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Summary: 98 Events.

1600, the date of Peri's Euridice, the first surviving opera

• The New Kobbe's Complete Opera Book: Edited & Revised by Earl Harewood

1983 Anti-Tamil Riots

• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

Anschluss

• The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh

Appin murder

• Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Battle of Actium

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong (Reading Guide Edition) by Sebastian Faulks
• Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (1815)

Beer Hall Putsch

• The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes (1923)

Black Death

• England in the Late Middle Ages (Penguin History of England) by A.R. Myers

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

The Blitz

• Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Persephone Classics) by Mollie Panter-Downes
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1940 ∙ 1941)

Bolshevik Revolution

• A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
• Ten Days That Shook the World (Penguin Classics) by John Reed (1917)

British Occupation of India

• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
• Up the Country; Letters From India by Emily Eden
• White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple
• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1947)
• Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India by Margaret MacMillan (1947)
• Kim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (1858-1947)

China's Cultural Revolution

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Christmas

• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Coining of the term 'Utopia'

• Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas More

Cold War

• The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

The Crusades

• Europe: A History by Norman Davies

Cuban Missil Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

the death of Beowulf

• Beowulf: A New Translation by Seamus Heaney

the death of Grendel

• Beowulf: A New Translation by Seamus Heaney

the death of Grendel's mother

• Beowulf: A New Translation by Seamus Heaney

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Domesday Book

• English Society in the Early Middle Ages (Pelican History of England) by Lady Doris Mary Stenton

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Easter Uprising, 1916

• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Fall of the Weimar Republic

• Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Ford Day

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

French invasion of Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

French Revolution

• Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss (1789)

Grace Marks murder trial

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Leap Forward

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Great War

• 1914 and Other Poems (Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions) by Rupert Brooke

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guernica

• The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre

Guy Fawkes Night

• The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy

Hiroshima

• The Heat of the Sun by David Rain (1945-08)

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• Fragments: From a Childhood, 1939-48 by Binjamin Wilkomirski

Holocaust 1933-1945

• The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi

Hundred Year's War

• Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue by George Bernard Shaw

Hundred Years' War

• England in the Late Middle Ages (Penguin History of England) by A.R. Myers

Indian independence

• A Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet) by Paul Scott
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Istanbul, Turkey

• Blaming (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor

Italian Campaign

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Magna Carta

• English Society in the Early Middle Ages (Pelican History of England) by Lady Doris Mary Stenton

Marriage of Charles and Diana

• Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1981)

Massachusetts colonial period

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1640s)

Meteorite

• The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham

Murder of Julius Caesar

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (44BCE-03-15)

Murder of Thomas Becket

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

Napoleonic Wars

• The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Passion (Classics) by Jeanette Winterson
• Shirley (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (1815)

New Year's Day

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)

Nine Years War

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Norman Conquest of England

• English Society in the Early Middle Ages (Pelican History of England) by Lady Doris Mary Stenton

Nuclear war

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Olympics 1948 [1948]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Partition of India

• Cracking India: A Novel by Bapsi Sidhwa
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

President Clinton's Impeachment

• The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Prohibition in the United States

• The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Roman Empire

• Claudius The God : by Robert Graves (1453)

Russian Civil War

• A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
• A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes (1921)

Russian Revolution

• A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes (1917)

Russian Revolution of 1917 [1917]

• Ten Days That Shook the World (Penguin Classics) by John Reed

Salem witch trials

• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Twentieth Century Classics) by Arthur Miller (1692)

Second Anglo-Sikh War

• Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-west Frontier by Charles Allen (1849)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Slow Food Movement

• In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating by Michael Pollan

Spanish Civil War

• Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) by Jessica Mitford
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1936 ∙ 1939)

Stalinism

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])

Thirty Years' War

• Mother Courage (Modern Plays) by Bertolt Brecht

Tribulation

• The Chrysalids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham

Trojan War

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

U.S. drops bomb on Nagasaki

• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (the explosion is like the creation of a new sun to Jim)

Victorian Era

• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles

Vietnam War

• The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Wall Street Crash

• The Razor's Edge (Vintage classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (1929)

Wars of the Roses

• England in the Late Middle Ages (Penguin History of England) by A.R. Myers

Women's Suffrage

• Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ford Madox Ford

World War I

• August 1914 by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
• Autobiography by Agatha Christie
• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
• Greenmantle by John Buchan
• The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
• Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
• Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics) by J. L. Carr
• Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
• The Radetzky March (Everyman's Library Classics) by Joseph Roth
• Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie (1918)
• The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet) by Paul Scott
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Persephone Classics) by Mollie Panter-Downes
• The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
• Men at Arms (Twentieth Century Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Restless by William Boyd
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
• The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" by Olivia Manning (1945)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• The Member of the Wedding (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers (1945)
• Put Out More Flags (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1945)

World War II

• The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre