Because larps go much easier if you write them a year in advance, here’s some historical inspiration from Wikipedia for next year:
- Gormenghast (and everything by Mervyn Peake)
- The Jungle (and everything by Upton Sinclair)
- The Grapes of Wrath (and everything by John Steinbeck)
- The Famous Five (and everything by Enid Blyton)
1994
- Film: The Lion King, Interview With A Vampire
- TV: B5 begins, TNG ends
- Games: XCom / UFO: Enemy Unknown
1969
- The Moon landing
- Stonewall riots
- Woodstock
- The first ARPANET message is sent (the internet is born!)
- Books: The Left hand of Darkness, Dune Messiah, Master and Commander, The Godfather, Flashman, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- TV: Scooby Doo. Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Sesame Street. Looney Tunes / Merry Melodies ends
1944
- Film: Gaslight
- Births: Terry Brooks (Shanarra)
1919
- The Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
- Women’s Suffrage in the US
- Births: Isaac Asimov
- Deaths: L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz)
1894
- The Dreyfus Affair
- Books: The Jungle Book, The Great God Pan
- Deaths: Robert Louis Stevenson
1869
- Books: War and Peace
1844
- The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
- YMCA founded
1819
- Peterloo Massacre
- First steamship crosses the Atlantic
- Books: The Vampyre, Ivanhoe
1769
- James Cook lands in New Zealand, at Poverty Bay
1719
- Books: Robinson Crusoe
519
- Foundation of the Kingdom of Wessex