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. 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.
2. An earthquake devastated a notorious Caribbean pirate port.
Answer: 🇯🇲 Jamaica · Jun 7th, 1692
The Jamaica earthquake devastated Port Royal.
3. 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.
4. 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. The death of a one or two-year-old boy in Méliandou marked the first known case of the largest Ebola epidemic.
Answer: 🇬🇳 Guinea · Dec 2013
The death of Emile Ouamouno in Guinea marked the first known case of the West African Ebola epidemic.
More historical events
- 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.
- King Ur-Nammu raises a great terraced platform to the moon god at the Mesopotamian city of Ur.
- An international coalition launches an air campaign over the Tigris and Euphrates heartland during the Gulf War.
- In the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, a caliph turns a library into a public academy.
- At a stadium concert during a violent election feud, a reggae star joins the hands of two rival party leaders on stage.
- A caliph begins construction of a circular capital city.