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Summary: 76 Events.

1936 Olympics

• Contact by Carl Sagan

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1941)

Battle of Clontarf

• Njal's Saga (Classics S.) by Magnus Magnusson (1014)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942)

Battle of Roncesvalles

• The song of Roland (Penguin classics-no.L75) (778)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Black Death

• A Distant Mirror by BARBARA W. TUCHMAN (1340s)

The Blitz

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ([1945])

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (1893)

The Christian conversion of Iceland

• Njal's Saga (Classics S.) by Magnus Magnusson (999)

Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Cleansing of Saidin

• Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) by Robert Jordan

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Vol 1 (The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Creation of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Crowning of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Crusadeds

• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville

Crusades

• Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte

The death and resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

The death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

End of Time

• The Dancers At The End Of Time (Tale of the Eternal Champion S.) by Michael Moorcock

First contact with the Thranx

• Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster

First Crusade

• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville (1096 ∙ 1099)

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco
• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville (1202 ∙ 1204)

Great Depression

• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Arthur Golden
• Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row (2 Books in 1) by John Steinbeck

The Great Wars

• The Elfstones of Shannara (Sword of Shannara) by Terry Brooks
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942-1943)

Guy Fawkes Night

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Hundred Year's War

• Saint Joan: A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue (Penguin books) by Bernard Shaw

Hundred Years' War

• A Distant Mirror by BARBARA W. TUCHMAN (1453)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

July Revolution

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1832)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Napoleonic Wars

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)

Nuclear winter

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

The Rebellion

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Reconciliation

• The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) by Clive Barker

Residential School

• Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Resurrection of the Dead

• Catechism of the Catholic Church by U.S. Catholic Church

The return of Father Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

Roland finds Eddie Dean

• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) by Stephen King (1987)

Roland finds Jack Mort

• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) by Stephen King (1977)

Roland finds Odetta Holmes

• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) by Stephen King (1964)

Russian Revolution

• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1917)

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Second Crusade

• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville

Seventh Crusade

• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville

Siege of La Rochelle

• Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas (1628)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King

Third Crusade

• Chronicles of the Crusades (Classics S.) by Jean de Joinville (1189 ∙ 1192)

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Races

• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

Winter

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

World War I

• City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
• The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman (1918)

World War II

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis
• Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1939-1945)
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)
• Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) by Art Spiegelman (1945)

World War III

• Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

World War Terminus

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

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

The Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)