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Summary: 154 Events.

1100s

• Morrigan's Cross (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1) by Nora Roberts

1960s

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

1970s

• The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff

Accession of Elizabeth I

• The Virgin's Lover (Boleyn) by Philippa Gregory (1558-11-17)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner: A Novel by Khaled Hosseini

American Civil War

• Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris ([1861] ∙ [1865])
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1861] ∙ [1865])

American Revolution

• Revolutionary War On Wednesday (Magic Tree House #22) by Mary Pope Osborne (1783)

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1839)

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• The Attack: Novel by Yasmina Khadra

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King ([1963])

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1971)

Babington Plot

• Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (WWI)

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Birth of Christ

• Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

Birth of Jesus

• Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (1347 - 1351)

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Burning of the bamboo books

• Day of the Dragon King (Magic Tree House #14) by Mary Pope Osborne

California Gold Rush

• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Chappaquiddick Incident

• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1969-07-19)

Chicago World's Fair

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

Chilean Coup

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Civil Rights Movement

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cold War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Complete text first published in Great Britain, 1960

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by David H. Lawrence

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Cyclone

• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

The Deluge

• Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (Great Flood)

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• Dissolution by C. J. Sansom (1536-1541, England)

Dorr Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1841] ∙ [1842])

Dracula Night

• A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #4.1, #4.3, #5.1, #7.1, #8.1) by Charlaine Harris

Easter Uprising, 1916

• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill

El Mozote Massacre

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1981)

English Civil War

• As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

Feminist Movement

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

First Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1896, 1897])

Flour Riot of 1837 [1837] [1837, 1837] [1837, 1837, 1837, 1837]

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

French Resistance

• Code Name Verity (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) by Elizabeth Wein
• Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert

French Revolution

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser (1789)

Gilded Age

• Passage by Connie Willis

Great Depression

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Revelation

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead and Gone (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 9) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead To The World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 6) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris
• Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) by Charlaine Harris (fictional)

Greek Civil War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1945] ∙ [1949])

Greg keeps eating the gingerbread house

• Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) by Jeff Kinney

Halloween

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (1958)

Harpers Ferry Raid

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1859)

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Haymarket Affair

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1886)

Hitler sworn Chancellor

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

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (1939-1945)
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman (1939-1945)

Hurricane Katrina

• All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) by Charlaine Harris

Ice Age

• Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House #7) by Mary Pope Osborne

Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1998] ∙ [1999])

Imprisonment & Execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family

• Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Indonesian invasion of East Timor

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1975)

The Inquisition

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

Interbellum

• Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)

Invasion of Grenada

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1983)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1979)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iran–Iraq War

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (1980 - 1988)

Jazz Age

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Kidnapping of Six Warrantors of the Peace of the Federation

• Dwellers in the Crucible (Star Trek) by Margaret Wander Bonnano

Korean War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1950] ∙ [1953])

Lebanese Civil War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1975] ∙ [1990])

Lost Generation

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (1963-08-28)

Mayaguez incident

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1975)

Mexican War

• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play by Jerome Lawrence

Mexican-American War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1846] ∙ [1848])

Middle Ages

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House #2) by Mary Pope Osborne

Million Man March

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

My Lai Massacre

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1968)

Napoleonic Wars

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1831)

New York

• Time and Again by Jack Finney (1865-1898)

Night of the Long Knives

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

Nixon Resignation

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1974)

Nuclear war

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Oklahoma City Bombing

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Operation Gothic Serpent

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1993)

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Pax Romana

• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieva by Thomas Cahill

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Persian Gulf War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1990] ∙ [1991])

Philippine-American War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1899] ∙ [1902])

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

President's Day Massacre

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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

Rebellion against the Capitol

• Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Resurrection of Christ

• Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell

Revolution to overthrow the US Government

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Rhodesian Bush War

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1964, 1979])

Rodrick has a party in his house without asking his mom or dad

• Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) by Jeff Kinney

Roe v. Wade

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Roman Invasion of Britain

• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieva by Thomas Cahill

Rowley gets a babysitter

• Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) by Jeff Kinney

Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Rwandan Genocide

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1994)

Sack of Rome

• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieva by Thomas Cahill

Salem witch trials

• A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi (1692)
• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton (1693)
• The Salem Witch Trials Reader by Frances Hill (1693)

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (1906)

Second Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1966, 1980])

Seminole Wars

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1817] ∙ [1858])

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Shays' Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1786] ∙ [1787])

Sierra Leone Civil War

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

sinking of the Sussex

• Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund

Sinking of the Titanic

• Passage by Connie Willis (1912)

Slow Food Movement

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Son of Sam Killings

• The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (1976-1977)

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Soviet-Afghan War

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

Spanish Civil War

• Hons and Rebels: The Classic Memoir of One of the Century's Most Extraordinary Families by Jessica Mitford
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Spanish-American War

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (1898)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1898)

Stonewall Riots

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1969)

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See

Three Mile Island Accident

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1979)

Trail of Tears

• Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell (1839)

United States invasion of Panama

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1989] ∙ [1990])

United States presidential election

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (2000)

Vietnam War

• Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram by Dang Thuy Tram
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1959] ∙ [1975])

Visit to Nutcracker Inn, Black Creek, Moose County, Maine, United States of America

• The Cat Who Went Up the Creek (Cat Who...) by Lilian Jackson Braun

the Voodoo Wars

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Waco Branch Davidian Siege

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1993)

War in Afghanistan

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([2001])

War on Terrorism

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Watergate Scandal

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• Personal History by Katharine Graham

When Dahl finishes school

• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

World War

• Night by Elie Wiesel (1939-1945)

World War I

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
• Drink to Yesterday by Manning Coles
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Alice I Have Been: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin (1918)
• Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company by James R. Mellow (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1914] ∙ [1918])

World War II

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• Code Name Verity (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) by Elizabeth Wein
• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company by James R. Mellow (1945)
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden (1939-1945)
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman (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 by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ([1939] ∙ [1945])

World War II German Occupation of France

• Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell

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)

Wounded Knee incident

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

WTO Protests of 1999 [1999] [1999, 1999] [1999, 1999, 1999, 1999]

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn