Book Events for PaulNew
Events within the books in PaulNew's library
1600s
16th century
17th century
1953 Ionian Earthquake
1980s
1984
33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (September 1943)
Age of Sail
- The Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- Treason's Harbour (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
Alien Invasion
American Civil War
Armageddon
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attack on Pearl Harbor
baseball
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Hornburg
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Vol 3 (Lord of the Rings) by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Vol 2 (The Lord of the Rings) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Battle of Vienna
Bloody Assizes
Bombing of Dresden
Butlerian Jihad
- Dune (S.F. Masterworks) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
Cleansing of Saidin
Cold War
- The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
- Missile Gap by Charles Stross
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
- Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
- Smiley's People by John Le Carre (1946-1991)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)
The Council of Elrond
Crimean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1962)
Death of Morpheus
Destruction of Earth
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Easter Rising
- Preacher Vol. 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis (1916)
Edict of Fontainebleau
Elite Conscription Act
- The Forever War (Millennium SF Masterworks S) by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)
End of the Third Age
End of the Universe
- Time by Stephen Baxter
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
End of the World
French Revolution
Georgian Era
- The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1837)
Gilded Age
Glorious Revolution
Great Fire of London
Greek Civil War
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (1946 - 1949)
Guadalcanal Campaign
Gulf War
- The Crow Road by Iain Banks (1990-1991)
Halley's Comet
Halloween
Hartford circus fire
- Passage by Connie Willis (1944-07-06)
Hindenburg disaster
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Passage by Connie Willis (1937-05-06)
Iraq War
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)
Jacobean Era
Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Japanese Occupation
Manhattan Project
May Day
Melding Plague
Mint 400 Race
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Monmouth Rebellion
Napoleonic Wars
- The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1815)
Nazi Germany; World War II
Palm Sunday
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1942)
Peace of Amiens
- Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian (1802-1803)
plagues
- Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)
Potsdam Conference
Prehistoric Age
Quest of Erebor
The Reappearance of Earth
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Renaissance
Revolt of Spartacus
Roanoke Colony
Screaming Fist
September 11 Attacks
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
Sinking of the Titanic
- Passage by Connie Willis (1912)
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Golden Age
Spanish Renaissance
Spartacist Uprising
Thirty Years' War
- The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
- The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) by Neal Stephenson
Tokyo gas attack
Toulon Blockade
The Tri-Wizard Tournament
Trojan War
- Ilium by Dan Simmons
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two
United States presidential election
Vietnam War
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
War of the Five Kings
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice & Fire) by George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice & Fire) by George R.R. Martin
War of the Usurper
World Trade Center attack
World War I
World War II
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ( 1945)
- The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Philip K. Dick (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- The Naked and the Dead (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer (1939-1945)
World War II, Pacific Theater
World War III
World War Terminus
Xenocide of the Formics
- Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)