Book Events for KristinSusanne
Events within the books in KristinSusanne's library
11th century
16th century
17th century
- Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
- Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
- Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
Abolition of polygamy in the United States
Aborted Wedding at Toad Hall
AIDS epidemic
American Civil War
- Little Women (Puffin in Bloom) by Louisa May Alcott
- Little Women: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin (Marjolein Bastin Classics Series) by Louisa May Alcott
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
American Revolution
Anglo-Spanish War
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1604)
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of Julius Caesar
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (44 BCE-03-15)
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1941-12-07)
Autumn Feast
Babington Plot
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)
Banquet of Chestnuts
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1501)
Battle at the High Judge's House
Battle of Actium
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (31 BCE-09-02)
Battle of Agincourt
- Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)
Battle of Bosworth Field
- Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)
Battle of Bracciano
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1496)
Battle of Britain
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Nile
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (47 BCE)
Battle w/ the Lathbury Pike
Birth of Margaret Norman
Black Death
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (1350)
The Blitz
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
- Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1940)
Bloody Sunday
Bombing of Berlin
- God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (1943)
Bombing of Dresden
Bombing of Nuremberg
- God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)
Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.
Burr-Hamilton Duel
Buzzards Bay Bouchard oil spill
Chilean Coup
Cholera Epidemic
Christmas
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- Little Women (Puffin in Bloom) by Louisa May Alcott
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cold War
Columbine School Shootings
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt (1953)
COVID-19 pandemic
Creation
Creation of man
Creation of Narnia
Creation of the world
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cádiz Raid
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)
D-Day
- The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley (1944-06-06)
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of Edward VII
Death of Katherine of Aragon
- Bring up the Bodies (1536-01-07)
Death of La Mennulara
- The Almond Picker: A Novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby (1963-09-23)
Death of Queen Victoria
Death of the White Witch
Dedication of Washington Monument
Destruction of Earth
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
Elizabethan Era
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1603)
Elopement of Prendergast and Madame d'Albert
End of the Hellenistic Age
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (33 BCE)
End of the Universe
English Reformation
Essex Rebellion
- Elizabeth I: The Novel by Margaret George (1601)
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Execution of Anne Boleyn
- Bring up the Bodies (1536-05-19)
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1587)
Exposition Universelle
- The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt (1900)
Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (476)
February Revolution
Freedom Ride
Glasgow International Exhibition
- Gillespie and I: A Novel by Jane Harris (1888)
Great Depression
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
- Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
Great Fire of London
- London: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1666)
Gunpowder Plot
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1605)
Halloween 1958
Holocaust
- The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
- Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hundred Days
- The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (1815-07-08)
Hundred Years' War
Influenza pandemic
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
Interbellum
- Lord Peter Views the Body: A Collection of Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 4) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)
Iraqi war
Irish Civil War
Italian Renaissance
Italian War of 1494
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1498)
Italian War of 1499
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1504)
Japanese-American Internment
Jazz Age
the killing of Danny Hansford
Kindertransport
Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Megatherium Trust crash
Meiji Restoration
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories by Karen Russell (early, Japan, 1868-1870?, in Reeling for the Empire)
Mexican War of Independence
Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother
Murder of George Floyd
Napoleonic Wars
Norman Conquest of England
October Revolution
Opium Wars
Pack Horse Library Project
Papacy of Pope Alexander VI
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1503)
Papal Conclave of 1492
Peekskill riots of 1949
Phoney War
Pinochet regime
Polio epidemic
Quest of Erebor
Ragnarok
The Reappearance of Earth
Reconstruction Era of the United States
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1877)
Reign of Cleopatra VII
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (30 BCE)
Reign of Henry VIII
Return of Father Christmas
Return of The Trickster
Rose's escape
Salem witch trials
- The Last Witchfinder: A Novel by James Morrow
- The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel by Kathleen Kent (1692)
Salem Witch Trials
San Miguel Valley Bank Robbery
- Something Wilder by Christina Lauren (1889)
Second Boer War, 1899-1902
September 11 Attacks
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
- Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2001-09-11)
Siege of Alexandria
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (47 BCE)
Siege of Forli
- Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (1499)
Sinking of the Britannic
- A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries, 1) by Charles Todd (1916-11-21)
Sinking of the Lusitania
Sinking of the Spanish Armada
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1588)
Sinking of the Titanic
- The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe (1912-04-15)
Spanish Armada
- Elizabeth I: The Novel by Margaret George (1588)
Spanish Civil War
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
- The Time in Between by María Dueñas
- The Pursuit of Love (Television Tie-in) (Radlett and Montdore) by Nancy Mitford (1939)
- Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1939)
Spanish-American War
- The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1898)
Spring Offensive
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett (1572)
Suffragette Movement
Superflu epidemic
Taliesin Murders
- The Women by T. C. Boyle (1914-08-14)
- Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan (1914-08-15)
The Tri-Wizard Tournament
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (1911-03-25)
Trojan War
Tsunami
Tudor Era
United States occupation of Veracruz
Up Helly Aa
- Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries (Shetland Island Mysteries, 1) by Ann Cleeves
Valdivia earthquake
- The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1960-05-22)
Vel' d' Hiv'
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)
Victorian Era
Vietnam War
- Beach Music by Pat Conroy
- The End of the Point: A Novel by Elizabeth Graver
- Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
War of 1812
Wars of the Roses
- Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1485)
- The Daughter of Time, Book Cover May Vary by Josephine Tey (1455-1485)
World War I
- The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
- No Angel: A Novel by Penny Vincenzi
- Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables) by L. M. Montgomery
- The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani
- A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries, 1) by Charles Todd (1918)
- The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe (1918)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
- Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel by William Boyd (1918)
- Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary by Margaret Atwood
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer
- God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II by Rhys Bowen
- The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
- The Last Summer of the Camperdowns: A Novel by Elizabeth Kelly
- The Last Train to London: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton
- The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley
- Lilac Girls: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday) by Martha Hall Kelly
- The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel by Pam Jenoff
- Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Eco Umberto
- Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- A Tale for the Time Being (ALA Notable Books for Adults) by Ruth Ozeki
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
- The Time in Between by María Dueñas
- Transcription: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
- Death and the Dancing Footman: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #11 by Ngaio Marsh (1945)
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (1945)
- The End of the Point: A Novel by Elizabeth Graver (1945)
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (1945)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)
- House of Leaves: Danielewski Mark Z. by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by George Orwell (1945)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
- Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1945)
World War II, British Home Front
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II by Rhys Bowen
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
World War II, German Occupation of France
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II by Rhys Bowen
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (1944)
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (1944)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)
World War II, Italian Campaign
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan (1943-1945)
World War II, Pacific Theater
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)
- Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1945-09-02)
World War III
Yugoslav Wars
- The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Téa Obreht (1991-1995)