Book Events for earthsinger
Events within the books in earthsinger's library
Summary: 378 Events.
12th century BCE
1689
16th century
1788-89 US presidential election
1792 US presidential election
1796 presidential election
17th century
1800 US presidential election
1820s
1830s
1898
18th century
1925 Tri-State Tornado
1930s
1946
1949
1953 Ionian Earthquake
1960s
1961
1970s
1976 UK heat wave
1980s
1984
19th century
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Middlemarch: A George Eliot Trilogy by George Eliot
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
2008 Presidential Campaign
2010 Canterbury earthquake
2011 Christchurch earthquake
33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres (September 1943)
7 July 2005 London bombings
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (2005-07-07)
74th Annual Hunger Games
75th Annual Hunger Games
9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon
Accession of Elizabeth I
Afghan Civil War
African-American Civil Rights Movement
Age of Sail
AIDS epidemic
Amarna Period
American Civil War
- The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty by Taylor Caldwell (1865)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
American Revolution
- Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander Book 9) by Diana Gabaldon
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
- A Breath Of Snow And Ashes: (Outlander 6) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
- An Echo in the Bone (Outlander 7) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
- Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (1775)
The Anarchy
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)
Anglo Saxon period
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)
Antebellum South
Armageddon
Armenian Genocide
Arrival at the Library
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- 11.22.63 by Stephen King
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Away: A Novel by Jane Urquhart (1868)
Assassination of William McKinley
Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1941-12-07)
Bangladesh War of Independence
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)
Bar Kokba revolt
Bataan Death March
Battle at Burning plains
Battle of Actium
- Antony and Cleopatra: A Novel (Masters of Rome) by Colleen McCullough (31 BCE-09-02)
Battle of Ball's Bluff
- March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)
Battle of Bannockburn
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Bosworth Field
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (1485-08-22)
Battle of Britain
- A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
- Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)
Battle of Culloden
Battle of King's Mountain
Battle of Kulikovo, 1380
Battle of Laverstoke
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of the Bulge
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Hornburg
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Waterloo
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1815)
Birth of Margaret Norman
Black Death
Black Lives Matter
The Blitz
- Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
- Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)
Bloody Sunday
Bombing of Berlin
Bombing of Dresden
Bombing of Nuremberg
- A God in Ruins: A Novel (Todd Family Book 2) by Kate Atkinson (1944-03-31)
Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.
- The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)
Boudicca's Revolt
British Raj
Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1854)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Burr-Hamilton Duel
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)
Caenozoic Era
Calanmai
California Gold Rush
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse (1848–1855)
- Redeeming Love: A Novel by Francine Rivers (1848–1855)
Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822
Chechen conflict
Chernobyl Disaster, Ukraine, USSR
Chilean Coup
Chinese Civil War
Cholera Epidemic
Christmas
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Book 2) by C. S. Lewis
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Movement, USA
Classical Antiquity
- Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
- Mythos: (Ancient Greek Mythology Book for Adults, Modern Telling of Classical Greek Myths Book) by Stephen Fry
Codrington Divorce Trial
- The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (1864)
Cold War
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, Book 3) by Ken Follett
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John LeCarre
Columbine School Shootings
Constitutional Convention
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)
Coronation of Aragorn
The Council of Elrond
Credit crunch
Cremona Triennale
Crimean War
Crusades
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Revolution
Cultural Revolution
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
D-Day
- Jackdaws by Ken Follett (1944-06-06)
Damia becomes Aurigae Prime
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of Cleopatra
Death of Edward VII
Death of Katherine of Aragon
- Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)
Death of King Georg IV
Death of King George III
Death of Pope John Paul I
Death of Queen Victoria
Death of the White Witch
Destruction of Isengard
Destruction of Sandleford Warren
Destruction of the One Ring
Detroit Riot
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
Disaster: Storm at Sea
Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
Donora Smog
Dreyfus Affair
Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion
Dust Bowl Era
East End Cholera Outbreak
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1866)
Easter
Edinburgh's Fringe Festival
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
- Child of the Morning: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics) by Pauline Gedge
- Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
elections
- Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)
End of the Library
End of the World
English Civil War
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- Traitor's Knot (Quest for the Three Kingdoms) by Cryssa Bazos
- Act of Oblivion: A Novel by Robert Harris (1641-1651)
English Reformation
English Renaissance
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Before Ever After: A Novel by Samantha Sotto
- A Day of Fire: a novel of Pompeii by Kate (Dray Quinn, Stephanie et al)
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Everstorm
Excavation of Masada by Yigael Yadin
- Cross Bones (#8) by Kathy Reichs (1965)
Execution of Anne Boleyn
- Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)
Execution of Charles I
- Act of Oblivion: A Novel by Robert Harris (1649)
Execution of King Louis XVI of France
Execution of Marie Antoinette
Fall of Communism
Fall of Constantinople
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (1453-05)
Fall of France
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)
Fall of Leningrad
- The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (1941)
Fall of Singapore
- Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (1942)
Fall of the Berlin Wall
- A Ladder to the Sky: A Novel by John Boyne
- Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1989)
February Revolution
the Fenice fire
- The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (1996)
First cattle drive from Texas to Montana
First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms
First Contact with Mridani
First Contact with Sodan
Florence flood in 1966
football
Freedom Ride
French Resistance
French Revolution
- Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
- Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
- Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women by Kate Quinn
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
- A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (1789)
- Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1789-1799)
Gap Year
Gemini 9
Gilded Age
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster)) by Edith Wharton
- Remembering the Titanic by Diane Hoh
Glasgow International Exhibition
- Gillespie and I: A Novel by Jane Harris (1888)
Gold Rush
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (1855)
Good Friday Agreement
Grace Brown's Murder
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (1906)
Grace Marks Murder Trial
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1843)
Great Depression
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Marrying Kind by Jessica Stirling
- Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel by Jamie Ford
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Unplowed Sky by Jeanne Williams
The Great Exhibition
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Random House audiobooks) (CD-Audio) - Common by By (author) Bill Bryson Read by Bill Bryson (1851)
Great Fire of London
- Act of Oblivion: A Novel by Robert Harris (1666)
- London: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1666)
Great Fire of Smyrna
Great Frost
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1709)
Great Leap Forward
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
- Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See (1958-1961)
The Great Migration
The Great Stink
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Random House audiobooks) (CD-Audio) - Common by By (author) Bill Bryson Read by Bill Bryson
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1858)
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Greek Civil War
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres (1946 - 1949)
Green Mountain Train Wreck
Gulf War II
Guy Fawkes Night
Gwyn-Raven children fostered on Deneb, allowing them to train their talented children
Halloween
- 11.22.63 by Stephen King (1958)
Hamilton–Reynolds affair
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)
Heysel Stadium disaster
The Highland Ball
Hillsborough disaster
Holocaust
- 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
- Great House by Nicole Krauss
- The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
- The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
- Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir by Aron Goldfarb
- Pastel Orphans by Gemma Liviero
- The Silver Music Box by Mina Baites
- Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
- Sophie's Choice: A Novel by William Styron
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
- When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: A Memoir by Hendrika de Vries
- The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
Holodomor
- Sliding On The Snow Stone by Andy Szpuk (1933)
Home Children Immigration to Australia
Hurricane Donna
Hurricane Katrina
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2005)
Indira Ghandi's assassination
Industrial Revolution
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Random House audiobooks) (CD-Audio) - Common by By (author) Bill Bryson Read by Bill Bryson
Influenza pandemic
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
Interbellum
Interwar Period
Iran-Contra Affair
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)
Iraq War
Irish Potato Famine
- Away: A Novel by Jane Urquhart
- Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty by Taylor Caldwell (1852)
Irish Revolution
Jack the Ripper Murders
Jacobite Rebellion
Jacobite Rising of 1745
Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Japanese Occupation
Japanese-American Internment
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (1945)
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)
Jazz Age
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mapp and Lucia: Complete Series (All 8 Titles in One Edition) by E. F. Benson
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Jewish Holocaust
July Revolution
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1830)
June Rebellion
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1832)
Kindertransport
King Philip's War
- Act of Oblivion: A Novel by Robert Harris (1675-1678)
The King's Champion Contest
Klondike Gold Rush
- White Fang by Jack London (1899)
Korean War
Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)
London Blitz
- Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (1941)
London Evacuation
Magna Carta
The making of Some Like it Hot
Marichjhapi Massacre 1978-1979
Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
May 13 Incident
- Evening is the whole day by Preeta Samarasan (May 13, 1969 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
May Day
McCarthy Era
Mexican Land Reforms
Mexican Revolution
- The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia ( [1920])
Middle Ages
Monterrey Pop Festival
Mount Vesuvius, Italy 1906 eruption
- The Trembling Hills by Phyllis A. Whitney (news of only)
Mrdini exchange program
- Damia's Children (Rowan) by Anne McCaffrey (Laria Lyon goes to Clarf Tower)
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court by Michelle Moran (1812)
- War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1812)
Napoleonic Wars
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- The Mathematics Of Love by Emma Darwin
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Passion (Vintage Blue Book 10) by Jeanette Winterson
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
- The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
- War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court by Michelle Moran ( 1815)
New Kingdom of Egypt
- Child of the Morning: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics) by Pauline Gedge
- The Heretic Queen: Heiress of Misfortune, Pharaoh's Beloved by Michelle Moran
- Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
Nigerian-Biafran War
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)
Nineteen Year Winter
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)