Book Events for clfisha
Events within the books in clfisha's library
11th century
14th century
16th century
17th century
1880s
1888
1893 Chicago World's Fair
18th century
1910
1910s
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1980s
19th century
- From Hell by Alan Moore
- The House of the Seven Gables (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
1st dissection of an elephant in Britain
- Elephantina by Andrew Drummond (1706)
7th century
Abu Ghraib Prison scandal
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (2004)
Age of Sail
AIDS epidemic
Alien Invasion
American Civil War
- Fables: storybook love by Bill Willingham
- Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (1865)
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
American Revolution
Anatomy Act
Apocalypse
Armageddon
Armenian Genocide
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- American Tabloid by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-04-04)
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-06-05)
Assassination of William McKinley
- Carter beats the Devil : a novel by Glen David Gold ([1901])
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
- Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (1981-03-30)
Battle of Armageddon
Battle of Balaclava
- Flashman at the Charge by George MacDona Fraser (1854-10-25)
Battle of Caporetto
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Maldon
- The long ships : a saga of the Viking Age by Frans G. Bengtsson (Battle of Maeldun)
Battle of Rorke's Drift
- Flashman and the Tiger: And Other Extracts from the Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser (1879)
Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Flashman and the Redskins (Flashman 06) by George MacDonald Fraser (1876-06-26)
Battle of the Somme
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)
The Battle of Troyes-Le-Mont
Battle of Waterloo
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Big Bang
Black Tuesday
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
The Board of Poor Law Guardians
British Raj
The British Women's Temperance Association
The building of the Analytic Engine
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
The building of the Difference Engine
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
Butlerian Jihad
- Dune (Remembering Tomorrow) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
California Gold Rush
Carnival
Charge of the Light Brigade
- Flashman at the Charge by George MacDona Fraser (1854-10-25)
Chicago World's Fair
- The devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893)
Christmas
Cleveland Torso Murders
COINTELPRO
Cold War
- 54 by Wu Ming,
- The spy who came in from the cold by John Le Carré
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)
The Conciliation Committee
Coordinated Attack by the Tooks
Crimean War
- The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
- Flashman at the Charge by George MacDona Fraser (1856)
Crusades
Cultural Revolution
Death of Morpheus
Death of Ray
Death of Warren G. Harding
- Carter beats the Devil : a novel by Glen David Gold ([1923])
Declaration of Helsinki
Dracula Night
Dragon Day
Durban Declaration
Easter Rising
- Preacher: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis (1916)
- Slide rule : the autobiography of an engineer by Nevil Shute (1916)
Edo period or Tokugawa period
Eighteenth Amendment
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
El final de la Reconquista con la toma de Granada por los castellanos
- Leo the African by Amin Maalouf (1492)
El imperio otomano conquista Egipto
El saqueo de Roma por los luteranos.
elections
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)
Elite Conscription Act
- The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman ( fictional event)
End of the Universe
Establishment of Israel
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1948)
The Fabian Society
Falklands War
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (1982-06-14)
First cattle drive from Texas to Montana
First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms
First Crusade
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Fourth Crusade
French Resistance
French Revolution
Funeral Rule
Georgian Era
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
Gold Rush
- The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt (1855)
Golden Age of Comic Books
Great Comet of 1819
Great Depression
- Bayou: 1 by Jeremy Love
- Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
- The Road to Perdition - Volume 1 (New Edition) by Max Allan Collins
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
- The Unwritten - On to Genesis (Vol. 5) by Mike Carey
The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork
Great Leap Forward
The Great Revelation
- All together dead by Charlaine Harris
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Dead and Gone: A True Blood Novel (Sookie Stackhouse Vampire 9) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead to the world by Charlaine Harris
- Dead Until Dark: A True Blood Novel by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely dead by Charlaine Harris
- From dead to worse by Charlaine Harris
- Living dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Dead as a doornail by Charlaine Harris (fictional)
Gulf War
- The crow road by Iain Banks (1990-1991)
GulfCon
Guy Fawkes Night
Heaven's Gate suicides
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1997)
Heian period
Holocaust
- The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)
Hurricane Donna
Hurricane Katrina
The Ides of March
Indian Mutiny
- Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser (1858-06)
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Industrial Revolution
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Iraq War
Italian Renaissance
Jack the Ripper Murders
Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Japanese Occupation
Jazz Age
- Carter beats the Devil : a novel by Glen David Gold
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Kefauver Senate Hearings
Khmer Rouge rule of 1975–1979
The Law and Liberty League
Liberal Party, UK
The London School Board
Manhattan Project
The Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement
Middle Ages
Mint 400 Race
MK-ULTRA experiments
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1964)
Murder of Katherine Soames
Napoleonic Wars
- Grandville : a fantasy by Bryan Talbot
- Master and commander by Patrick O'Brian
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
National Women's League Federation
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
Nizari Ismaili state
The North-of-England Weavers' Association
Panic of 1837
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
Partition of India
Peninsular War
Persian Constitutional Revolution
plagues
- The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington (Bubonic Plague)
Prehistoric Age
Premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
- Lost Girls by Alan Moore (1913)
The Primrose League
Prohibition--USA
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Quest of Erebor
R100 Airship project
Reformation
Regency Era
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
Reign of Malik Shah I
Renaissance
Romanticism
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
Russian Revolution
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1917)
Salem witch trials
The Salvation Army
The Scottish Women's Liberal Federation
Second Crusade
Siege at Ruby Ridge
- Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson (1992)
Siege of Cawnpore
- Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser (1857-06-25)
Siege of Leningrad
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1944-01-27)
Siege of Sebastopol
- Flashman at the Charge by George MacDona Fraser (1855)
Slavery in colonial times and after the American Revolution
Son of Sam Killings
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Golden Age
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Student Protests
- Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)
Superflu epidemic
Taiping Rebellion
Tang Dynasty
Terra Nova Expedition
Third Crusade
Total eclipse of the sun
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (July 20, 1963)
The Troubles
Trujillo dictatorship
Tuskegee syphilis study
Twenty-First Amendment
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Two Hundred Years' War
United States presidential election
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (1960)
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson (1972)
- The dead zone by Stephen King (1976)
veganism
Victorian Era
- From Hell by Alan Moore
- The invisible man by H. G Wells
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WILDE
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua
- Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser (1901)
Vietnam War
- Bad science by Ben Goldacre
- The brothers K by David James Duncan
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy ( 1975)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
Viking Age
Volstead Act
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Waco Branch Davidian Siege
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (1993)
Walpurgis Night
The War in Heaven
The War on Drugs
- The Beach by Alex Garland (1971-?)
Watergate Scandal
Weimar Republic
Whit Monday
Whitechapel Murders
- The lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1891)
The Women's Co-operative Guild
The Women's Franchise League
Women's Liberal Associations
The Women's Liberal Federation
The Women's Social and Political Union
Women's Suffrage
The Women's Suffrage Society
World Trade Center Attack
World Trade Center Attacks
- Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout by Philip Connors (2001-09-11)
World War I
- Europe: A History by Norman Davies
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- Lost Girls by Alan Moore
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
- The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman (1918)
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
World War II
- Alan's war by Emmanuel Guibert
- Bad science by Ben Goldacre
- The blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes
- Europe: A History by Norman Davies
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Ports Of Call by Amin Maalouf
- Rogue male by Geoffrey Household
- 1984 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (1945)
- The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1945)
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1945)
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (1945)
- Purge by Sofi Oksanen (1945)
- The tin drum by Günter Grass (1945)
- A Town Like Alice (Vintage Classics) by Nevil Shute Norway (Malaya)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1944)
World War II, Pacific Theater
World War II, Ultra
World War III
World's Columbian Exposition
- The devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
The Wreck of the Essex
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick (1820-11-20)
Yugoslav Wars
- The tiger's wife by Téa Obreht (1991-1995)