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Summary: 110 Events.

2012 Summer Olympics

• Private games by James Patterson

The 74th Hunger Games

• The hunger games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Abdication of Edward VIII

• That woman : the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba (1936)

Abolitionist Movement

• Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
• All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery by Henry Mayer (U.S. history)

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography by Errol Morris

Age of Simplification

• A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Agreement of the Holy Scourge

• A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

American Civil War

• The union quilters : an Elm Creek quilts novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant (1865)
• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (1861 ∙ 1865)
• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart (1861-1865)
• Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever by Bill O'Reilly (1861-1865)

Anne Boleyn's execution

• Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Anschluss

• The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss by Edmund De Waal

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever by Bill O'Reilly (April 14, 1865)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president by Candice Millard

Assassination of President William McKinley

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (Sept. 6, 1901)

Battle of Alexandria

• The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of the Alamo

• David Crockett : the lion of the west by Michael Wallis (1836-03-06)

Battle of the Nile

• The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of the Pyramids

• The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of Tours, 732

• Holy war : how Vasco da Gama's epic voyages turned the tide in a centuries-old clash of civilizations by Nigel Cliff

Battles with the Taliban

• Against all enemies by Tom Clancy

The Bible Riots

• A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history by Kenneth C. Davis (1844)

The Big Bang

• A universe from nothing : why there is something rather than nothing by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

Birth of Diana's Firedrake, Corra

• Shadow of night : a novel (All Souls trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

Birth of Joseph Pulitzer

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (April 10, 1847)

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of night : a novel (All Souls trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

Birth of Stephen T. Colbert

• I am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert

The Blitz

• The postmistress by Sarah Blake

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1905)

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Cold War

• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Compromise of 1850 [1850]

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Confederacy

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Creation of St. Louis Post and Dispatch

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (1878)

Crimean War

• Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography by Errol Morris

Crittenden Compromise

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Cuban Missil Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Death

• The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers - how medicine is blurring the line between life and death by Dick Teresi

Death of Joseph Pulitzer

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (Oct. 29, 1911)

Dred Scott Decision

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Dreyfus Affair

• The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss by Edmund De Waal
• The Prague cemetery by Umberto Eco

Election of 1860

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Endurance Expedition

• The endurance : Shackleton's legendary Antartic expedition by Caroline Alexander (1917)

Expedition of the Thousand

• The Prague cemetery by Umberto Eco (1861)

February Revolution

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1917)

Flame Deluge

• A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Franco-Prussian War

• The Prague cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

French and Indian War

• Crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson (1754 ∙ 1763)

Great Depression

• End this depression now! by Paul Krugman
• Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
• Water for elephants by Sara Gruen (1929)

Great Leap Forward

• Dreams of joy by Lisa See (1958-1961)

Great Recession

• End this depression now! by Paul Krugman

Hartford circus fire

• The circus fire : a true story by Stewart O'Nan (1944-07-06)

Hitler sworn Chancellor

• In the garden of beasts : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin] by Erik Larson

Holocaust

• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
• The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss by Edmund De Waal
• The postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Holocaust

• Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Holodomor

• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (1933)

Hurricane Katrina

• Salvage the bones by Jesmyn Ward
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their eyes were watching God : with a forward by Edwidge Danticat by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

An invatation to Spain.

• Against all enemies by Tom Clancy

Italian unification

• The Prague cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

Jazz Age

• The Paris wife by Paula McLain

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1859, October 16-18)

John F. Kennedy Assassination

• I'll never get out of this world alive by Steve Earle ([1963])

The journey of the terrorist to the US and their attacks on civil aircraft.

• Against all enemies by Tom Clancy

Katherine of Aragon's death

• Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Killing of Osama bin Laden

• No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Laredan-Texarkanan War

• A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Lincoln's assassination

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Mexican-American War

• What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant (1848)

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Movement of drugs north and payments south across the US / Mexico border.

• Against all enemies by Tom Clancy

Murder of St. Thomas a' Becket

• Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold by John Guy

Napoleonic Wars

• Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution by Rebecca Stott

Night of the Long Knives

• In the garden of beasts : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin] by Erik Larson

October Revolution

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1917)

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their eyes were watching God : with a forward by Edwidge Danticat by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Operation Mincemeat

• Operation mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory by Ben Macintyre

Oregon Crusade

• A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Paris Commune

• The Prague cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

Pulitzer Prize

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris

Purchase of New York World from Jay Gould

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (1883)

Rebellion against the Capitol

• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Red Stick War

• A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history by Kenneth C. Davis (1814)

Republican National Convention 1860

• 1861 : the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Sacco & Vanzetti Trial, Nuremberg Trial

• Scorpions : the battles and triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court justices by Noah Feldman

Sacrifice of Isaac

• Fear and trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Bay

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (Feb. 15, 1898)

Sinking of the Titanic

• Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world by Hugh Brewster (1912)

Spanish Civil War

• Winter of the world by Ken Follett
• The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1936 ∙ 1939)

Spanish State

• The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1939 ∙ 1947)

Spanish-American War

• Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power by James McGrath Morris (1898)

Spring Offensive

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1918)

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution by Rebecca Stott

Thirty Years' War

• Mother courage and her children : a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War by Bertolt Brecht

Treaty of Paris

• Crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson (1763)

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Triangle : the fire that changed America by Dave Von Drehle (1911)

United States occupation of Veracruz

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1914)

US Presidential Election

• Barack Obama : the story by David Maraniss (2008)

Victorian Era

• The night circus by Erin Morgenstern

War of 1812

• Empire of liberty : a history of the early republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford history of the United States) by Gordon S. Wood

War of the Roses

• The lady of the rivers : a novel (the cousins' war) by Philippa Gregory

Wars of the Roses

• The kingmaker's daughter by Philippa Gregory

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War I

• A bitter truth by Charles Todd
• The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss by Edmund De Waal
• The shoemaker's wife : a novel by Adriana Trigiani
• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• And so it goes : Kurt Vonnegut : a life by Charles J. Shields
• Beautiful ruins by Jess Walter
• The color purple / The temple of my familiar by Alice Walker
• Operation mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory by Ben Macintyre
• Winter of the world by Ken Follett
• Home : a memoir of my early years by Julie Andrews (1945)
• December 1941 : 31 days that changed America and saved the world by Craig Shirley (1939-1945)
• A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos (1939-1945)
• Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (1939-1945)
• A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France by Caroline Moorehead (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• The postmistress by Sarah Blake

World's Columbian Exposition

• The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)