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1981 - Botham's Ashes

• The Liar by Fry Stephen

1981 Headingley - England beat Australia at Cricket

• The Liar by Fry Stephen

1981 Headingley - England win despite following on

• The Liar by Fry Stephen

American Revolution

• The Duchess by Foreman Amanda (1783)

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of France

• Atonement by David Hately (1940)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows (Harry Potter) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (BOOK 5) by J.K. ROWLING (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King v. 3 (Vol 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Penguin Summer Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

The Blitz

• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis
• Atonement by David Hately ([1940] ∙ [1941])

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Christmas

• The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis

Complete text first published in Great Britain, 1960

• Lady Chatterley's Lover, Including 'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover': A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Modern Classics) by D.H. Lawrence

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Creation of Narnia

• The Magicians Nephew by C.S Lewis

Creation of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Crowning of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Cyclone

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics) by L.Frank Baum

The death and resurrection of Aslan

• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis

the death of Beowulf

• Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) by R. K. Gordon

the death of Grendel

• Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) by R. K. Gordon

the death of Grendel's mother

• Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) by R. K. Gordon

The death of the White Witch

• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis

Destruction of Earth

• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy : A Novel (fictitious)

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Penguin Summer Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

The End of the Universe

• THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE by DOUGLAS ADAMS

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tale) by James Fenimore Cooper

French Revolution

• The Duchess by Foreman Amanda (1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gordon Riots

• The Duchess by Foreman Amanda (1780)

Great Depression

• Memoirs of a Geisha Uk by Arthur Golden

Great Panic

• World War Z by Max Brooks

Holocaust

• THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS by JOHN BOYNE (1945)

The Inquisition

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

invention of the printing press

• Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker (1440)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Marriage of Charles and Diana

• Money by Martin Amis (1981)

Martian invasion of Earth

• The War of the Worlds (Dover Thrift Editions) by H. G. Wells

Massachusetts colonial period

• The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1640s)

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park
• Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Penguin Summer Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage Classic) by William Styron (1831)

Passover Seder

• The assistant (Blackbirds) by Bernard Malamud

Plague caused by space-borne virus

• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Prohibition in the United States

• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)

The Reappearance of Earth

• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

The Rebellion

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens

The return of Father Christmas

• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis

Russian Revolution

• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1917)

Salem witch trials

• The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller (1692)

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (BOOK 4) by J.K. ROWLING

Two supreme court justices are murdered on the same day

• The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

Victorian Era

• Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings Comprising the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers and Return of the King in Slip Case by J.R.R. Tolkien

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Mila 18 by Leon Uris (1943)

When Dahl finishes school

• Boy: Tales of Childhood (New Windmills) by Roald Dahl

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War I

• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
• The Ghost Road (The regeneration trilogy) by Pat Barker
• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria; Murdoch Remarque, Brian (Translated by) (1918)
• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. by C.S. Lewis
• Mila 18 by Leon Uris
• Mudbound by Jordan Hillary
• THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS by JOHN BOYNE (1945)
• Memoirs of a Geisha Uk by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)
• Atonement by David Hately ([1939] ∙ [1945])

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z by Max Brooks
• The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks