Historical clue formulations

• Valletta's land — 2026-01-04
• Smallest member of the eurozone (122 square miles) — 2025-10-18
• Smallest country in the European Union (122 square miles) — 2025-03-25
• Island that's home to Popeye Village, a film-set-turned-theme-park — 2024-06-21
• Home of the prehistoric Ggantija temples — 2024-02-23
• Island nation south of Sicily — 2024-01-08
• Smallest country in the E.U., by area — 2022-07-31
• Country in the Mediterranean — 2022-05-31
• Island nation south of Sicily — 2022-01-04
• European country with a cross on its flag — 2021-02-10
• Country from which the name "Buttigieg" comes — 2020-09-16
• Country whose name is believed to come from ancient Greek for "honey-sweet" — 2020-07-31
• First-time Winter Olympics participant of 2014 — 2019-02-23
• Country south of Sicily — 2019-02-03
• Island nation with a cross on its flag — 2018-03-23
• Country with the smallest national capital in the European Union (about 9,000 people) — 2016-10-16
• European country whose flag features a George Cross — 2016-08-26
• Island nation for which a distinctive cat is named — 2015-05-25
• Its one-euro coin depicts a cross — 2014-12-27
• Country that includes the islands of Gozo and Comino — 2014-10-11
• Valletta is its capital — 2013-12-31
• Mediterranean island country — 2012-01-23
• Smallest member of the European Union — 2011-03-06
• Its coat of arms has a cross, but no falcon — 2011-02-28
• Island south of Sicily — 2010-09-21
• Mediterranean land — 2009-06-03
• It's north of Libya — 2008-10-11
• Country just south of Sicily — 2007-10-30
• 1945 conference site for Roosevelt and Churchill — 2007-09-14
• Mediterranean island country — 2007-09-11
• Where St. Paul was shipwrecked, in Acts — 2007-02-04
• Smallest member of the European Union — 2006-08-10
• Island country south of Sicily — 2006-01-30
• Island once controlled by Carthage — 2005-08-20
• Mediterranean cruise stop — 2005-07-17
• Home of the Knights Hospitalers — 2005-01-07
• Island south of Sicily — 2002-07-03
• Mediterranean land — 2002-07-01
• Mediterranean tourist destination — 2000-01-07
• Former NATO Mediterranean headquarters — 1998-04-02
• It became independent on 9/21/64 — 1996-05-05
• Island south of Sicily — 1996-04-15
• Its capital is Valetta — 1995-10-22
• W.W. II's most-bombed island — 1995-08-23
• Island near Sicily — 1994-11-08
• Knight spot? — 1994-10-06
• Valletta is its capital — 1994-05-02