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Summary: 126 Events.

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres

1960s

• Love Me Tender by Libby Hathorn

1980s

• So much to tell you by John Marsden

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (September 1943)

American Civil War

• Fables Volume 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words by Simon Winchester

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

Ascension

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassins by Stephen Sondheim (1865-04)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Assassins by Stephen Sondheim (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Assassins by Stephen Sondheim (1963-11-22)

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassins by Stephen Sondheim (1901-09)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient (Bloomsbury Classic) by Michael Ondaatje (1945)

Augustine's conversion

• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo

Authorized Version/King James Bible Published

• In the Beginning by Alister E. McGrath (1611)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Britain

• Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World by Randel Helms

Battle of Clontarf

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

Battle of Five Armies

• Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
• Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World by Randel Helms

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Children's Edition] by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Nomonhan

• Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1939)

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Battle of the Hornburg

• Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King v. 3 by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers v. 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle with Volturi

• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Bella's Wedding

• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The Big Bang

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (c. 14,000,000,000 BCE)

Birth of Stephen T. Colbert

• I Am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert

The Blitz

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

Bombing of Dresden

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safra Foer

the Boy realises what the Penguin needs

• Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

the Boy tries to help

• Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune. by Frank. Herbert (mentioned)

The Christian conversion of Iceland

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

Christmas

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis

Cold War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Lions) by C.S. Lewis

Creation of the One Ring

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
• Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alfred Tennyson, Lord

The Crowning of Aragorn

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

Cyclone

• The Wizard of Oz (Classics) by L. Frank Baum

the Day of Pain

• The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card

The death and resurrection of Aslan

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

Death of Morpheus

• The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

The death of the White Witch

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

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Great Flood)

Destruction of Earth

• The Call of Earth (Homecoming) by Orson Scott Card
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhikers Guide 1) by Douglas Adams (fictitious)

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhikers Guide 4) by Douglas Adams

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Easter

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

The End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhikers Guide 2) by Douglas Adams

First atomic explosion

• The End of Eternity (Panther Science Fiction) by Isaac Asimov

French Revolution

• The Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus: Four Complete Novels in One Volume - The Scarlet Pimpernel / I Will Repay / Eldorado / Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy
• The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman (1799)

Gallipoli

• A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

German occupation of Italy

• The English Patient (Bloomsbury Classic) by Michael Ondaatje (1943-1945)

Good Friday

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

Great Depression

• A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

Great Frost

• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Greek Cilvil War

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (1946 - 1949)

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (1945)

Industrial Revolution

• Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World by Randel Helms

The Inquisition

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

Interbellum

• Unnatural Death (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)

Iranian Revolution

• Persepolis I and II by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iran–Iraq War

• Persepolis I and II by Marjane Satrapi (1980 - 1988)

James VI and I ascends English throne

• In the Beginning by Alister E. McGrath (1603)

Judgement Day

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Kennel Club's Special Obedience Class

• Hairy Maclary, sit by Lynley Dodd

Kobe earthquake

• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (1995)

London Tube Attacks

• The piper's son by Melina Marchetta

Lord's Supper

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

Manifestation of the Great God Om

• Small Gods (Discworld Novel S.) by Terry Pratchett

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Meteorite

• THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (Penguin #993) by John Wyndham

Middle Ages

• Pagan's crusade by Catherine Jinks

Murder of Thomas Becket

• Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1170)

Napoleonic Wars

• Idiot (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Mansfield Park (Collector's library) by Jane Austen
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• Persuasion (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)

New Year's Day

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous

Peloponnesian War

• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (431-404 B.C)

The Penguin arrives

• Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Peninsular War

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

Pentecost

• The Book Of Acts by F F Bruce

The Pilgrim Tours

• Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

The Reappearance of Earth

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhikers Guide 4) by Douglas Adams

The return of Father Christmas

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

Road to Emmaus

• The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William Lane

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• The Fire Rose (The Elemental Masters Fairy Tales) by Mercedes Lackey (1906-04-18)

Scarlet Fever Epidemic

• The velveteen rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

The Scattering

• Heretics Of Dune by Frank Herbert

September 11 Attacks

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safra Foer

Shipwreck of Paul

• The Book Of Acts by F F Bruce

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Spanish-American War

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1898)

Stole the Book

• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

they go to the South Pole

• Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Thirty Years' War

• The Confusion (Baroque Cycle 2) by Neal Stephenson

Three Mile Island

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Tibby's parents' twentieth-anniversary party

• Forever in Blue (Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Book 4) by Ann Brashares

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Trojan War

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Victorian Era

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar WIlde

Vietnam War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

the Voodoo Wars

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley

War of the Ring

• The Lord of The Rings: Part One - The Fellowship of the Ring; Part Two - The Two Towers; Part Three - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

When Dahl finishes school

• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Whitechapel Murders

• From Hell by Alan Moore (1891)

Wiggle worm swarm

• Dragon on a Pedestal (Xanth Novels) by Piers Anthony

World Trade Center attack

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safra Foer

World War I

• Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis (1918)

World War II

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (1945)
• Brideshead Revisited. Penguin Fiction No 0821 by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Collected Letters by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• A Song For Summer by Eva Ibbotson (1945)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan (1939-1945)
• The English Patient (Bloomsbury Classic) by Michael Ondaatje ([1939] ∙ [1945])

World War III

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell

The Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga) by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)