies of Moldavia and Wallachia elected Alexandru Ioan Cuza their common ruler, creating a personal union in eastern Europe.
- On 13 May 1888, a princess regent signed a law abolishing slavery in the last country in the Americas to do so.