Daily History Challenge · No. 27 · Saturday 25 July 2026 · Timeline

Puzzle No. 27: Timeline

The five events, earliest first: Fall of Nineveh and Collapse of Assyrian Power; Second Battle of Bach Dang: Dai Viet destroys the Yuan-Mongol fleet; Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America; Britain places the pound on the gold standard; Suez Crisis.

The correct order

612 BCEFall of Nineveh and Collapse of Assyrian Power

9 April 1288Second Battle of Bach Dang: Dai Viet destroys the Yuan-Mongol fleet

14 May 1607Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America

1821Britain places the pound on the gold standard

26 July to 7 November 1956Suez Crisis

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