Book Events for NickLyle
Events within the books in NickLyle's library
14th century
18th century
- The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
1940s
- Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Vladimir Nabokov
1950s
- Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Vladimir Nabokov
1971 Abolition of US Gold Standard
19th century
20th century
Adolf Hitler's rise to power
African-American Civil Rights Movement
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn
- Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor by Bertrand Russell
Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe
American Civil War
- The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics) by William Faulkner
- Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk (1865)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1865)
American Revolution
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling (1783)
Anti-Rent War
Arthurian England
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions: A Library of America Paperback Classic by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)
Assassination of the Gracchi
Atkins v. Virginia
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS: Historical and Political Essays by Noam Chomsky (1945)
- Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1945)
Attica Prison Riot
Bacon's Rebellion
Battle of Borodino
Battle of the Bulge
- Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Black Death
Bloomsday
Bolshevik Revolution
Bombing of Dresden
- Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1945-02)
Bombing of Libya
Burlington, Vermont 2009 mayoral election
Burning of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Cambridge Lectures
- Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898 (Harvard Historical Studies) by Charles Sanders Peirce
Catilina's Revolt
Chilean Coup
Christmas
- Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version by Bruce M. Metzger (Luke 2:1-21)
Cold War
- AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS: Historical and Political Essays by Noam Chomsky
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn
- Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone
Conflict of the Orders
Conquest of Latin America
Construção do Convento de Mafra
Consular election of 64 B.C.
Copernican revolution
Creation
Crimean War
The Crusades
Death of King Georg IV
Dorr Rebellion
Dreyfus Affair
Easter
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version by Bruce M. Metzger (Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-13, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-18)
El Mozote Massacre
Endurance Expedition
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing (1917)
English Civil War
Enlightenment
- Enquiries concerning human understanding and concerning the principles of morals by Hume,
- The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
- A history of western philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Existentialism
Fall of Man
Feminist Movement
Financial Crisis of 2008
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Florida 2000 presidential election
Flour Riot of 1837
French Revolution
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (1789)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hackett Classics) by Edmund Burke (1799)
Genesis creation narrative
German Idealism
- Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns (Hackett Classics) by Immanuel Kant
Great Depression
- The Great Crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn
Great Fire of London
- The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1666)
Great Plague of London
- The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1665)
Greek Civil War
Haymarket Massacre
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)
Holocaust
Hundred Years' War
Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton
Indonesian Invasion of East Timor
Industrial Revolution
Invasion of Grenada
Invention of the telescope
Iran-Contra Affair
Italian Renaissance
Jazz Age
- Complete Stories (Penguin Classics) by Dorothy Parker
- The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain
Korean War
Kurukshetra War
Lebanese Civil War
Life
Long Parliament
Mayaguez incident
Mercantilism
Mexican-American War
Middle Ages
Million Man March
Mississippi Bubble
My Lai Massacre
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)
Napoleonic Wars
- War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
- The Idiot (Everyman's Library) by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1803-1815)
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
Oklahoma City Bombing
Operation Gothic Serpent
Persian Gulf War
Philippine-American War
Pragmatism
- The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913 by Peirce Edition Project
- Philosophical Writings of Peirce by Charles S. Peirce
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition (Princeton Classics, 30) by Richard Rorty
The Punic Wars
Raid on the Medway
- The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1667)
Reconstruction
Reformation
Reign of Titus
- Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Deiss (81-09-13)
Renaissance
- Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
- Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
- The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Resignation of Richard M. Nixon
Roe v. Wade
Romantic Movement
Russian Revolution
Rwandan Genocide
Seldon Crisis
Seminole Wars
Sermon on the mount
Shays' Rebellion
The Social War
Solar eclipse
South Sea Bubble
Spanish Civil War
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1939)
Spanish-American War
Stock Market Crash
- The Great Crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1929)
Stonewall Riots
Three Mile Island Accident
Transcendentalism
Trial of Socrates
Tulip mania
United States invasion of Panama
US Civil War
- Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions: A Library of America Paperback Classic by Walt Whitman
Vietnam War
Waco Branch Davidian Siege
War in Afghanistan
War on Terrorism
Watergate Scandal
Witch trials in the early modern period
World War I
- Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1918)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1918)
- Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams (1918)
- The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- A history of western philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
- Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Vladimir Nabokov
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
- Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition by Viktor E. Frankl (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1945)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams (1945)
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1945)
- AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS: Historical and Political Essays by Noam Chomsky (1939-1945)
World War III
Wounded Knee Massacre
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn (1890-12-29)