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Events within the books in Catherine494's library
14th century
16th century
1750s
1752
1770s
1776
17th century
18th century
1930s
- The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin (1931-1934)
- The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939 by Anaïs Nin (1934-1939)
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1984
19th century
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics) by Lewis Carroll
- The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics) by Alexander Pushkin
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997-05-16) by Charles Frazier
- Moby Dick: or the Whale (Modern Library) by Herman Melville
2008 Presidential Campaign
5th century BCE
74th Annual Hunger Games
9/11 Attacks
An Act to Promote Medical Science and Protect Burial Grounds
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1854)
Afghan Civil War
African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Meridian by Alice Walker
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
American Civil War
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1865)
- The Civil War: A Concise History by Louis P. Masur (1865)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1865)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997-05-16) by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)
American Declaration of Independence
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776)
American Revolution
- 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
- The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robert J. Allison (1783)
- Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government by Thomas Paine (1783)
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Anglo-Spanish War
- The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser (1604)
Anschluss
Anti-Rent War
Appin Murder
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attica Prison Riot
Bacon's Rebellion
Bangladesh War of Independence
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)
Bataan Death March
Battle of Clontarf
- The Course of Irish History by Patrick Kiely (1014-04-23)
Battle of Long Island
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)
Battle of Shanghai
- Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)
Battle of Tannenberg
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)
Battle of the Boyne
- The Course of Irish History by Patrick Kiely (1690-07-01)
Battle of the Bulge
- Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Marne
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)
Battle of Trenton
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)
Bombing of Dresden
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945-02)
Bombing of Libya
Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.
- The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)
British Occupation of India
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1765-1947)
British Raj
- An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition by M. K. Gandhi (1947)
Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1854)
Bronze Age of Comic Books
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Busing for School Integration--Boston
California Gold Rush
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1848–1855)
Chilean Coup
- A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1973)
Chinese Invasion of Tibet
Cholera Epidemic
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1832)
Christmas
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
Civil Rights Movement, USA
Classical Antiquity
COINTELPRO
Cold War
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
- Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Copper Country Strike
- The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (1913-1914)
The Crusades
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
D-Day
- Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)
Death of Socrates
Detroit Riot
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
Disaster: Volcano Eruption
Doctor's Riot
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1788)
Dorr Rebellion
Dreyfus Affair
Dust Bowl Era
- Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer (Plume) by Woody Guthrie
East End Cholera Outbreak
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1866)
El Mozote Massacre
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
End of the Universe
English Renaissance
Establishment of Israel
Evacuation of Boston
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)
evolution
Fall of Saigon
Feminist Movement
Flour Riot of 1837
French Revolution
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)
Gilded Age
Gleichschaltung
Golden Age of Comic Books
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter by Tim Hanley
Grace Marks Murder Trial
- Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1843)
Great Depression
- The Blind Assassins by Margaret Atwood
- The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1933)
Great Fire of Smyrna
Great Frost
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1709)
The Great Migration
The Great Stink
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1858)
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Greek Civil War
Guernica
Gulf War, 1990-1991
Haitian Revolution
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Halloween
Harlem Renaissance
Haymarket Massacre
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)
Holocaust
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum by Edward Linenthal
- Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel (1945)
- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1945)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
- The Book Thief by Zusak Markus (1945)
- THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION. by Michael. Chabon (1945)
Home Rule Bill
Hurricane San Felipe Segundo
Hurricane Sandy
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (2012)
Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton
Implementation of the Comics Code Authority
India-Pakistan Conflict
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indonesian Invasion of East Timor
Influenza Pandemic
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1918)
Interwar Period
Invasion of Grenada
Iran-Contra Affair
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)
Jacobite Rebellion
Japanese-American Internment
Jazz Age
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Save Me The Waltz (Handheld Classics) by Zelda Fitzgerald
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Side of Paradise (Standard Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Kefauver Senate Hearings
Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
- Just Kids by Patti Smith (1973-04-15)
Klondike Gold Rush
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1899)
Korean War
Krakatoa Eruption
Lebanese Civil War
Mayaguez incident
McCarthy Era
Metropolitan Health Act
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1866)
Mexican Revolution
- Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)
Mexican-American War
Middle Ages
Million Man March
Mint 400 Race
Mississippi Bubble
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
Murder of Theo van Gogh
Murder of Thomas Becket
- Becket by Jean Anouilh (1170)
My Lai Massacre
Napoleonic Wars
- The Idiot (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1803-1815)
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
National Conscription Act
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1863)
Nazi seizure of power
Night of the Long Knifes
Nineteen Year Winter
- The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser (1154)
Nizari Ismaili state
The Noble Experiment
Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)
Okeechobee hurricane
Oklahoma City Bombing
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Gothic Serpent
Operation Market Garden
- Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-09-25)
Operation Mincemeat
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor by Ben Macintyre
Operation Overlord
- Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-08-30)
Orange Riot
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (1871)
Partition of India
- The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
- Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Salman Rushdie
- Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari (1947)
Persian Constitutional Revolution
Persian Gulf War
Philippine-American War
plagues
- William H. McNeill: Plagues and Peoples (Paperback - Revised Ed.); 1998 Edition by William McNeill (Athens, 430-429 BC, Antonine Plague, 165-180, Roman Plague, 251-266)
- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1665-1666)
Poor Law Acts
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1834)
Prohibition in the United States
- Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sinclair Lewis
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
Public Health Act
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)
Rape of Nanking
The Reappearance of Earth
Reichstag fire
- Mephisto (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Klaus Mann (1933-02-27)
Reign of Henry II
- Becket by Jean Anouilh (1189-07-06)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard Paperbacks) by Amy Ruth Kelly (1189-07-06)
Reign of Malik Shah I
Reign of Terror
Renaissance
Resignation of Richard M. Nixon
Roe v. Wade
Romanticism
Rumble in the Jungle
Rwandan Genocide
San Fermin & Running of the Bulls
Screaming Fist
Second Sino-Japanese War
Seminole Wars
September 11 Attacks
Shays' Rebellion
Siege of Masada
Signing of the U.S. Declaration of Indepence
Silver Age of Comic Books
Sinking of the Sussex
South Sea Bubble
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
Spanish Civil War
- The Blind Assassins by Margaret Atwood
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
- Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro
Spanish-American War
Stonewall Riots
Summer
Three Mile Island Accident
Trial of Socrates
Trojan War
- The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Virgil
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Troilus and Criseyde (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Trujillo dictatorship
Tulip mania
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
United States invasion of Panama
Victorian Era
Vietnam War
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Voyage of the HMS Beagle
Waco Branch Davidian Siege
War in Afghanistan
War on Terrorism
Watergate Scandal
Witch trials in the early modern period
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged by Charles Mackay
World War I
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
- Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- Regeneration (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Pat Barker
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1918)
- Johnny Got His Gun: A Novel by Dalton Trumbo (1918)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles: The First Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie (1918)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1918)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- The Blind Assassins by Margaret Atwood
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
- Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum by Edward Linenthal
- Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See
- 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
- The Age of Reason: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
- Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel (1945)
- The Book Thief by Zusak Markus (1945)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
- Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
- Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the South Pacific by Charles Walker (1945)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor by Ben Macintyre (1945)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (1945)
- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
World War II, Eastern Front
World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands
World War II, Pacific Theater
- Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the South Pacific by Charles Walker (1945-09-02)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)
World War III
Wounded Knee Massacre
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1890-12-29)