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Summary: 59 Events.

1928

• Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The cultural front : the laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century by Michael Denning

American Civil War

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
• The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics) by Stephen Crane (1865)

Apocalypse

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Appin murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 (1752)

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of France

• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return OF The King ("The Lord Of The Rings" Part Three) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• THE TWO TOWERS - BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS - BALLANTINE 01534 by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1815)

Black Sox Scandal

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

The Blitz

• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan ([1940] ∙ [1941])

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cold War

• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

The Council of Elrond

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

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

French invasion of Russia

• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

French Revolution

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

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Hundred Days

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis Boxed Set by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iran–Iraq War

• Persepolis Boxed Set by Marjane Satrapi (1980 - 1988)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894

Jazz Age

• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Johnson County War

• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Classics) by Owen Wister (1892-04)

July Revolution

• Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (1832)

Lost Generation

• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Massachusetts colonial period

• The Scarlet Letter (Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1640s)

Murder of Pompey the Great

• Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw (September 29, 48 BCE)

Napoleonic Wars

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
• Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• Mansfield Park (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen
• Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Year Winter

• The leper of Saint Giles : the fifth chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Monk's-Hood. The 3rd Cadfael Chronicle by Ellis Peters (1154)
• One corpse too many : the second chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Saint Peter's Fair: Library Edition by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Sanctuary Sparrow (Brother Cadfael Mysteries) by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The virgin in the ice : the sixth chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)

Nuclear war

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

nuclear winter

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Plague caused by space-borne virus

• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Prohibition in the United States

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

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Bantam Classic) by Charles Dickens

Running of the Bulls

• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Sarah drives the wagon to town.

• Sarah, Plain and Tall (rpkg) (HarperClassics) by Patricia MacLachlan

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Spanish Civil War

• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1936 ∙ 1939)

Spanish State

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

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling

Two supreme court justices are murdered on the same day

• The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

War of the Roses

• Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War I

• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Library : an unquiet history by Matthew Battles (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Library : an unquiet history by Matthew Battles (1945)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan ([1939] ∙ [1945])

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell