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Terra Tempus Daily #74 — August 13, 2026
These are the 5 rounds every player got on August 13, 2026, with the answers and the history behind them. This day is finished, so nothing here spoils a puzzle you can still play — today’s Daily Challenge is a different five events.
Not enough completed runs on this day to report an average without singling out an individual player’s score — we publish one from 5 finishers up.
Round 1
Battle of Nedao
Battle of Nedao · 454 · Antiquity
Why there: The Pannonian plain along the Nedao river was the grassy heartland where the Hunnic empire had settled its horse herds and subject Germanic peoples, so the revolt naturally erupted on the very lowlands the Huns used as their base of power.
Why then: The death of Attila in 453 removed the singular leader who held the confederation together, and with his sons splitting the subject tribes among themselves like property, the resentful Gepids and other vassals seized that succession crisis as the moment to break free.
- The Battle of Nedao (454 CE) followed the death of Attila the Hun the previous year.
- A coalition led by the Gepid king Ardaric defeated Attila's sons, ending Hunnic dominance in Central Europe.
- It was fought in Pannonia, in the region of modern Serbia.
Round 2
Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of Breitenfeld · 1631 · Early Modern
Why there: The battle unfolded on the open plains near Leipzig, a wealthy Saxon trading hub in central Germany that sat astride the routes the Swedish and imperial armies both needed to control as they contested the Protestant heartland.
Why then: By 1631 the Thirty Years' War had turned decisively when Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus intervened with a reformed army whose lighter, mobile linear tactics and integrated field artillery outclassed the old massed tercio formations still used by the Catholic imperial forces.
- The Protestant king won his first major victory of the Thirty Years' War here in 1631.
- His combined-arms tactics shattered the army of the Catholic League's veteran commander.
- The win opened much of Catholic Germany to Protestant campaigning.
Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
Battle of Crécy
Battle of Crécy · 1346 · Medieval
Why there: Edward III's raiding army, retreating through northern France toward Flanders, halted near Crécy where a low ridge and forested flanks let him pin his back to safety and force the pursuing French to attack uphill on ground he chose.
Why then: The opening decades of the Hundred Years' War pitted a rising English dynasty claiming the French throne against a feudal French host still wedded to the mounted knightly charge, just as the massed English longbow was maturing into a battle-winning weapon that could break that cavalry.
- The Battle of Crécy (1346) was a decisive early English victory in the Hundred Years' War.
- The English longbow devastated the French cavalry and Genoese crossbowmen.
- The blind King John of Bohemia died in the charge; his ostrich-feather emblem was adopted by the Black Prince.
Every Daily Challenge is five real events, one from each of five different eras, identical for every player, scored up to 10,000 points a round on how close you land in space and in time. Read how to play, see where the events come from, or play today’s.
