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1035 Bjarne Sigvatson's expedition lands at what is now New York, USA.

• Valhalla rising by Clive Cussler

11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The 144,000 with the Lamb

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 14:1-5)

14th century

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1300s)

16th century

• The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1500s)
• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (1500s)

1745

• Rebellion by Nora Roberts

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

17th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• The tragical history of Hamlet prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare (1600s)

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1830

• The pale blue eye a novel by Louis Bayard

1889

• Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city by Erik Larson

1896

• The alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• Les liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (1782)
• The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1794)
• The monk by M. G. Lewis (1796)

1928

• East of the sun by Julia Gregson

1936 Olympics

• Devil at my heels by Louis Zamperini

1938 New England hurricane

• Sudden sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938 by R. A. Scotti

1948 Arab-Israel War

• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis De Bernies

1960s

• Just kids by Patti Smith

1969 Ayn Rand gives a lecture to her Objectivist Friends

• The art of nonfiction : a guide for writers and readers by Ayn Rand

1970s

• Carrie; [a novel of a girl with a frightening power by Stephen King
• Just kids by Patti Smith

1980s

• Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer

1998 Assassination of PLO commando leader Abu Jihad

• The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva

1st century BCE

• The Cleopatra crisis by Nicholas Yermakov

2003 Emerald Dolphin is on fire in the South Pacific Ocean.

• Valhalla rising by Clive Cussler

2003 Mongol Invader and Coral Wanderer meet off New York City, USA.

• Valhalla rising by Clive Cussler

2008 global recession

• Sunset Park by Paul Auster

2012-09-11 Benghazi attack

• 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff

2058

• Holiday in death by J. D. Robb

2059

• Big Jack by J. D. Robb
• Imitation in death by J. D. Robb
• J.D. Robb - Eve Dallas 14 by Interlude in Death
• Origin in death by J. D. Robb
• Survivor in death by J. D. Robb
• Visions in death by J. D. Robb

2060

• J.D. Robb - Eve Dallas 26 by Haunted in Death
• Promises in death by J. D. Robb
• Salvation in death by J. D. Robb
• Strangers in death by J. D. Robb

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis De Bernies (September 1943)

4th of July

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

79 AD Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• Resurrecting Pompeii by Estelle Lazer

9-11 Memorial Service

• The Camel Club by David Baldacci

9/11 Attacks

• SEAL Team Six : memoirs of an elite Navy seal sniper by Howard E. Wasdin

9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon

• Doctor Sleep : a novel by Stephen King

Abraham justified by faith

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Romans 4:1-5)

Acquired claim to Sargol

• Sargasso of space by Andre Norton

Afghan Civil War

• The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

Afghan Wars

• Burnt shadows by Kamila Shamsie
• King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
• The great war for civilisation : the conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2001-)

Afghanistan War

• Crossfire by Dick Francis
• Known and unknown : a memoir by Donald Rumsfeld

Afghanistan War, 2001-

• The forever war by Dexter Filkins

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Blackwell companion to American Foreign Relations by Robert D. Schulzinger
• Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy by Bruce Watson
• The help by Kathryn Stockett
• Notes of a native son by James Baldwin
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn

Age of Sail

• Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the oulaws' bloody reign by Stephan Talty
• The fortune of war by Patrick O'Brian
• H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
• The hundred days by Patrick O'Brian
• John Barry : an American hero in the age of sail by Tim McGrath
• The Mauritius command by Patrick O'Brian
• The nutmeg of consolation by Patrick O'Brian
• Perilous fight : America's intrepid war with Britain on the high seas, 1812-1815 by Stephen Budiansky
• Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
• Treason's harbour by Patrick O'Brian
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Two years before the mast by Richard Henry Dana
• The yellow admiral by Patrick O'Brian

Agua Prieta Fire

• Dark water by Laura McNeal

AIDS epidemic

• The hours by Michael Cunningham
• Keith Haring journals by Keith Haring

Aiel War

• New spring by Robert Jordan

Alabama claims

• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams, 1838-1918

Alaska Federation of Natives convention

• Blood will tell by Dana Stabenow

Alien Landing

• The apocalypse troll by David Weber

Allied Invasion of Sicily

• A bell for Adano by John Hersey

Allied occupation of Japan

• An artist of the floating world by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945-1952)

Amarna Period

• The life and times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt by Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 1880-1934
• The murder of King Tut the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller by James Patterson
• Nefertiti : a novel by Michelle Moran
• Tutankhamen, Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian monotheism, with hieroglyphic texts of hymns to Amen and Aten by E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge, Sir, 1857-1934
• Tutankhamun : the book of shadows by Nick Drake

Amboina Massacre

• Batavia's graveyard by Mike Dash (1623)

American Civil War

• The Civil War, a narrative by Shelby Foote
• The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• How few remain by Harry Turtledove
• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• Lincoln's dreams by Connie Willis
• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• 1861 the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart (1865)
• A. Lincoln a biography by Ronald C. White (1865)
• Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (1865)
• The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution by Brian Holden Reid (1865)
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (1865)
• The Civil War, a narrative by Shelby Foote (1865)
• Confederates in the attic : dispatches from the unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Devil's dream by Madison Smartt Bell (1865)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Edison & the electric chair : a story of light and death by Mark Essig (1865)
• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams, 1838-1918 (1865)
• The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles (1865)
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
• A history of the English-speaking peoples by Winston Churchill (1865)
• The Killer Angels (1975) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Michael Shaara (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• New York : the novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1865)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1865)
• Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1865)
• Strange and obscure stories of the Civil War by Tim Rowland (1865)
• The surgeon of Crowthorne : a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• This republic of suffering death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1865)
• Candle in the darkness by Lynn N. Austin (1861 ∙ 1865)
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy (1861-1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• Cheap : the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
• Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• New York : the novel by Edward Rutherfurd
• The power of myth by Joseph Campbell
• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1783)
• The American Revolution : a history by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• The first salute by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1783)
• Woods runner by Gary Paulsen (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

Ananias and Sapphira

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Acts 5:1-11)

The Anarchy

• The pillars of the earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)

The angels with the seven last plagues

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 15:1-8)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
• The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1066)

Anglo-Dutch War

• The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America by Russell Shorto

Anglo-French War

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1629)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the oulaws' bloody reign by Stephan Talty (1604)

Anschluss

• The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance by Edmund De Waal

The Anschluss

• The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer

The anti-Christ revealed

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)

Anti-Rent War

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1839)

Apartheid legislation

• A beautiful place to die : a novel by Malla Nunn

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• Moonshot : the inside story of mankind's greatest adventure by Dan Parry (1969-07-20)

Appin murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Arab Revolt

• Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell (1918)
• Hero : the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda (1918)

Ark of the Covenant

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Exodus 25:10-22)

Armageddon

• Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch : a novel by Neil Gaiman
• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 16:12-16)

Armenian Genocide

• The gendarme by Mark Mustian

The army from the Euphrates

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 9:12-19)

Arno River flood

• Dark water : flood and redemption in the city of masterpieces by Robert Clark

Arrest of Portland Spy Ring

• The spy game by Georgina Harding (1961-01-07)

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court by Mark Twain

Articles of Capitulation

• The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America by Russell Shorto

Ascension

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Mark 16:19-20, Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:3-11)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Civil War, a narrative by Shelby Foote
• 1861 the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart (1865-04)
• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (

• Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever by Bill O'Reilly

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• No Graves As Yet a Novel by Anne Perry (1914-06-28)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• The destiny of the republic : a tale of medicine, madness & the murder of a president by Candice Millard (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63 : a novel by Stephen King
• The help by Kathryn Stockett
• I'll never get out of this world alive by Steve Earle
• The illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea
• The number of the beast by Robert A. Heinlein
• The tears of autumn by Charles McCarry
• The irresistible Henry House : a novel by Lisa Grunwald (1963-11-22)
• The Kennedy men : 1901-1963 : the laws of the father by Laurence Leamer (1963-11-22)
• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• The Cleopatra crisis by Nicholas Yermakov

assassination of Malcolm X

• The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X,

Assassination of Martin Luther King

• 1968 : the year that rocked the world by Mark Kurlansky (1968)

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin by Hampton Sides ([1968])

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

• 1968 : the year that rocked the world by Mark Kurlansky (1968)

Assassination of Russian imperial family

• George, Nicholas and Wilhelm : three royal cousins and the road to World War I by Miranda Carter

Assassination of the Gracchi

• SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Assault on Senator Charles Sumner

• The road to disunion by William W. Freehling (1856)

asteroid impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven

Astor Expedition

• Astoria : Astor and Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a tale of ambition and survival on the early American frontier by Peter Stark

Athens/Sparta War 431 BC

• Hope of earth by Piers Anthony

Atlantic Conference

• Traitor to his class : the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands (1941)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Burnt shadows by Kamila Shamsie
• The English patient : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
• Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• How to be an American housewife by Margaret Dilloway
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (1945)
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Truman by David G. McCullough (1945)

Atrika invasion

• Witch fury by Anya Bast

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• December 6: a novel by Martin Cruz Smith (1941-12-07)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• Red rabbit by Tom Clancy (1981-05-13)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1971)

Augustine's conversion

• St. Augustine's Confessions : with an English translation by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Autumn Feast

• The silver chair by C. S. Lewis

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

AVN Hall of Fame

• Sinner takes all : a memoir of love & porn by Tera Patrick

An axhead floats

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (2 Kings 6:1-7)

B'Wa Kell Rebellion

• Artemis Fowl : the Arctic incident by Eoin Colfer

Bacon's Rebellion

• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Balaam’s Donkey

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Numbers 22:21-41)

Balfour Declaration

• The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Jonathan Schneer

Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, John 1:31-34)

The Baptist War

• The long song by Andrea Levy (1832)

Barbary Wars

• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates : the forgotten war that changed American history by Brian Kilmeade

The barren fig tree

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Luke 13:6-9)

Barthes death

• The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel by Laurent Binet (1980)

Bataan Death March

• The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Actium

• Cleopatra : a life by Stacy Schiff
• Rubicon by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Adrianople

• Rome's Gothic Wars : from the third century to Alaric by Michael Kulikowski

Battle of Agincourt

• Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England by Juliet R. V. Barker (1415-10-25)

Battle of Antietam

• Lincoln's dreams by Connie Willis
• The Civil War, a narrative by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Borodino

• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The Tudors : the complete story of England's most notorious dynasty by G. J. Meyer (1485-08-22)
• The white queen by Philippa Gregory (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Franklin and Winston : an intimate portrait of an epic friendship by Jon Meacham
• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
• The Battle of Britain : myth and reality by R. J. Overy (1940)
• A short history of World War II by James L. Stokesbury (1940)
• Their finest hour by Sir Winston Churchill (1940)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Cannae

• Appian's Roman history by of Alexandria Appianus (216 BCE)
• The ghosts of Cannae : Hannibal and the darkest hour of the Roman republic by Robert L. O'Connell (216 BCE)
• Rubicon by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Caporetto

• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Carrhae

• The forgotten legion by Ben Kane
• Rubicon by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Crecy

• Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England by Juliet R. V. Barker (1346)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The hobbit, or, there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Fleurus

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1622)

Battle of Fort Pillow

• Devil's dream by Madison Smartt Bell (1864)

Battle of Freiburg

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1644)

Battle of Garriston

• The black prism by Brent Weeks

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Killer Angels (1975) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hastings

• I am the chosen king by Helen Hollick
• Harold : the last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker
• Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England by Juliet R. V. Barker (1066)
• 1066 : the hidden history in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford (1066-10-14)

Battle of Hattin

• The monks of war : the military religious orders by Desmond Seward

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Jankau

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1645)

Battle of Jenin

• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (2002-04)

Battle of Jericho

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Joshua 5:13 - 6:27)

Battle of Jutland

• Angels in the gloom : a novel by Anne Perry (1916)

Battle of Kosovo

• Tulipomania : the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused by Mike Dash (1389-6-15)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Lens

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Battle of Lepanto

• Infidels : a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft

Battle of Leyte Gulf

• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer (1944-10-26)

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Lutter

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1626-08-17)

Battle of Lützen

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1632)

Battle of Manhattan

• Percy Jackson and the last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Battle of Marathon

• Herodotus by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Mergentheim

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1645)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk down : a story of modern war by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

• Written in my own heart's blood : a novel by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Mons Graupius

• The Agricola; and The Germania by Cornelius Tacitus

Battle of Okinawa

• Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War by William Raymond Manchester (1945)
• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge (1945)

Battle of Peleliu

• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge (1944)

Battle of Poitiers

• Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England by Juliet R. V. Barker (1356)

Battle of Prague

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation 02 - Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Battle of Rheinfelden

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1638)

Battle of Rocroi

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1643)

Battle of Ronceveaux Pass

• The Basque history of the world by Mark Kurlansky

Battle of Salamis

• Lords of the sea : the epic story of the Athenian navy and the birth of democracy by John R. Hale
• Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth by Aeschylus (480 BCE-09)
• Herodotus by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)

Battle of Sevastopol

• Beautiful assassin by Michael C. White

Battle of Shiloh

• This republic of suffering death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1862-04-07)

Battle of Stadtlohn

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1623-08-06)

Battle of Stalingrad

• Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1943)

Battle of Stamford Bridge

• Harold : the last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker

Battle of Stralsund

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1628)

Battle of Tannenberg

• The monks of war : the military religious orders by Desmond Seward (1410)
• The guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1914)

Battle of Tewkesbury

• Lancaster and York : the Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1471-05-04)

Battle of the Alte Veste

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1632)

Battle of the Atlantic

• Hitler's U-boat war by Clay Blair (1945)
• A short history of World War II by James L. Stokesbury (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Franklin and Winston : an intimate portrait of an epic friendship by Jon Meacham
• Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Beyond band of brothers by Richard D. Winters (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Caribbean

• Travels with myself and another by Martha Gellhorn (1941-1945)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• Tales of the south pacific by James A. Michener (1942-05-08)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

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

Battle of the Glein

• Black horses for the king by Anne McCaffrey

Battle of the Hornburg

• The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The return of the king by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings Part 2 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Java Sea

• Ship of Ghosts : the story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors by James D. Hornfischer (1942-02-27)

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick (1876-06-26)

Battle of the Marne

• The guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1914)
• The Marne, 1914 : the opening of World War I and the battle that changed the world by Holger H. Herwig (1914)

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Thermopylae

• Herodotus by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Towton

• Lancaster and York : the Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (1461-03-29)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Tuttlingen

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1643)

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• My darling Caroline by Adele Ashworth
• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of White Mountain

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1620-11-08)

Battle of Wimpfen

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1622-05-06)

Battle of Wittstock

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1636)

Battle of Wolgast

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1631)

Battle of Zama

• Appian's Roman history by of Alexandria Appianus (202 BCE-10-19)

Battle of Zusmarshausen

• Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson (1648)

The beast from the Earth

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 13:11-18)

The beast from the sea

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Revelation 13:1-10)

Beheading of John the Baptist

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Matthew 14:6-12, Mark 6:21-29)

Berlin Crisis of 1961

• Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth by Frederick Kempe

Big Bang

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The grand design by Stephen Hawking

Big freeze of 1963

• The spy game by Georgina Harding

Birth of Jesus

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Luke 2:1-21)

Birth of Jesus foretold

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Luke 1:26-38)

Birth of John the Baptist

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Luke 1:57-80)

Birth of John the Baptist promised

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Luke 1:5-25)

Birth of Moses

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Exodus 2)

Birthdays

• The road to Oz by L. Frank Baum

Black Death

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• World without end by Ken Follett
• Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (1350)
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1340s)

Black Friday

• The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
• Cheap : the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell (1929)

Bleeding Kansas

• The road to disunion by William W. Freehling

The Blitz

• Fire watch by Connie Willis
• Hollow city : the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)
• To say nothing of the dog : or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of giants by Ken Follett (1905)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bologna massacre

• The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel by Laurent Binet (1980)

Bolshevik Revolution

• My Disillusionment with Russia by Emma Goldman (1917)
• Under a blood red sky by Kate Furnivall (1917)

Bombing of Dresden

• Armageddon in retrospect : and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace by Kurt Vonnegut
• Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
• 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

• How the soldier repairs the gramophone by Saša Stanišić (1992-1995)
• People of the book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

Boston Tea Party

• The ninth daughter by Barbara Hamilton

Boxer Rebellion

• The last empress by Anchee Min

Bozeman Trail

• The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend by Bob Drury

Breaking of the Compact

• The heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bretton Woods Conference

• Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world by Liaquat Ahamed (1944)

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

British Occupation of India

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

British Raj

• The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
• Old filth by Jane Gardam
• White Mughals : love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 (1947)
• The siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (1947)

Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

• The ghost map : a street, an epidemic and the two men who battled to save Victorian London by Steven Johnson (1854)

Bronze Age

• Island in the sea of time by S. M. Stirling

Bronze Snake

• Holy Bible | King James | Contents by Testaments Old & New (Numbers 21:4-9)

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The great bridge : the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David G. McCullough

Building of the Panama Canal

• Panama fever : the epic story of one of the greatest human achievements of all time--the building of the of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker