Because larps go much easier if you write them a year in advance, here’s some historical inspiration from Wikipedia for next year:
1991
- Splintering of the USSR
- Collapse of Yugoslavia
- Books: Outlander (yes, Mary-Sue in the C18th)
- Computer games: Civ!
- Film: T2, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Addams Family
1976
- US Bicentennial
- death of Agatha Christie (murder-larp mashup!)
- Books: The Dark Side of the Sun
- Science: the Face on Mars photo
- TV: Open All Hours
1966
- TV: Star Trek, Mission: Impossible
- Books: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Man For All Seasons
- Deaths: C. S. Forester (Hornblower), Cordwainer Smith
1916
- Worthy but difficult topics: The Easter Rising
- WWI: The Somme (A million dead)
- NZ: Formation of Labour Party; sedition trials
- Books: The Metamorphosis
1891
- Books: Sherlock Holmes
- Books: The Picture of Dorian Gray
1866
- Reconstruction after US Civil War
- Books: Crime and Punishment
- Births: Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit larp!), H G Wells, Sun Yat Sen
1816
- Gothic: Byron / Wollstonecraft / Shelley / Polidori’s party on Lake Geneva.
- The Raft of the Medusa
- Births: Charlotte Brontë
- Poetry: Kubla Khan (who is the person from Porlock?)
1766
- Ancien Regime: execution of Jean-François Lefebvre de la Barre
- Deaths: James Francis Edward Stuart (“The Old Pretender” - more bloody Jacobites!)
1716
- Jacobites!
- Blackbeard begins his career as a pirate
1666
- Annus mirabilis!
- The Great Fire of London
- Calculus. The spectrum. Gravity. Hooke. The Royal Society.
1616
- Galileo’s defence
- Cardinal Richelieu appointed French Secretary of State (beginning of his reign)
- Books: Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (the supposed foundations of the Rosicrcians Fnord)
- Deaths: William Shakespeare
1516
- Books: Utopia (Moore again!)
1266
- End of the Second Baron’s War
- marco Polo and family reach the court of Ghengis Khan