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Summary: 134 Events.

100-year storm

• La tempête du siecle by Stephen King

1340s

• Eifelheim by Michael J. Flynn

Age of Simplification

• Un cantique pour Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller

Agreement of the Holy Scourge

• Un cantique pour Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller

Apocalypse

• La route by Cormac McCarthy

Armageddon

• De bons présages by Neil Gaiman

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 22/11/63 by Stephen King ([1963])

Baby Boom

• Cœurs perdus en Atlantide by Stephen King

Battle for the Katana fleet

• L’héritier de l’empire / La bataille des Jedi / L’ultime commandement by Timothy Zahn

Battle of Bilbringi

• L’héritier de l’empire / La bataille des Jedi / L’ultime commandement by Timothy Zahn

Battle of Britain

• Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Five Armies

• Le Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort by Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Battle of Poitiers

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1356)

Battle of Sluis Van

• L’héritier de l’empire / La bataille des Jedi / L’ultime commandement by Timothy Zahn

Battle of the Bulge

• Abattoir 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter et l'ordre du phénix by Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (fictitious)

Battle of the Hornburg

• Le retour du roi by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
• Les deux tours by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
• Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis ([1815])

The Big Bang

• Une brève histoire du temps by Stephen Hawking (c. 14,000,000,000 BCE)

Black Death

• Chroniques des années noires by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Eifelheim by Michael J. Flynn
• Le grand livre by Connie Willis

The Blitz

• Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis (1940 ∙ 1941)

Bombing of Dresden

• Abattoir 5 by Kurt Vonnegut ([1945])

Burial of Philippe IV

• La reine étranglée by Maurice Druon (1314)

Butlerian Jihad

• La bataille de Corrin by Brian Herbert
• La guerre des machines by Brian Herbert
• La route de Dune by Brian Herbert
• Le jihad butlérien by Brian Herbert
• L'empereur-dieu de Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• La maison des Atreïdes by Brian Herbert (mentioned)

Capture at Rouen and imprisonment of Charles the Bad by John II

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1356)

Capture of John II by Edward the Black Prince

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1356)

Cold War

• Les puissances de l'invisible by Tim Powers
• Tempête rouge by Tom Clancy

Coordinated Attack by the Tooks

• Le monde inverti by Christopher Priest

The Council of Elrond

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (fictitious)

The Council of Elrond

• La communauté de l'anneau by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Creation of the One Ring

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The Crowning of Aragorn

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (fictitious)

Crowning of Philippe V

• La loi des mâles by Maurice Druon (1317)

Cujo is infected with rabies

• Cujo by Stephen King

Death of Charles IV

• Le lis et le lion by Maurice Druon (1328)

Death of Edward II

• La louve de France by Maurice Druon (1327)

Death of Enguerrand de Marigny

• La reine étranglée by Maurice Druon (1315)

Death of Henri II, King of France

• La princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette (1559-07-10)

Death of Joan the Lame

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1348)

Death of Louis X

• Les poisons de la couronne by Maurice Druon (1316)

Death of Mary I, Queen of England

• La princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette (1558-11-17)

Death of Phillipe VI

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1350)

Death of Pope Clement V

• Le roi de fer by Maurice Druon (1314)

Death of youngest person in the world

• Les fils de l'homme by Phyllis Dorothy James

debut of The Ramones

• Dead Zone by Stephen King

Departure of Clementia of Hungary to France

• Les poisons de la couronne by Maurice Druon (1315)

Destruction of Earth

• Le général by Orson Scott Card
• Le guide galactique, tome 1 : Le routard galactique by Douglas Adams (fictitious)

Destruction of Isengard

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (fictitious)

Disappearance of Ennis Rafferty.

• Roadmaster by Stephen King

Dreyfus Affair

• Le cimetière de Prague by Umberto Eco

The Dust Bowl

• Les raisins de la colère by John Steinbeck

End of the Third Age

• Le silmarillion by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

End of the World Party

• Les lois de l'attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Establishment of Israel

• Le club des policiers yiddish by Michael Chabon

Execution of Jacques de Molay

• Le roi de fer by Maurice Druon (1314)

Expedition of the Thousand

• Le cimetière de Prague by Umberto Eco (1861)

First atomic explosion

• La fin de l'éternité by Isaac Asimov

Flame Deluge

• Un cantique pour Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller

Ford Day

• Le meilleur des mondes by Aldous Huxley

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Franco-Prussian War

• Le cimetière de Prague by Umberto Eco (1871)

French Resistance

• Le silence de la mer by Vercors

Gerald Ford Presidency

• Dead Zone by Stephen King

German occupation of the English Channel Islands

• Le cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates by Mary Ann Shaffer

Giannino Baglioni's claim of being John I of France

• Le lis et le lion by Maurice Druon (1356)

Gilded Age

• Passage by Connie Willis

Great Depression

• Des souris et des hommes by John Steinbeck
• Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Les raisins de la colère by John Steinbeck

Halloween

• 22/11/63 by Stephen King (1958)

Holocaust

• Le choix de Sophie by William Styron
• Le club des policiers yiddish by Michael Chabon
• Les extraordinaires aventures de Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Journal by Anne Frank (1939-1945)

Industrial Revolution

• Espace vital by Isaac Asimov

the Innsmouth raid

• Le cauchemar d'Innsmouth by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The Inquisition

• Les royaumes du nord by Philip Pullman

Interbellum

• Le crime de l'Orient-Express by Agatha Christie (1939)

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Étoile errante by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Italian unification

• Le cimetière de Prague by Umberto Eco (1871)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• Les extraordinaires aventures de Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Laredan-Texarkanan War

• Un cantique pour Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller

Marriage of Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut

• Le lis et le lion by Maurice Druon (1328)

Marriage of Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry

• La princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette (1559)

Marriage of Phillipe VI and Blanche of Navarre

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1350)

Martian invasion of Earth

• La guerre des mondes by Herbert George Wells

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• Une place à prendre by Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Middle Ages

• Le grand livre by Connie Willis

Monmouth Rebellion

• Les voies d'Anubis by Tim Powers

Mourning of Louis X's death

• La loi des mâles by Maurice Druon (1316)

My Lai Massacre

• Cœurs perdus en Atlantide by Stephen King

Napoleonic Wars

• L'empire d'ivoire by Naomi Novik
• La victoire des aigles by Naomi Novik
• Le trône de jade by Naomi Novik
• Les dragons de sa majesté by Naomi Novik
• Par les chemins de la soie by Naomi Novik
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis (1803 ∙ 1815)

Nine Years War

• Le meilleur des mondes by Aldous Huxley

Nuclear war

• Chroniques martiennes by Ray Bradbury
• Sa majesté des mouches by William Golding

nuclear winter

• La route by Cormac McCarthy

Oregon Crusade

• Un cantique pour Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller

Paris Commune

• Le cimetière de Prague by Umberto Eco (1871)

Peace Talks between France and England, promoted by Pope Innocent VI

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon ([1353])

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

President's Day Massacre

• La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood

Project Amal

• La maison Corrino by Brian Herbert
• La maison des Atreïdes by Brian Herbert
• La maison Harkonnen by Brian Herbert

The Rebellion

• La ferme des animaux by George Orwell

Resurrection of the Dead

• Espace vital by Isaac Asimov

Revolution to overthrow the US Government

• La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood

Roger Mortimer's escape from the Tower of London

• La louve de France by Maurice Druon (1322)

Roland finds Eddie Dean

• Les trois cartes by Stephen King (1987)

Roland finds Jack Mort

• Les trois cartes by Stephen King (1977)

Roland finds Odetta Holmes

• Les trois cartes by Stephen King (1964)

Roland reaches the Dark Tower

• La tour sombre by Stephen King

Rose's escape

• Rose Madder by Stephen King

Rum Rebellion

• Langues de serpents by Naomi Novik

Russian Revolution

• La ferme des animaux by George Orwell (1917)

The Scattering

• La maison des mères by Frank Herbert
• Les hérétiques de Dune by Frank Herbert

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancien by William Gibson

September 11 Attacks

• Windows on the world by Frédéric Beigbeder (2001-09-11)

Sinking of the Titanic

• Passage by Connie Willis (1912)

Spanish Civil War

• L'ombre du vent by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1936 ∙ 1939)

Spanish State

• L'ombre du vent by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1939 ∙ 1947)

Stalinism

• Une journée d'Ivan Denissovitch by Alexandre Soljenitsyne ([1924, 1953])

Superflu epidemic

• Le fléau by Stephen King

Total eclipse of the sun

• Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (July 20, 1963)
• Jessie by Stephen King (July 20, 1963)

Tour de Nesle Affair

• Le roi de fer by Maurice Druon (1314)

Treaty of Mantes

• Quand un roi perd la France by Maurice Druon (1354)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter et la coupe de feu by Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Trojan War

• Ilium by Dan Simmons

United States presidential election

• Dead Zone by Stephen King (1976)

Victorian Era

• Le portrait de Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Vietnam War

• Cœurs perdus en Atlantide by Stephen King

War of the Ring

• Le seigneur des anneaux by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Watergate Scandal

• Dead Zone by Stephen King (1974)

World War I

• Un long dimanche de fiançailles by Sébastien Japrisot
• La mystérieuse affaire de Styles by Agatha Christie (1918)

World War II

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Abattoir 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
• Espace vital by Isaac Asimov
• L'enfant allemand by Camilla Läckberg
• La séparation by Christopher Priest
• La vie aux aguets by William Boyd
• Le joueur d'échecs by Stefan Zweig
• Le maître du haut château by Philip Kindred Dick
• Le silence de la mer by Vercors
• Les extraordinaires aventures de Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Les forbans de Cuba by Dan Simmons
• Étoile errante by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
• Le complot contre l'Amérique by Philip Roth (1945)
• Les puissances de l'invisible by Tim Powers (1945)
• Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis (1939 ∙ 1945)
• Geisha by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)
• Journal by Anne Frank (1939-1945)
• Le cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates by Mary Ann Shaffer (German Occupation)

World War II German Occupation of France

• Le silence de la mer by Vercors
• Les puissances de l'invisible by Tim Powers

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Le facteur by David Brin

World War Terminus

• Blade runner by Philip Kindred Dick

The Xenocide of the Formics

• La stratégie de l'ombre by Orson Scott Card
• La stratégie Ender by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)