Book Events for pilgrimess
Events within the books in pilgrimess's library
1810s
1953 Ionian Earthquake
1976 UK heat wave
1980s
1984
19th century
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (September 1943)
Accession of James VI, King of the Scots
AIDS epidemic
American Civil War
- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (1865)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
Anatomy Act
Anglo-Spanish War
Armageddon
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)
Autumn Feast
Avianca aircrash
Bangladesh War of Independence
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)
Bataan Death March
Battle of Ball's Bluff
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)
Battle of Brisbane 1943
Battle of Britain
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
Battle of the Somme
The Blitz
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
Bombing of Dresden
Bosnian War
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1992-1995)
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
Cape Grim massacre
- English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (1828), The Black Line (1830)
Chinese Civil War
Christmas
Clutter family murder
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)
Cold War
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Creation of Narnia
Crimean War
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of the White Witch
Detroit Riot
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
Edinburgh's Fringe Festival
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Expedition 34
Expedition 35
Expulsion of the Jews in Spain
Fall of France
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)
Franklin Dam protest
- The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy (1982)
French Resistance
Funeral Rule
Georgian Era
Gilded Age
Good Friday Agreement
Grace Marks Murder Trial
- Alias Grace by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1843)
Great Depression
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
- Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)
The Great Exhibition
Great Fire of Smyrna
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)
Great Flood of 1910
The Great Stink
The Great War
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Greek Civil War
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières (1946 - 1949)
The Highland Ball
Holocaust
- All That I Am: A Novel by Anna Funder
- City of God by E.L. Doctorow
- The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)
Industrial Revolution
Invention of chronometer
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Iran-Contra Affair
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)
Iraq War
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (2011)
Jazz Age
July 22, 2011 Utøya massacre
the killing of Danny Hansford
Kobe earthquake
- After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami (1995)
Korean War
Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland
- Burial rites by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)
liberation of Buchenwald
- Night by Elie Wiesel
masturbation
Napoleonic Wars
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen ( 1815)
Northern Ireland peace process
Operation of Point Puer Boys Prison
- A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper (1834-1849)
Operation Vestal
Paris, 1968
plagues
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1665-1666)
Prohibition in the United States
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
The Reappearance of Earth
Regency Era
Return of Father Christmas
Rumble in the Jungle
September 11 Attacks
- A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel by Ken Kalfus
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
- When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
Siege of Malta
Siege of Sarajevo
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1992)
Sinking of the Titanic
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (2003-02-03)
Spanish Civil War
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)
- Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (1939)
Spanish Inquisition
Stanford prison experiment
Stasi
STS-100
STS-74
Super Bowl
Three Mile Island
Train enroute Edinburgh to London
TransAtlantic flight of Alcock & Brown
- TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann (1919)
The Tri-Wizard Tournament
Union of the Crowns
Valentine's Day
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1900)
Victorian Era
Vietnam War
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)
Virginia Woolf's suicide
- The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)
Watergate Scandal
Whitlam Government Dismissal 1975
World Trade Center attack
World War I
- Another World by Pat Barker
- City of God by E.L. Doctorow
- The Lives of Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
- Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
- The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
- What's Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Australian History by Marilyn Lake
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- After Darkness by Christine Piper
- All That I Am: A Novel by Anna Funder
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
- City of God by E.L. Doctorow
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
- The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
- New Finnish Grammar (Dedalus Europe 2011) by Diego Marani
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
- Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (1945)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ( 1945)
- Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert (1945)
- Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1945)
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)
World War II, British Home Front
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (1944)
- Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert (1944)