Book Events for Megli
Events within the books in Megli's library
11th century
12th century
13th century
- Parzival (Penguin Classics) by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
- Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri
14th century
- The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) by Christine de Pizan
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Inferno by Dante
- King Richard II (Shakespeare, William, Works.) by William Shakespeare
- The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)
15th century
- The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) by Christine de Pizan
- King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) (Pt. 2) by William Shakespeare
- King Henry IV: Pt. 1 (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare
- The Second Part of King Henry VI (Shakespeare, William, Works.) (Pt. 2) by William Shakespeare
16th century
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais
- Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Merchant of Venice (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
- Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Second Edition by A.C. Hamilton
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
17th century
- Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Matsuo Basho
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
- Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1600s)
1820s
- Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics) by George Eliot
1830s
- Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics) by George Eliot
1860s
1980s
19th century
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Oxford World's Classics) by Lewis Carroll
- The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
- Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
- Melville's Moby Dick (typeset for the Kindle) by Herman Melville
- Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics) by George Eliot
- Poems of Christina Rosetti by Christina Rossetti
1st century
1st century BCE
2nd century
4th century
4th century BCE
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
- Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
- The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
- The symposium by Plato.
- Tao te ching (The Penguin classics) by Lao-tzu
5th century
5th century BCE
6th century BCE
Accession of Victoria
AIDS epidemic
Albigensian Crusade
- The Perfect Heresy : The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars by Stephen O'Shea (1229)
All Saints' Day
The Anarchy
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)
Anglo Saxon period
- An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair
- The Wanderer (Old English Library) by Thomas Patrick Dunning
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
Antarctic Treaty
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Babington Plot
Battle of Agincourt
- King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)
Battle of Argoed Llwyfain
Battle of Aughrim
- Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 by R.F. Foster (1691-07-22)
Battle of Badon
Battle of Camlann
- The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Alan Lupack
- Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich
Battle of Catraeth
Battle of Crayford
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Maldon
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Mons Graupius
Battle of Roncesvalles
Battle of Salamis
- The Complete Greek Tragedies: v. 1 (Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus (480 BCE-09)
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)
Battle of the Boyne
- Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 by R.F. Foster (1690-07-01)
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Thermopylae
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)
Battle of Waterloo
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
Battle of Wensleydale
Beheading game
Black Death
- The Corner That Held Them (Virago Modern Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Bloomsday
Boer War
Boxing Day
Butlerian Jihad
- GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
California Gold Rush
- O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (1848–1855)
Candlemas Eve
- Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Chretien De Troyes Romances S) by Chretien de Troyes (death of Sir Perceval)
Christmas
- Der historische Jesus. by John Dominic Crossan
- Jesus by A. N. Wilson
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
- Twelfth Night (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
- Westcott-hort Greek New Testament: with Dictionary (Greek Edition) by B. F. Westcott (Luke 2:1-21)
Classical Antiquity
Cold War
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)
Colonizing the New World
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- The Virgin In The Garden by A S Byatt (1953)
Council of Chalcedon
Council of Nicaea
Council of Trent
Creation
Creation of humankind
Creation of the universe
- The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot (Oxford World's Classics Series) by Elias Lonnrot
- The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson
Creation of the world
Crimean War
Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
The Crusades
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Long List
- Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler (Nonfiction, 2006)
Death of Agamemnon
Death of King Georg IV
Death of Morpheus
The Deluge
- The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Great Flood)
Detroit Riot
- Middlesex (1967)
Easter
- Der historische Jesus. by John Dominic Crossan
- Jesus by A. N. Wilson
- Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Chretien De Troyes Romances S) by Chretien de Troyes
- Westcott-hort Greek New Testament: with Dictionary (Greek Edition) by B. F. Westcott (Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-13, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-18)
Easter Rising
- At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)
- Inventing Ireland (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Declan Kiberd (1916)
Edo period or Tokugawa period
Edwardian Era
- Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by Collings
Elizabethan Era
- The Elizabethan World Picture by E. M. W. Tillyard
- The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) by Frances Yates
- The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Second Edition by A.C. Hamilton
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
English Civil War
- As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original) by Maria McCann
- Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
English Renaissance
- Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
- The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
Enlightenment
Existentialism
Exposition Universelle
- The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (1900)
Falklands War
Fall of Rome
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]
Fall of the Roman Republic
Fight at Finnsburg
The Flood
- Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (Genesis 6-9)
Founding of Saint Petersburg
Franco-Spanish War
French Revolution
- The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso (1789)
The Fronde
Good Friday
Great Fire of London
- City of Sin: London and Its Vices by Catharine Arnold
- Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
Great Fire of Smyrna
- Middlesex (1922)
Great Frost
The Great Revelation
- ALL TOGETHER DEAD (SOOKIE STACKHOUSE, NO 7) by CHARLAINE HARRIS
- Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris
- From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8) by Charlaine Harris
- Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (True Blood TV Tie-In Edition) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead as a Doornail: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris (fictional)
Greco-Persian Wars
- Creation: A Novel by Gore Vidal
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus ( 449 BCE)
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex (1919-1922)
Haitian Revolution
Hellenistic Period
- Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Universal History) by Peter Green ( 31 BCE)
Hermeticism
Highland Clearances
Holocaust
Holy Week
Hundred Years' War
- Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (Oxford Guides) by Steve Ellis
- King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare ( 1453)
The Hundred Years' War
Hurricane Katrina
- ALL TOGETHER DEAD (SOOKIE STACKHOUSE, NO 7) by CHARLAINE HARRIS
- From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8) by Charlaine Harris
invention of the printing press
- Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker (1440)
Islamic Golden Age
- The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid al-Din Attar
- Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks
Italian Renaissance
- Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Jacobean Era
- The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
Klondike Gold Rush
- O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (1899)
Lancaster Assizes
- The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (1612)
Louisiana Purchase
Manhattan Project
May Day
Middle Ages
- Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) by Chrétien de Troyes
- Beowulf
- The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid al-Din Attar
- The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion by Caroline Walker Bynum
- Inferno by Dante
- King Henry IV, Part 2 (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) (Pt. 2) by William Shakespeare
- King Henry IV: Pt. 1 (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare
- King Richard II (Shakespeare, William, Works.) by William Shakespeare
- Mabinogion
- Morte Darthur (York Medieval Texts) by Sir Thomas Malory
- Parzival (Penguin Classics) by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
- Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks
- The Second Part of King Henry VI (Shakespeare, William, Works.) (Pt. 2) by William Shakespeare
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri
- The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Mongol Empire
Murder of Thomas Becket
- Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1170)
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- Twelve by Jasper Kent (1812)
Napoleonic Wars
- The Passion (Winterson, Jeanette) by Jeanette Winterson
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
- The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1803-1815)
New Year
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)
Nika Riots
Nineteen Year Winter
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)
Nizari Ismaili state
Norman Conquest of England
Olympic Games
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1948)
Oxford Movement
Palm Sunday
Parliament of 1377
Peace of Westphalia
Peasants' Revolt
Peloponnesian War
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides (404 BCE)
Pendle-Craven Witch Persecution
- The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (1612)
Peninsular War
Pentecost
- Le Morte D'Arthur Volume Two (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas Malory
- Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Chretien De Troyes Romances S) by Chretien de Troyes
Persian Constitutional Revolution
Potsdam Conference
Prehistoric Age
Profumo affair
Prohibition in the United States
- Middlesex (1929)
Publication of "The Hobbit"
Publication of "The Lord of the Rings"
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Quest for Olwen
Quest for the Holy Grail
- Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions) by Sir Thomas Malory
- Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Chretien De Troyes Romances S) by Chretien de Troyes
Ragnarok
Reign of Amasis II
Reign of Cambyses II
Reign of Hadrian
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (138-07-10)
Reign of Henry II
- Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1189-07-06)
Reign of Malik Shah I
Renaissance
- The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Yates
- Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
- Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (Oxford Paperbacks) by Edgar Wind
- Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by L Barkan
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
Restoration of the Monarchy
Rise of Christianity
Roman conquest of Britain
Roman Empire
Roman occupation of Britain
Romanticism
Salem witch trials
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1906)
Scandinavian invasions of England
The Scattering
Second Persian Invasion of Greece
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus ( 479 BCE)
Spanish Golden Age
Spanish Renaissance
Thirty Years War
This book collects essays to reassess recent scholarship on Geoffrey Keating, in Irish: Seathrún Céitinn, the author of Ireland's celebrated History of Ireland
- Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa Ar Eirinn: Reassessments (Subsidiary Series) by Padraig O Riain (first published in Irish in 1634)
Tilling flood
- Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson (1930)
Torstenson War
Transcendentalism
Treaty of Compiègne
Trial of Oscar Wilde
Trojan War
- The Iliad: New Prose Translation (Classics) by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer by Homer
- The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Troilus and Cressida (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare
- Virgil's Aeneid, translation by john Dryden
Twenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Tyndale Bible
- Julian Of Norwich's A Revelation Of Love (UEP - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) by Marin Glasscoe
United States presidential election
Vatican Council II
Victorian Era
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Oxford World's Classics) by Lewis Carroll
- Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by Collings
- Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
- Poems of Christina Rosetti by Christina Rossetti
- The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns
Vietnam War
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
Viking Age
Virginia Woolf's suicide
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)
Wars of the Roses
Wat Tyler's Rebellion
Wat Tyler's Rebellion, a.k.a. the Peasants' Revolt or the Great Rising
Whitechapel Murders
Witchcraft Statute of 1604
World Trade Center attack
World War I
- The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
- In Parenthesis by David Jones
- J.R.R.Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (1918)
World War II
- Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski (1945)
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1945)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1944)
Wycliffe Bible
- Julian Of Norwich's A Revelation Of Love (UEP - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) by Marin Glasscoe
Year of Four Emperors
- The histories by Cornelius Tacitus (69)