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Summary: 72 Events.

1046

• The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic by Avi

1851 revolution

• The Fortune of the Rougons (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola

1996 Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

American Civil War

• Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry
• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant (1865)
• The mysterious island by Jules Verne (1865)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1861, 1865)

American Revolution

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1783)
• The kingdom on the waves by M. T. Anderson (1783)

Apollo 13

• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger (1970-04-17)

Apollo program

• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger (1975)

Argentine Economic Crisis

• The Tango Singer: A Novel by Tomas Eloy Martinez (December 2001)

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

• Deep River by Shusaku Endo (1984-10-31)

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Black Death

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (1340s)

Bolshevik Revolution

• A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Professor Orlando Figes

Boston Tea Party

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1773-12-16)

Carolinas Campaign

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1865)

Chinese Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Cold War

• Krushchev by William Taubman

Conquest of Latin America

• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

Creation of Narnia

• The magician's nephew by C. S. Lewis

Cuban Revolution

• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Death of youngest person in the world

• The Children of Men by P.D. James

Discovery of Radium

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

Discovery of the Mississippi River

• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

Dust Bowl Era

• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (1939)

the Fenice fire

• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)

First Carlist Uprising, Spain

• The Bible in Spain: or the journeys adventures and imprisonments of by George Henry Borrow (1835-1839)

First Gulf War

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

French invasion of Russia

• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Great Depression

• The Outward Room by Millen Brand
• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Great Panic

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

Hitler sworn Chancellor

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

Hurricane Katrina

• The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Internment of Japanese Americans

• Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

Iran-Iraq War

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Japanese Invastion of Hong Kong

• The Samurai's Garden: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama

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)

King Philip's War

• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (1676-08)

Landing of the Pilgrims in the New World

• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

Lebanese Civil War

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Mexican-American War

• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant (1848)

Middle Ages

• Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill

Napoleonic Wars

• The Idiot (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Persuasion (World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

New Deal

• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey

Night of the Long Knives

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

Nuclear war

• The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Operation Barbarossa

• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor

Outrageously seedy belly dancing

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Pacific War

• Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook (1945)

Prague Spring (1968), Velvet Revolution

• To the Castle and Back (Vintage) by Vaclav Havel

Pueblo Uprising of 1680

• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

Russian Civil War

• A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Professor Orlando Figes (1921)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• Darkness at Noon (Modern Library Book No. 74) (1917)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)
• A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Professor Orlando Figes (1917)

Salon des Refusés

• The Masterpiece by Emile Zola (1863)

Second Empire, Napoleon III

• The Fortune of the Rougons (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola

Second Intifada

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Second Sudanese Civil War

• Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Sherman's March to the Sea

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1864)

Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

• Crabwalk by Gunter Grass (1945)

South Sea Bubble

• A conspiracy of paper : a novel by David Liss (1720)

Soviet-Afghan War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1936 ∙ 1939)

Spanish Influenza epidemic

• Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

Spanish State

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1939 ∙ 1947)

Three Mile Island

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Vietnam War

• Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

Voyage of the Mayflower

• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

World Trade Center Attacks

• Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors (2001-09-11)

World War I

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
• Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves (1918)

World War I

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

World War II

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
• Galina: A Russian Story by Galina Vishnevskaya
• Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews (1945)
• Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale (1945)
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor (1945)
• A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman (1945)
• Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook (1939-1945)

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks