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Summary: 62 Events.

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929) by Martin Luther King

American War of Independence

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Apocalypse

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945)

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Munda

• The Civil War: Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War (Classics) by Julius Caesar (45 B.C.E.)

Battle of Pharsalus

• The Civil War: Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War (Classics) by Julius Caesar

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Thapsus

• The Civil War: Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War (Classics) by Julius Caesar (46 B.C.E.)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Bloomsday - 6/16/1904

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Civil War

• The Civil War: Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War (Classics) by Julius Caesar (Ancient Rome)

Council of Nicaea

• A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius

Crimean War

• Finnegans Wake: Centennial Edition by James Joyce

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
• The Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible: Introduction and Commentary for Each Book of the Bible Including the Apocrypha, With General A by George A. Buttrick
• The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, Run (Popular Penguins) by John Updike

the death of Beowulf

• Beowulf by William Ellery Leonard

the death of Grendel

• Beowulf by William Ellery Leonard

the death of Grendel's mother

• Beowulf by William Ellery Leonard

The Deluge

• The epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars (Great Flood)

Destruction of Earth

• The Forge of God by Greg Bear

Destruction of the Naj Hammandi Scrolls

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Discovery of America

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Discovery of the Naj Hammandi Scrolls

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Dust Bowl Era

• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold

Edict of Toleration

• The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius

The Egyptian Campaign

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

English translation copyright Justin O'Brien 1955

• The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus

Enlightenment

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton

Eruption of Vesuvius

• Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris (79 AD)

Ford Day

• Brave New World (Bantam Books #HC206) by Aldous Huxley

French Revolution

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun
• The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
• The old régime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville (1789)
• The Rights of Man (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine (1789)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Indian Removal

• Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle

Industrial Revolution

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Jesus' Death and Resurrection

• ESV Compact Bible

Massachusetts colonial period

• The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1640s)

Nine Years War

• Brave New World (Bantam Books #HC206) by Aldous Huxley

nuclear winter

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Passover Seder

• Christ the Lord Out of Egypt: A Novel by Anne Rice

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Protestant Reformation

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Punic Wars

• Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles

Renaissance

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

• Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist

Revolution of 1848

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Romantic Movement

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Rwandan Genocide

• Glimpses beyond survival : Rwanda 1995 by Wilma Davidson (1994)
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (1994)

Thirty Years' War

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Trail of Tears

• Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle (1839)

Two Hundred Years' War

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Unanimity Day

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Visitation of Orithena

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson

War of the Usurper

• Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin

Winter

• Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin

World War I

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Éruption du Vésuve

• Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris (79)