MySQL Cannot create EVENTs

I'm trying to create an EVENT to fire up at schedule everyday to update data in table. I have set the event_scheduler ON in MySQL with SET GLOBAL event_scheduler = ON; command, and this is what I see when I run the following:

MariaDB [hr]> SHOW PROCESSLIST;
+-----+-----------------+-----------+------+---------+-------+--------------------------+------------------+----------+
| Id  | User            | Host      | db   | Command | Time  | State                    | Info             | Progress |
+-----+-----------------+-----------+------+---------+-------+--------------------------+------------------+----------+
|   1 | system user     |           | NULL | Daemon  |  NULL | InnoDB purge coordinator | NULL             |    0.000 |
|   2 | system user     |           | NULL | Daemon  |  NULL | InnoDB purge worker      | NULL             |    0.000 |
|   3 | system user     |           | NULL | Daemon  |  NULL | InnoDB purge worker      | NULL             |    0.000 |
|   4 | system user     |           | NULL | Daemon  |  NULL | InnoDB purge worker      | NULL             |    0.000 |
|   5 | system user     |           | NULL | Daemon  |  NULL | InnoDB shutdown handler  | NULL             |    0.000 |
| 228 | event_scheduler | localhost | NULL | Daemon  | 10486 | Waiting on empty queue   | NULL             |    0.000 |
| 613 | root            | localhost | hr   | Query   |     0 | Init                     | SHOW PROCESSLIST |    0.000 |
+-----+-----------------+-----------+------+---------+-------+--------------------------+------------------+----------+
7 rows in set (0.000 sec)

So event_scheduler is indeed running. This is how I am creating the trigger:

CREATE EVENT update_attendance
  ON SCHEDULE
    EVERY 1 MINUTE
  DO
    UPDATE attendance SET markedAttendance = 1;

When I run this, it says Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec), but when I run SHOW EVENTS it returns an empty set. Also if I do DROP update_attendance it drops the event. The trigger is never executed even once. I am running XAMPP's MySQL on Windows 10. I do not understand what is going on. What am I doing wrong here?