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Summary: 67 Events.

1896

• The Alienist: A Novel by Caleb Carr

Abolitionist Movement

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks

Abstract Expressionist movement

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd

Adoption of the United States Constitution

• The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Alexander Hamilton

American Civil War

• Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Cherie Priest
• East of Eden: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1861 ∙ 1865)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1861, 1865)

American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1775 ∙ 1783)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Shiloh

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson ([1862] ∙ [1862])

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ([1804])

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Carolinas Campaign

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

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)

Clutter family murder

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

Cold War

• A Perfect Spy: A Novel by John le Carre
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo

Constitutional Convention

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Cuban Missil Crisis

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1962)

Dreyfus Affair

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck

Elizabeth II's coronation

• The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami

Expedition of the Thousand

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1861)

Franco-Prussian War

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

French Revolution

• Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Vintage) by Simon Schama (1789)

Glasgow International Exhibition

• Gillespie and I: A Novel by Jane Harris (1888)

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Holocaust

• Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell (1945)

Hurricane Katrina

• Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Italian Campaign

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Italian unification

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks (1859)

Marilyn Sheppard Murder

• Mr. Peanut (Borzoi Books) by Adam Ross (1954-07-04)

Mexican-American War

• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1846 ∙ 1848)

Middle Ages

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Mountain Meadows Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Sept. 11, 1857)

Murder of Sir Harry Oakes

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd

Napoleonic Wars

• His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik

Nigerian-Biafran War

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (1154)

Operation Barbarossa

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

Paris Commune

• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (1871)

Pottawatomie Massacre

• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks (1856)

Prohibition in the United States

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

Red Army Faction activities

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd

Revolutions of 1848

• Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Vintage International) by Thomas Mann (1848)

The Scattering

• Chapterhouse: Dune (The Dune Chronicles) by Frank Herbert
• Heretics of Dune (Dune Chronicles) by Frank Herbert

September 11 Attacks

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2001-9-11)

Sherman's March to the Sea

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

Soviet-Afghan War

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (1989)

Spanish Civil War

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd

Spanish-American War

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1898)

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (1572)

United States presidential election

• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (1964)

Vietnam War

• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five 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 by George R. R. Martin

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

• East of Eden: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1918)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Any Human Heart (Vintage International) by William Boyd
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell (1945)
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor (1945)

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)
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1893 ! Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Yorkshire Ripper Murders

• Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by David Peace (1980)