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Summary: 90 Events.

780-1070

The Vikings by Else Roesdahl

African-American Civil Rights Movement

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

American Civil Rights movement

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Anglo-Nicaraguan Wars of '46

Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics) by Stella Gibbons

Apocalypse

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

The Visible World by Mark Slouka

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1945)

Batle at Burning plains

Eldest (Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Clontarf

Njal's Saga (Classics) by M. Magnusson (1014)

Battle of Five Armies

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hattin

The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana) by Desmond Seward

Battle of Hogwarts

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Adult Edition] (Harry Potter) by J.K. Rowling

Battle of Laverstoke

Watership Down [ Illustrated Edition ] by Richard Adams

Battle of Tannenburg

The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana) by Desmond Seward

Battle of Tewkesbury

Lancaster and York: Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1471-05-04)

Battle of the Atlantic

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (1945)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Battle of the Somme

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Battle of Towton

Lancaster and York: Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1461-03-29)

Battle of Vienna

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bilbo finds the One Ring

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Black Death

Medieval Economy and Society: Economic History of Britain, 1100-1500 by M M Postan (1347 - 1351)
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Werthei Tuchman (1340s)

Black Power Movement

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

blood -oath ceremony

Eldest (Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini

Bloody Assizes

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Boer War

Ladysmith by Giles Foden (1899-1902)

The Christian conversion of Iceland

Njal's Saga (Classics) by M. Magnusson (999)

Christmas

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Clube de Leitores de Entrecampos, 24 Junho 2009

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Cold War

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre

Crimean War

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde

The death of Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Adult Edition] (Harry Potter) by J.K. Rowling

The death of Smaug

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Destruction of Earth

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

Watership Down [ Illustrated Edition ] by Richard Adams

the disappearance of the Dolphins

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams

Dunkirk Evacuation

The Snow Goose; And The Small Miracle (Essential Penguin) by Paul Gallico (1941)

Dwarf's party at Bag End

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Edict of Fontainebleau

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Falklands War

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)

the Fenice fire

The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)

The Flood

The Flood by David Maine

Fourth Crusade

Baudolino by Umberto Eco (1204)

Glorious Revolution

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Depression

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Great Depression

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Great Fire of London

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Plague of London

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

Guadalcanal Campaign

Cryptonomicon by Neal STEPHENSON

Holocaust

Hundred Years' War

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Werthei Tuchman

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer

The Inquisition

Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman

Iran-Contra Affair

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

the killing of Danny Hansford

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

May Day

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Middle Ages

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Mint 400

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson

Monmouth Rebellion

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson

The Murder of Saville Kent

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (1860)

Napoleonic Wars

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

New Year's Day

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)

nuclear winter

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Operation Screaming Fist

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Pearl Harbor

Cryptonomicon by Neal STEPHENSON (1941)

Prohibition

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling

the reappearance of Earth

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams

The return of Lord Voldemort

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

Salem witch trials

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller (1692)

September 11 Attacks

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Siege of Malta

The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana) by Desmond Seward

Siege of Watership Down

Watership Down [ Illustrated Edition ] by Richard Adams

South Sea Bubble

Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (1720)

Soviet-Afghan War

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Spanish Civil War

Guernica: A Novel by Dave Boling (1939)
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom (1939)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway (1939)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1939)

Spanish Inquisition

The Purity of Blood (Adventures of Capt Alatriste 2) by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Terror

The Eight by Katherine Neville (1792-1793)

Third Anglo-Burmese War

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

Thirty Years' War

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

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

Trojan War

Ilium (Gollancz S.F.) by Dan Simmons

Vietnam War

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

Wars of the Roses

Lancaster and York: Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1485)

when they figured out whodunnit!

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

World War II

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
A Thread Of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (1945)
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (1945)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1939 ∙ 1945)
Cryptonomicon by Neal STEPHENSON (1939 ∙ 1945)

World War Terminus

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Panther Science Fiction) by Philip K. Dick

Zero threw the shoes over the bridge.

Holes by Louis Sachar

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