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16th century

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1500s)

1792 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1792)

1799 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1799)

17th century

• Oxford School Shakespeare : Hamlet by Gill Roma (1600s)

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire : The Hunger Games (Second Book) by Suzanne Collins

Abraham justified by faith

• Brick Lane by Ali Monica (Romans 4:1-5)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords by Ahmed Rashid

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

American Civil War

• Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Popular Classics) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Atkins v. Virginia

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg (2002)

Battle of Assaye

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1803-09-23)

Battle of Blood River

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1838-12-16)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Terrible Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary

Battle of Buxar

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1764-10-22)

Battle of Delhi

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1803-09-11)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Maiwand

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1880-07-22)

Battle of Manhattan

• Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Book 5): Rick Riordan by Rick Riordan

Battle of Ningpo

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1842-03-10)

Battle of Plassey

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1757-06-23)

Battle of Pollilur

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1780-09-10)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5 by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Labyrinth

• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4): Half Boy. Half God. All Hero by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Solent

• Heartstone (The Fifth in the Shardlake Series) by C. J. Sansom (1545)

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Bengal Famine of 1770

• Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Benin Expedition of 1897

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1897-02)

British Occupation of India

• A Passage to India by E M Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• The Last Mughal by Dalrymple (1947)
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi (1947)

Burlington, Vermont 2009 mayoral election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg

Chinese Civil War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll

Cold War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson

Cold War Espionage

• Exposure Indie Special by Helen Dunmore

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Coronation of Jahangir

• The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan (24 November 1605)

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Creation of Turkey

• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières

Crusades

• The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History in Two Volumes. by C. W. Previté-Orton (1st-3rd)

Cultural Revolution

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Dark Ages

• The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History in Two Volumes. by C. W. Previté-Orton

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb

• Awesome Egyptians (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary (1922)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Egyptian Revolution of 1919, King Farouk I overthrown 1952

• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Fate of the Labryinth

• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4): Half Boy. Half God. All Hero by Rick Riordan

Field of the Cloth of Gold

• Terrible Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary

First Opium War

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1842)

Flagstaff War

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1845-46)

Florida 2000 presidential election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1799)

Fourth Lateran Council

• The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK

French Resistance

• The Nightingale by Hannah

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor] by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gallipoli Campaign

• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières (1916-01-09)

The Great Exhibition

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson Book 3) (English Edition) by Bill Bryson (1851)

Great Leap Forward

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

The Great Stink

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson Book 3) (English Edition) by Bill Bryson

Haitian Revolution

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (1804)

Holocaust

• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
• The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank [Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler] (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• Saint Joan (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw

Indian independence

• Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Chaudhuri Nirad C.
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre

Indian Mutiny

• The Last Mughal by Dalrymple (1858-06)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary
• The Last Mughal by Dalrymple

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram (Inglese): Gregory David Roberts by Gregory David Roberts

Industrial Revolution

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson Book 3) (English Edition) by Bill Bryson

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

Islamic expansion

• The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History in Two Volumes. by C. W. Previté-Orton

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kandyan Wars

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1818)

Khmer Rouge rule of 1975–1979

• In The Shadow Of The Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

Louisiana Purchase

• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Marichjhapi Massacre 1978-1979

• The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Napoleonic Wars

• Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)
• The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1803-1815)

Naxalite rebellion

• The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (1967)

New Year's Day

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1975)

Olympic Games

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1948)

Opium Wars

• Sea of Poppies: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy) by Amitav Ghosh (1860)

Pack Horse Library Project

• The Giver of Stars: The spellbinding love story from the author of the global phenomenon Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Partition of India

• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre
• India Wins Freedom by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Qing Dynasty

• Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire : The Hunger Games (Second Book) by Suzanne Collins

Ragnarok

• Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green

Rebirth of Kronos

• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4): Half Boy. Half God. All Hero by Rick Riordan

Reformation

• The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK

Reign of Edward II, King of England

• Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe (1327-01-25)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor] by Charles Dickens

Russia Invasion of Afghanistan

• Shantaram (Inglese): Gregory David Roberts by Gregory David Roberts

Sannyasi Rebellion, Bengal, India

• Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Second Anglo-Maratha War

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1805)

Second Anglo-Mysore War

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1784)

Second Sino-Japanese War

• Red Sorghum by Yan Mo

Second Titan War

• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4): Half Boy. Half God. All Hero by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Book 5): Rick Riordan by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1): Rick Riordan by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

September 11 Attacks

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll (2001-9-11)

Seven Years' War

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1763)

Siege at Ruby Ridge

• Educated: The international bestselling memoir by Tara Westover

Siege of Cawnpore

• Horrible Histories Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary (1857-06)

The sinking of the Mary Rose

• Heartstone (The Fifth in the Shardlake Series) by C. J. Sansom (1545)

Slavery Abolition Act

• Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Jean Rhys (1833)

Soviet-Afghan War

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll (1989)
• Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords by Ahmed Rashid (1979 ∙ 1989)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Armada

• Terrible Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary

Spanish Civil War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Sri Lankan civil war

• A Passage North: A Novel by Anuk Arudpragasam

Summer Solstice

• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1): Rick Riordan by Rick Riordan

Syrian Revolution

• Sea Prayer [Hardcover] Khaled Hosseini by Khaled Hosseini

Taiping Rebellion

• Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Third Anglo-Mysore War

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1792)

Third Battle of Panipat

• The Anarchy : The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (1761-01-14)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 4) (Illustrated edition) (4) by J. K. Rowling

Trojan War

• The Aeneid by Virgil
• The Iliad of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
• The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics) by Homer
• The Women of Troy: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller by Pat Barker

Victorian Era

• The Last Mughal by Dalrymple (1901)

Vietnam War

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1975)

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien

War on Terrorism

• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll

Wars of the Roses

• Terrible Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

Winter Solstice

• Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

World War I

• Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
• Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières (1918)
• Frightful First World War (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary (1918)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg
• The Nightingale by Hannah
• Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
• The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank [Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler] (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows (1945)
• Hornet Flight: 2 by Ken Follett (1945)
• Horrible Histories Blitzed Brits Classic by Terry Deary (1945)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (1945)
• Woeful Second World War (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of Denmark

• Hornet Flight: 2 by Ken Follett (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank [Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler]

World's Columbian Exposition

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson Book 3) (English Edition) by Bill Bryson (1893)

Y2K

• Educated: The international bestselling memoir by Tara Westover

Zenith Radio Corporation telepath broadcasts

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg (1937)