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Summary: 311 Events.
10th Annual Hunger Games
12th century
12th century BCE
1620s
16th century
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by François Rabelais
- The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
1770s
1776
17th century
- The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
- The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Yearling Newbery) by Elizabeth George Speare
1820s
1830
1830s
1847 North American typhus epidemic
1860s
1890s
1896
18th century
- 1776 by David McCullough
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Treasure Island (Modern Library Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
1900s
1910s
1920s
1980s
1984
19th century
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics) by Lewis Carroll
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Daniel Deronda (Barnes & Noble Classics) by George Eliot
- Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Mitchell
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
- Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot
- The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
2008 Presidential Campaign
74th Annual Hunger Games
Accession of Elizabeth I
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1558-11-17)
Afghan Civil War
- KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)
African-American Civil Rights Movement
Age of Sail
AIDS epidemic
- The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
- The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Alien Invasion
American Civil War
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
- Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (1865)
- Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1865)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
- The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (1865)
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1865)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)
American Declaration of Independence
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776)
American Revolution
- Astray by Emma Donoghue
- 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
- Blindspot: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) by Jane Kamensky (1783)
- Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
- Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (1775)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1775-1783)
Anglo Saxon period
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)
Anglo-Spanish War
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1585-1604)
Antebellum South
Apocalypse
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)
Avianca aircrash
Babington Plot
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1586)
Bangladesh War of Independence
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)
Banquet of Chestnuts
Bataan Death March
Battle of Ball's Bluff
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)
Battle of Bracciano
Battle of Britain
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of Long Island
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)
Battle of Mactan
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen (1521-4-27)
Battle of Manhattan
Battle of Shanghai
- Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of the Atlantic
- Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (1945)
Battle of the Bulge
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Hornburg
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Battle of the Labyrinth
Battle of Trenton
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)
Battle of Waterloo
- Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
Beat Generation
Black Death
Bleeding Kansas
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1859)
Blessing of the Fleet in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
The Blitz
- Coventry: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
Bolshevik Revolution
- The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall (1917)
- The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall (1917)
Bombing of Berlin
- A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1943)
Bombing of Dresden
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Bombing of Nuremberg
- A God in Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)
Bonfire of Vanities
- The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant (the original)
Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)
Bosnian War
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Tea Party
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (1773-12-16)
Boxer Rebellion
British Occupation of India
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (1765-1947)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Butlerian Jihad
- Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
Caenozoic Era
Calanmai
California Gold Rush
- Daughter of Fortune: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
- O Pioneers! (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Willa Cather (1848–1855)
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (1848–1855)
- At the Edge of the Orchard: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier (1849)
Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822
Chinese Civil War
Cholera Epidemic
Christmas
- Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" by Gregory Maguire
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Christmas Day
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Movement, USA
Classical Antiquity
climate change
Cold War
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel (P.S.) by Ann-marie Macdonald
Columbine School Shootings
corroboree
- Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)
The Council of Elrond
Council of Trent
Creation
The Crucifixion
Cultural Revolution
Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]
Death of Christopher McCandless
- Into the Wild by John Krakauer (1992)
Death of Edward VII
Death of King Georg IV
Death of Queen Victoria
Detroit Riot
Diamond Jubilee
- Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
Digging 'The Big Ditch' irrigation canal
Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
Duchess of Richmond's ball
- Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)
Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion
Easter Mutiny
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen (1520)
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
Elizabethan Era
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1558-1603)
End of the Third Age
English Reformation
Establishment of Israel
Evacuation of Boston
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)
Exposition Universelle
- The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (1900)
Expulsion of the Jews in Spain
Fall of France
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]
Fate of the Labryinth
the Fenice fire
- The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)
Financial Crisis of 2008
First cattle drive from Texas to Montana
First voyage of James Cook
The Flood
- Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle (Genesis 6-9)
- The Preservationist by David Maine (Genesis 6-9)
Fourth of July
Freedom Summer
French Revolution
- Little: A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year by Edward Carey
- Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
- Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund (1799)
- Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (1799)
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Gemini 9
Genocide in Darfur
Gilded Age
Grace Brown's Murder
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (1906)
Great Depression
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Bison Book) by Wallace Stegner
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
- The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel by Heather O'Neill
- Mary Coin: A Novel by Marisa Silver
- Shiloh Autumn by Bodie and Brock Thoene
- Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel by Jamie Ford
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)
Great Fire of Smyrna
Great Leap Forward
- Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See (1958-1961)
Great Plague of London
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Dover Thrift Editions) by Daniel Defoe (1665-1666)
The Great War
- Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries) by Jacqueline Winspear
- The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Guy Fawkes Night
Gwangju uprising
- Human Acts: A Novel by Kang Han (1980)
Halifax Explosion
- A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (1917)
Halley's Comet
- The Whistling Season by Doig% (1910)
Halloween
Harlem Renaissance
- The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes by Langston; Edited by Rampersad Hughes, Arnold
- Passing (Penguin Classics) by Nella Larsen
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Holocaust
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Great House: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
- In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
- The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
- Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) by Lois Lowry
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
- Stones from the River (Oprah's Book Club) by Ursula Hegi (1945)
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
- The Book Thief (Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature (Awards)) by Markus Zusak (1945)
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
- The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
Hurricane San Felipe Segundo
Industrial Revolution
Influenza pandemic
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Bison Book) by Wallace Stegner (1918)
- The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant (1919)
- Hattie Big Sky (Readers Circle) by Kirby Larson (1918)
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow (1918)
Inquisition
Iran-Contra Affair
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)
Iran-Iraq War
Iranian Revolution
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)
- The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel (P.S.) by Dalia Sofer (1979)
Iraq War
Irish Potato Famine
Irish Revolution
Islamic Revolution
Italian Renaissance
- The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
- Blood and Beauty: A Novel About the Borgias by Sarah Dunant
Italian War of 1494
Italian War of 1499
Jacobite Rebellion
Japanese Invasion of Malaysia, Dec. 1941
Japanese-American Internment
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow (1945)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
- Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (1945)
Jazz Age
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Killing Fields of Cambodia
the killing of Danny Hansford
Klondike Gold Rush
- Astray by Emma Donoghue (1899)
- The Call of the Wild and White Fang (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jack London (1899)
- O Pioneers! (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Willa Cather (1899)
Korean War
Lebanese Civil War
Lewis and Clark Expedition
- I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Brian Hall (1806)
liberation of Buchenwald
Magellan Expedition
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen (1522)
Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
McCarthy Era
Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother
Middle Ages
- Beowulf a New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney
- Grendel by John Gardner
- Ivanhoe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Sir Walter Scott
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Middle School Number 1 kidnapping, North Ossetia
Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Red Water: A novel by Judith Freeman (1857)
Mutiny on the Bounty
Napoleonic Wars
- Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1815)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
- The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1803-1815)
Narváez expedition
- The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (1527-1536)
Nat Turner Slave Insurrection
Nazi Germany; World War II
New Jersey plane crashes in the early 1950s
New Year
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1975)
Newark riots
Nigerian-Biafran War
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)
The Noble Experiment
Okeechobee hurricane
Olympic Games
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1936)
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (1948)
- Gold: A Novel by Chris Cleave (2004 & 2012)
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Vestal
Orphan Train
Palestine Partition 1947-1948
Papacy of Pope Alexander VI
Papal Conclave of 1492
Papal Election
Peninsular War
Persian Gulf War
Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.
plagues
- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1665-1666)
Pleistocene Epoch
Pol Pot regime
Pottawatomie Massacre
Prehistoric Age
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
- The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
- The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, Book 5) by Jean M. Auel
- The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel
Prohibition in the United States
- Babbitt (Signet Classic, 451) by Sinclair Lewis
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
Project Gemini
Pueblo Revolt
Quest of Erebor
Rebirth of Kronos
Reconstruction Era of the United States
Reign of Henry VIII
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir (1547-01-28)
Reign of Terror
Renaissance
- The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
- Blood and Beauty: A Novel About the Borgias by Sarah Dunant
Ridolfi Plot
- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (1570)
Royal Navy mutiny Spithead and the Nore
Rumble in the Jungle
Russian Civil War
- Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International) by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)
Russian Revolution
- Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International) by Boris Pasternak (1917)
- People's Act of Love by James Meek (1917)
Rwandan Genocide
Sack of Rome
Salem witch trials
- The House of the Seven Gables (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1692)
- The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel by Kathleen Kent (1692)
San Fermin & Running of the Bulls
Saur Revolution
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1978-04-28)
Scramble for Africa
Second Intifada
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Second Sino-Japanese War
Second Sudanese Civil War
Second Titan War
- The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
- The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
- The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan
- The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan
Second voyage of James Cook
September 11 Attacks
- Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
- An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
Siege of Forli
Siege of La Rochelle
Siege of Leningrad
- The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel (P.S.) by Debra Dean (1944-01-27)
Siege of Malta
Siege of Masada
Sierra Leone Civil War
Signing of the U.S. Declaration of Indepence
Sinking of the Sussex
Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
- Crabwalk by Gunter Grass (1945)