Daily History Challenge · No. 83 · Saturday 19 September 2026 · Timeline

Puzzle No. 83: Timeline

The five events, earliest first: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Narmer; The Kalinga War and Ashoka's turn to Dhamma; The Enlightenment (Age of Reason); The Second Italian War of Independence and the Battle of Solferino; Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo.

The correct order

c. 3100 BCEUnification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Narmer

c. 261 BCEThe Kalinga War and Ashoka's turn to Dhamma

c. 1685 to 1815The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)

April to July 1859The Second Italian War of Independence and the Battle of Solferino

6 to 25 October 1973 (war); embargo Oct 1973 to Mar 1974Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo

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