Book Events for jjmcgaffey

12th century

• A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg (1100s)

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

13th century

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1200s)

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)

1592

• A Chorus of Innocents by P.F. Chisholm
• A Murder of Crows by P. F. Chisholm

1745

• Rebellion by Nora Roberts

1792 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1792)

1795

• Almost a Bride by Jane Feather

1799 Siege of Seringapatam

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1799)

18-yr-old Rowan traumatized by Siglen on 'lifting to Callisto Tower

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

1815

• An Unwilling Bride by Jo Beverley

1842

• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

1892

• There And Now by Linda Lael Miller

1903 Nobel Peace Prize for Physics

• Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie

1911 Nobel Peace Prize for Chemistry

• Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie

1918 influenza pandemic

• Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it by Gina Bari Kolata

1920s

• Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

1924 Kentucky Derby

• Black Gold by Marguerite Henry

1937 Recession

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

1985 Mexico City Earthquake

• Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

1986-12-28

• One Day by Gene Weingarten

19th century

• Regency Christmas Magic by Amanda McCabe
• Regency Christmas Wishes by Edith Layton

1st Beetle Attack on Deneb

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

4-yr-old Jeran Gwyn-Raven melds with in-utero Cera Gwyn-Raven to calm her after battle that she joined in

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

4-yr-old Rowan's Terror at entering spacecraft

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Abdication of Edward VIII

• Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers

Accession of Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins (1558-11-17)
• The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson (1558-11-17)
• Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney (1583)

Acquired claim to Sargol

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Adams–Onís Treaty

• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein

Adoption of Varzil the Good's Compact of Honor

• A Flame In Hali by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan War

• Crossfire by Dick Francis

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Age of Sail

• The History of American Sailing Ships by Howard Irving Chapelle
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Men-of-War by Patrick O'Brian
• A Sea of Words : a Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's seafaring tales by Dean King
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Alaska Federation of Natives convention

• Blood Will Tell by Dana Stabenow

Alien Invasion

• Armada by Ernest Cline
• Camelot 3000 by DC Comics
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Alien Landing

• The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber

Amarna Period

• Pillar of Fire by Judith Tarr

American Civil War

• Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
• The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story by John Anthony Scott
• Fables #3 - Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy by Tom Chaffin
• Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (1865)
• Clara Barton and the American Red Cross by Eve Marko (1865)
• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (1865)
• Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it by Michael J. Trinklein (1865)
• North and South by John Jakes (1865)
• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage : An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism by Stephen Crane (1865)
• Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton (1865)
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• Traveller by Richard Adams (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Indian Movement

• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it by Michael J. Trinklein
• Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
• 1776 by David McCullough (1783)
• 1781 by Robert Tonsetic (1783)
• Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert (1783)
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1783)
• The Fighting Ground by Avi (1783)
• Guardian of the Freedom by Irene Radford (1783)
• Hope's Crossing by Joan E. Goodman (1783)
• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (1783)
• In Gallant Company by Alexander Kent (1783)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1783)
• Rebels and Redcoats by George F. Scheer (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Tricentennial

• 2076 - the American Tricentennial by Edward Bryant (2076)

Amy Robsart Dudley's death

• An Air of Treason by P.F. Chisholm

Anatomy Act

• Stiff : the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Anglo-Spanish War

• The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson (1604)
• Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky (1604)

Anniversary Pancakes

• The Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Cookbook by Meg Cadoux Hirshberg

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1839)

Anzio Landing

• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle

Apollo 11

• Return To Earth by Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin (1969-07-24)

Apollo program

• Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard (1975)
• Return To Earth by Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin (1975)

Appin murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Argentine Revolution of '43

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone (1943-06-04)

Armageddon

• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Arrival at the Library

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Arrival of the Klingons in Seattle

• Ishmael by Barbara Hambly

Arrival of the Mail Order Brides in Seattle

• Ishmael by Barbara Hambly

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Ash Wednesday Storm

• Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry (March 6, 1962)

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Assassination of Francis, Duke of Guise

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1563)

Assassination of Gaspard de Coligny

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1572)

Assassination of Henry III

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1589)

Assassination of Henry, Duke of Guise

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1588)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

asteroid impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven

Astronaut Program

• Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
• Barefoot Gen : life after the bomb by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Truman by David G. McCullough (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
• Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1941-12-07)
• The Pearl Harbor Murders by Max Allan Collins (1941-12-07)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1971)

Augustine's conversion

• The Confessions Of St. Augustine by St Augustine

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

Babington Plot

• Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky
• A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Bal de l'Opera

• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Barbary Wars

• Six Frigates : the Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Actium

• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Adowa

• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Adrianople

• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Agincourt

• A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
• Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell (1415-10-25)
• Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer (1415-10-25)

Battle of Assaye

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1803-09-23)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The Last Plantagenets by Thomas Bertram Costain (1485-08-22)
• The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (1485-08-22)

Battle of Breitenfeld

• 1632 by Eric Flint

Battle of Brenn

• Shadow Magic by Patricia C. Wrede

Battle of Britain

• Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Buxar

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1764-10-22)

Battle of Caen

• Bowman of Crécy by Ronald Welch (1346)

Battle of Cannae

• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Coldwell Pass

• Shadow Magic by Patricia C. Wrede

Battle of Copenhagen

• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1801)

Battle of Crécy

• Bowman of Crécy by Ronald Welch (1346-08-26)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Delhi

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1803-09-11)

Battle of Delville Wood

• Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal

Battle of Evesham

• Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman (1265)

Battle of Fort Sumter

• North and South by John Jakes (1861-04-14)

Battle of Franklin

• Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton (1864-11-30)

Battle of Hastings

• The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer (1066)
• The Last English King by Julian Rathbone (1066)
• 1066 : the Year of the Conquest by David Armine Howarth (1066-10-14)

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Jutland

• Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie (1916-06-01)
• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1916-06-01)
• Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling (1916-06-01)

Battle of Krefeld

• Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon (23-06-1758)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Lepanto

• The First Eden : the Mediterranean World and Man by David Attenborough (1571)

Battle of Leuctra

• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle of Leyte Gulf

• The Battle for Leyte Gulf by C. Vann Woodward (1944-10-26)

Battle of Lincoln

• Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters (1141)
• When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (1141)

Battle of Long Island

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)

Battle of Maldon

• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (Battle of Maeldun)

Battle of Manticore

• At All Costs by David Weber

Battle of Marston Moor

• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson (1644-07-02)

Battle of Midway

• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1942-06-07)

Battle of Monica

• The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber

Battle of Okinawa

• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Passchendaele

• A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

Battle of Plassey

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1757-06-23)

Battle of Pollilur

• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (1780-09-10)

Battle of Roncesvalles

• The Song of Roland by Glyn S. Burgess (778)

Battle of Selma

• Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton (1865-04-02)

Battle of Stamford Bridge

• 1066 : the Year of the Conquest by David Armine Howarth (1066-09-26)

Battle of Stoney Creek

• The Rivers of War by Eric Flint

Battle of Thapsus

• Asterix Legionario by René Goscinny (46-04-06 BC)

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat (1945)
• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1945)

Battle of the Dogger Bank

• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan

Battle of the Glein

• Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Netherlands

• The Sword is Drawn by Andre Norton (1940-05-17)

Battle of the Nile

• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1798-08-03)

Battle of the Somme

• Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The First World War by John Keegan (1916-11-18)

Battle of the Virginia Capes

• In Gallant Company by Alexander Kent

Battle of Torch

• Torch of Freedom by David Weber

Battle of Trafalgar

• The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan (1805-10-21)

Battle of Trenton

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)

Battle of Waterloo

• Asterix Entre Os Belgas by Goscinny
• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
• Undeniable Rogue by Annette Blair
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)
• An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Worcester

• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (1651)

Beetles return for second attack on Altair

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

Big Bang

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Birth of twins Alastair and Conn of Hammerfell

• The Heirs of Hammerfell by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Birthdays

• The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum

Black Death

• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
• A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
• Shakespeare's Scribe by Gary L. Blackwood
• The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

Blessing of the Fleet in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Blitz

• Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
• Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
• The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood by Oliver W. Sacks
• All Clear by Connie Willis (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1941)

Bluegrass Sheep Dog Trials

• Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig

Boer War

• Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

Bombing of Coventry

• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Bombing of Dresden

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1986)

bombing of Salutation Street police station

• Dark Tide : the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo ([1916])

Bosnian War

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

Boxer Rebellion

• Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent

Braddock's Defeat

• American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax

Bread Riot

• Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce (247 H.E.)

Breaking of Purple

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone

Breaking of the Compact

• The Heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

• The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

British Raj

• Life's Handicap by Rudyard Kipling
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1947)
• Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen (1947)

Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1854)

Bronze Age

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
• Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling
• The War at Troy by Lindsay Clarke

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The Great Bridge by David G. McCullough

Building of the Panama Canal

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough

Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

• Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen E. Ambrose

Burning of the Library of Alexandria

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Cafe de Paris Bombing

• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (1941-03-08)

Calanmai

• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

California Gold Rush

• Bullwhip Griffin by Sid Fleischman (1848–1855)

Chernobyl Disaster

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Children's Crusade

• Pagan's Scribe by Catherine Jinks

Chilean Coup

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Christmas Store by Ray Sipherd
• A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Murder Goes Mumming by Charlotte MacLeod
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Princess Pirlipatine and the Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas
• The Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook by Reader's Digest
• Regency Christmas Magic by Amanda McCabe
• Regency Christmas Spirits by Nancy Butler
• Regency Christmas Wishes by Edith Layton
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire

• A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer

Cold War

• At Swords' Points by Andre Norton
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War - Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon by Neil Sheehan
• Footfall by Larry Niven
• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• Sword in Sheath by Andre Norton

Colonization of other planets

• But What of Earth? : A novel rendered into a bad example by Piers Anthony

Compromise of 1850

• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

Convention of the Estates-General of 1789

• Scaramouche: a Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

Coronation of George V

• The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

corroboree

• Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Council of Trent

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

COVID-19 pandemic

• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Creek War

• The Life of Davy Crockett by Davy Crockett (1814)

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

• The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black

Crimean War

• Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius by K.J. Anderson
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

Crusades

• Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

D-Day

• The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
• D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

D-Day, Normandy, France 1944

• Code Girls by Liza Mundy

Damia becomes Aurigae Prime

• Damia by Anne McCaffrey

Dawn of the Space Age

• Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Death of Alexander the Great

• Stealing Fire by Jo Graham (323 BCE-06-11)

Death of Amenhotep I

• The Sekhmet Bed by L. M. Ironside

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

Death of Moander

• Song of the Saurials by Kate Novak (1333 CR)

Death of St Teresa of Avila, 1582

• Ars Historica by Marie Brennan

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Declaration of Indulgence

• The Bloodless Revolution: England, 1688 by Stuart E. Prall (1687)

The Deluge

• The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars (Great Flood)

Descente de la Courtille

• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Destruction of Earth

• The Beast Master by Andre Norton

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Diamond Jubilee

• Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, 1897)

Dilbia

• Spacepaw by Gordon R. Dickson

Disaster: Blizzard

• Blizzard! : the Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy

Disaster: Dam Break

• The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough

Disaster: Flood

• The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough

Disaster: Infectious Disease

• The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

Disaster: Volcano Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

discovery of non-aggressive, pastoral hiver world

• Lyon's Pride by Anne McCaffrey

Discovery of Radium

• Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie

Discovery of the double helix

• The Double Helix by James D. Watson

Discovery of the Rimbold

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Discovery of the Zero Stones

• The Zero Stone by Andre Norton

Discovery of Uranus

• The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (1781)

Doctor's Riot, 1788

• The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore

Dorr Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1842)

Dracula Night

• A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

Dred Scott Decision

• North and South by John Jakes

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (1815-06-15)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Blackout by Connie Willis (1940-06-04)
• Dave Dawson at Dunkirk by Robert Sydney Bowen (1940-06-04)

East End Cholera Outbreak

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1866)

Easter

• The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Du Bose Heyward

Easter Rising, 1916

• Slide Rule : the autobiography of an engineer by Nevil Shute

Edict of Amboise

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1563)

Edict of Nantes

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1598)

Edict of Saint-Germain

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents by Barbara B. Diefendorf (1562)

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• Lone Wolf and Cub Vol 1 The Assassin's Road by Kazuo Koike (1603 - 1867)

The Egyptian Campaign

• The Linguist and the Emperor by Daniel Meyerson (1798)

Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

• His Majesty, Queen Hatsheput by Dorothy Sharp Carter
• Pillar of Fire by Judith Tarr
• The Sekhmet Bed by L. M. Ironside

El Mozote Massacre

• A People's History of the United States - 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1981)

Election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the USA

• North and South by John Jakes (1860)

Election of Jefferson Davis provisional president of Confederate States

• North and South by John Jakes (1861)

elections

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

Elite Conscription Act

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)

Elizabethan Era

• Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
• Big Chief Elizabeth : how England's adventurers gambled and won the New World by Giles Milton
• Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky
• Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge
• Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins (1603)

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)

End of the Library

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

English Civil War

• In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
• A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
• The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
• Lord Greville's Captive by Nicola Cornick (1641–1651)

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (79)

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Everstorm

• Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson