Statistics for City Where It Happened #3

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Year	Event	City	% Correct
2019	First known outbreak of Covid-19	Wuhan	92%
1896	The first modern Olympic Games	Athens	86%
1942–1944	Anne Frank and her family hide from Nazis in a concealed apartment	Amsterdam	82%
c. 30	Jesus is crucified by the Romans	Jerusalem	74%
1870	Radicals establish a "commune" which rules the city for two months	Paris	65%
1497	Vasco da Gama departs on his voyage to India	Lisbon	64%
30 BC	Cleopatra commits suicide, possibly via snakebite	Alexandria	63%
1940	British troops evacuate France aboard a flotilla of small craft	Dunkirk	63%
1919	Germany signs a treaty to officially end WWI and pay hefty war reparations to the allied powers	Versailles	63%
632	Death of Muhammad	Medina	52%
1757	Casanova escapes from his prison cell in the doge's palace	Venice	52%
1998	The "Good Friday Agreement" is signed	Belfast	51%
1996	Tupac Shakur is shot and killed after attending a boxing match	Las Vegas	51%
1945	100,000 die in the deadliest single air raid of all time	Tokyo	45%
1492	The last Muslim ruler in Spain surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella	Granada	35%
1618	Three Catholics are defenestrated (thrown out a window)	Prague	35%
1942	80,000 British troops surrender to the Japanese, which Churchill calls the "worst disaster" in British military history	Singapore	34%
1664	Newton begins inventing what is today known as calculus	Cambridge	33%
1942	Enrico Fermi and other scientists build the world's first nuclear reactor	Chicago	32%
1905	While working as a patent examiner, Albert Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity	Bern	26%