Wherio · June 26th, 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. Around 900 BC, Lapita settlers established Nukuleka on the main island of a South Pacific kingdom.
Answer: 🇹🇴 Tonga · c. 900 BC
Lapita settlers established Nukuleka on Tonga's main island by around 900 BC.
2. On June 7, 1692, an earthquake devastated a notorious Caribbean pirate port.
Answer: 🇯🇲 Jamaica · June 7th, 1692
The 1692 Jamaica earthquake devastated Port Royal.
3. In 1258, Mongol forces captured the Abbasid capital on the Tigris, ending the caliphate's rule there.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · 1258
The Siege of Baghdad in Iraq ended Abbasid rule in the city in 1258.
4. In 1876, rebels in the Sredna Gora and northwestern Rhodopes rose against Ottoman rule.
Answer: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · 1876
The April Uprising was a revolt against Ottoman rule in Bulgaria that was violently suppressed.
5. In December 2013, the death of a one or two-year-old boy in Méliandou marked the first known case of the largest Ebola epidemic.
Answer: 🇬🇳 Guinea · December 2013
The death of Emile Ouamouno in Guinea marked the first known case of the 2013 to 2016 West African Ebola epidemic.
More historical events
- In 1862, a law code formulated by an assembly of chiefs was issued in a South Pacific island kingdom; the assembly had first met three years earlier.
- Voters between the Tigris and Euphrates approve a permanent constitution after the fall of a dictatorship.
- A blue gate of glazed dragons and bulls rises over a processional way.
- A coral 'Stonehenge of the Pacific' trilithon is raised.
- A prince proclaims its full independence from Ottoman rule in an old capital, then takes the title tsar.
- A submarine volcano north of the main island erupts with a blast that sends tsunamis across the Pacific.