Book Events for mitznc

1896

• The Alienist: A Novel by Caleb Carr

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (September 1943)

Affair of the Poisons

• The Oracle Glass: A Novel by Judith Merkle Riley (1679)

American Civil War

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (1865)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Apartheid legislation

• A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE by MALLA NUNN

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Chilean Coup

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1973)

Cultural Revolution

• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

Discovery of the source of the Nile River

• The White Nile by Alan Moorehead

Execution of Marquise of Brinvilliers

• The Oracle Glass: A Novel by Judith Merkle Riley (1676)

Fall of Leningrad

• Bronze Horseman, The by Paullina Simons (1941)

First Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1896, 1897])

German occupation of Italy

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1943-1945)

Great Depression

• Charms for the Easy Life (P.S.) by Kaye Gibbons
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Greek Civil War

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (1946 - 1949)

Immorality Act

• A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE by MALLA NUNN (1957)

Iranian Revolution

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Jacobite Rising of 1745

• Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese-American Internment

• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)

Mahdist War

• Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters (1899)

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

Middle Ages

• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Pinochet regime

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Reign of Terror

• The Eight by Katherine Neville (1792-1793)

Rhodesian Bush War

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1964, 1979])

Second Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1966, 1980])

Seven Years' War

• Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

Siege of Leningrad

• Bronze Horseman, The by Paullina Simons (1944-01-27)

Spanish-American War

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1898)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling

Valdivia earthquake

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1960-05-22)

Victorian Era

• Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters (1901)
• The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, Book 2) by Elizabeth Peters (1901)

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War II

• Charms for the Easy Life (P.S.) by Kaye Gibbons
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Bronze Horseman, The by Paullina Simons (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1939-1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945-09-02)