Daily history quiz

Can you place the stories they never taught you?

Ten true stories from the archive, every one drawn from published sources. Your job: guess when each happened. New set every day.

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She Cataloged Mohács's Dead and Got Erased

A Hungarian needlewoman spent years cataloguing Ottoman battlefield corpses and became the first person in history to conduct a systematic military mortality study—then her conclusions got her quietly erased.

When did this happen?