Dossier №230
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- 01
2,023 AD
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission makes a soft landing near the Moon’s south polar region.
This question uses 2023 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.
India became the fourth country to land successfully on the Moon and the first to reach that high-latitude region.
- 02
1,859 AD
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
This question uses 1859 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.
The book presented natural selection as a mechanism through which populations change over generations.
- 03
1,923 AD
The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed with Ankara as its capital.
This question uses 1923 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.
The new state emerged from the Ottoman Empire’s defeat and a nationalist war led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
- 04
537 AD
Justinian dedicates the vast domed church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
This question uses 537 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.
Its innovative structure embodied imperial Christian authority and later served as a mosque, museum, and mosque again.
- 05
1,274 BC
Egyptian and Hittite armies clash near Kadesh in a vast chariot battle.
Both sides claimed success, and diplomacy eventually outlasted the battlefield.
Ramesses II’s forces fought the army of the Hittite king Muwatalli II in Syria. This game uses 1274 BCE from the standard low chronology; Egyptian monuments celebrated a heroic victory, while the strategic result was inconclusive.
Kadesh battle relief collection recordThe British Museum · verified 2026-08-06
The British Museum catalogue uses 1275 BCE for Qadesh; the game uses 1274 BCE from the standard low chronology and exposes this one-year variance.