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. Pedro Alvares Cabral's Portuguese fleet made landfall on the Atlantic coast of South America.
Answer: 🇧🇷 Brazil · Apr 1500
Cabral claimed the land for the Portuguese Crown, and it later became Brazil.
2. 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 as part of the first human settlement of Remote Oceania.
3. Construction began on a vast hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile near the border with Sudan.
Answer: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Apr 2nd, 2011
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is a hydroelectric project built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile.
4. An Abbasid caliph founded a new capital on the Tigris.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · AD 836
Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and became the caliphate's capital.
5. 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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