Wherio · June 23rd, 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 14 July 1789, a crowd stormed a medieval fortress-prison in Western Europe, a turning point in a revolution.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · July 14th, 1789
The Storming of the Bastille became an iconic early event of the French Revolution in France.
2. On 6 February 1840, representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs signed a treaty at Waitangi in the southwestern Pacific.
Answer: 🇳🇿 New Zealand · February 6th, 1840
The Treaty of Waitangi is the 1840 agreement between the British Crown and Maori chiefs regarded as New Zealand's founding document.
3. On 20 September 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in the Caribbean, causing an island-wide blackout.
Answer: 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · September 20th, 2017
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane and devastated its electric grid.
4. In September 539 BC, a Persian army defeated Neo-Babylonian forces at Opis beside the Tigris.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · September 539 BC
The Battle of Opis was a decisive Persian victory in present-day Iraq during the conquest of Babylonia.
5. During the early 14th century, a coral-stone mosque on an island off this East African country's coast gained a large domed extension.
Answer: 🇹🇿 Tanzania · early 14th century
The Great Mosque of Kilwa on Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, gained its domed southern extension under Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman.
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