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Summary: 85 Events.

1800s

• Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories (Bantam Classic) Volume I by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1928

• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

1959 Ilya Bodescu killed and Yulian born

• Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (Necroscope Trilogy, Volume 2) by Brian Lumley

1977 The Yulian Bodescu affair, INTESP and Russian E-Branch unite against the vampire threat, Harry adopts Kyle's body, Destruction of Chateau Bronnitsy

• Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (Necroscope Trilogy, Volume 2) by Brian Lumley

1996 Everest Disaster

• Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy by Lene Gammelgaard
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Age of Simplification

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Agreement of the Holy Scourge

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Alpha Centauri

• Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

American Civil War

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Apocalypse

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

The Big Bang

• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Bilbo finds the One Ring

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Blitz

• Fire Watch by Connie Willis

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (February 1945)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

c.1100 A recovered Faethor builds a new power base on the Hungary/ Wallachia border

• Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (Necroscope Trilogy, Volume 2) by Brian Lumley

c.990 Thibor becomes Faethor Ferenczy's "son"

• Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (Necroscope Trilogy, Volume 2) by Brian Lumley

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Cold War

• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• The Looking Glass War by John le Carre

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. TOLKIEN

the crowning of Aragorn

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

The death of Smaug

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Destruction of Earth

• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Isengard

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

the destruction of the One Ring

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

Discovery and Boarding of the "Nautilus"

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Dome Appears

• Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King

Dwarf's party at Bag End

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

End of the Third Age

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

End of the World

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Extinction of Homo sapiens

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Flame Deluge

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

The Great Depression

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Great Wars

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Holocaust

• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

the Illearth War

• The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book Two) by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Inquisition

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

Invention of the ansible

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Journey to the Grey Havens

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

Laredan-Texarkanan War

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Maelstrom

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1912)

Mint 400

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Napoleonic Wars

• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Nuclear winter

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

nuclear winter

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Operation Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Oregon Crusade

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Palm Sunday

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1942)

the Parting of the Fellowship

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1941)

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Potsdam Conference

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Scouring of the Shire

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Sighting of a Large "Sea Creature"

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Spanish Civil War

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)

Stole the Book

• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Thanksgiving

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Vietnam War

• Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

War of the Races

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest W6752 by Ken Kesey

World War I

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)

World War II

• The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
• Fire Watch by Connie Willis
• 1984 NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS) by GEORGE ORWELL
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1939 ∙ 1945)

World War II

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

World War III

• On the Beach by Nevil Shute

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)