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16th century

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1500s)

American Civil War

• Days without end by Sebastian Barry

Ashes series

• Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket by Christian Ryan

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

• HHhH by Laurent Binet

Athens Polytechnic uprising

• The Hidden by Tobias Hill

Battle of Arras

• Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis

Battle of Artemisium

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Brisbane 1943

• Amnesia by Peter Carey

Battle of Mycale

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of Plataea

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of Salamis

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE-09)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Hidden by Tobias Hill (480 BCE)
• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Waterloo

• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

Berlin Marathon

• Two Hours by Ed Caesar

Black Death

• The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Caen Bombardment

• D-Day by Anthony Beevor

California Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

Chinese Civil War

• Mao: the unknown story by Jon Halliday Jung Chang

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• Mao: the unknown story by Jon Halliday Jung Chang

Christmas

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
• A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
• Smiley's People by John le Carré (1946-1991)

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

COVID-19 pandemic

• Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Liu Cixin

D-Day

• D-Day by Anthony Beevor (1944-06-06)

Death of Catherine of Aragon

• Henry VIII by John Guy (1536-01-07)

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Discovery of Jupiter's Moons

• Galileo's dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (1610)

Discovery of Uranus

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (1781)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dreyfus Affair

• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Easter

• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

English Civil War

• Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
• God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick (1641–1651)

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1948)

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)
• Henry VIII by John Guy (1536-05-19)

Extinction of the dinosaurs

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

First Hot Air Balloon Flights

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Frankenstein - writing of

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

French Revolution of 1848

• Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Glorious Revolution

• Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd

Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (1855)

Greco-Persian Wars

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (449 BCE)

Harlem Renaissance

• Dust tracks on a road by Zora Neale Hurston

Holocaust

• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
• The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• King Henry VI Part 1 by William Shakespeare (1453)

Invention of Miner's Safety Lamp

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (1816)

Ionian Revolt

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (493 BCE)

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Jack the Ripper Murders

• From hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts by Alan Moore

Jackpot

• The Peripheral by William Gibson

James' move to England 1932

• Beyond a Boundary by Cyril Lionel Robert James

James' return to Trinidad 1958

• Beyond a Boundary by Cyril Lionel Robert James

Jazz Age

• Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
• The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Lancaster Assizes

• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (1612)

Liberation of Paris

• D-Day by Anthony Beevor (1944-08-25)

Liverpool Blitz

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (1942)

Long March

• Mao: the unknown story by Jon Halliday Jung Chang

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Miner's Strike

• Skagboys by Irvine Welsh (1984)

Napoleonic Wars

• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)

New Year's Day

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

New York City Marathon

• Two Hours by Ed Caesar

New York's Museum of Modern Art (Moma) to see Douglas Gordon's installation 24 Hour Psycho

• Point Omega by Don DeLillo

Nuclear War

• Dr Bloodmoney (Gollancz S.F.) by Philip K. Dick

Operation Barbarossa

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1941-12-05)

Operation Gladio

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

Operation Overlord

• D-Day by Anthony Beevor (1944-08-30)

Papal Election

• Conclave by Robert Harris

Peasants' Revolt

• The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1381)

Pendle-Craven Witch Persecution

• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (1612)

Pisonian conspiracy

• Seneca: a life by Emily Wilson

Post-apocalypse

• The Penultimate Truth (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Philip K. Dick

Prague Spring

• Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Prehistoric Age

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

quantum theory

• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar (20th century)

Quest for the Holy Grail

• The High Book of the Grail: A translation of the thirteenth century romance of Perlesvaus by Nigel Bryant
• Le Morte Darthur (NCE) (Norton Critical Editions) by T Malory

Ragnarok

• Ragnarok: the End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt

Regime of the Colonels

• The Hidden by Tobias Hill

Reign of Caligula

• Caligula by Suetonius (41-01-24)

Reign of Henry VIII

• Henry VIII by John Guy (1547-01-28)

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1906)

Sbarco dei Mille

• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1860)

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE)

September 11 Attacks

• Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2001-09-11)

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Spanish Civil War

• The confidential agent: an entertainment by Graham Greene (1939) (implied but not named)

Strategy of Tension

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

The Summer of Black Rivers

• City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

Tate–LaBianca murders

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (1969-08)

Today

• The "Arsonists" (Modern Plays) by Alistair Beaton

Tour de France

• The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography by Matt Rendell

Trinidad Independence Day 1962

• Beyond a Boundary by Cyril Lionel Robert James

Trojan War

• The Aeneid (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Virgil
• A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
• The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary Mason
• Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

Tudor Era

• Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (1603)
• Henry VIII by John Guy (1603)

UK general election

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (1964)

Union Carbide Bhopal massacre

• Animal's People by Indra Sinha

United States presidential election

• Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (1980)

Victorian Era

• From hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts by Alan Moore

Vietnam War

• In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

Voyage of the HMS Endeavor

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two by George R. R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five by George R. R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

War on Terrorism

• A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré (2001-)

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel by Milan Kundera (1968)

Whitlam Government Dismissal 1975

• Amnesia by Peter Carey

Witchcraft Statute of 1604

• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

World War I

• The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
• A Month in the Country by JL Carr
• Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
• Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd (1918)
• The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
• The Penultimate Truth (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Philip K. Dick
• Transcription by Kate Atkinson
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (1945)
• D-Day by Anthony Beevor (1945)
• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1945)
• The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1945)
• The Naked and the Dead (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer (1939-1945)

World War II, Batlle of Berlin

• The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper

World War II, Eastern Front

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (1945-05-05)

World War III

• The Penultimate Truth (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Philip K. Dick

World War Two

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (1945)

Yalta Conference

• The Penultimate Truth (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Philip K. Dick

Years of Lead

• Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

The Yellow March

• City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

Yule

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage