Because larps go much easier if you write them a year in advance, here’s some historical inspiration from Wikipedia for next year:
1993
- NZ votes for MMP
- The Waco standoff
- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created
- Magic: the Gathering
- Books: A Fire Upon the Deep, Doomsday Book
- Computer games: Doom
- TV: Deep Space 9
1968
- Apollo 8
- TV: “The Prisoner” ends
- Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead
- Books: Stand on Zanzibar, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Wombles, A Wizard of Earthsea
1943
- Building of Colossus, the first electronic computer
- Beginning of the Manhattan Project
- Film: Casablanca
- Books: The Little Prince
- Births: R L Stein
- Deaths: Beatrix Potter
1918
- The Spanish flu pandemic
- The end of WWI
- The Russian Revolution rolls on
- Women’s Suffrage in the UK
- Deaths: William Hope Hodgson
1893
- Women’s suffrage in NZ
- Chicago World’s Fair
- Births: Dorothy Sayers, Clark Ashton Smith
1868
- Meiji Restoration
- Titokowaru’s War
- Books: Little Women
1843
- William Miller predicts the end of the world. It doesn’t happen.
- First wagon train on the Oregon Trail (Die of Dystentry: the larp)
- Ada Lovelace writes the first computer program
- Books: A Christmas Carol
1818
- Books: Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
- Births: Emily Bronte
1718
- Death of Blackbeard; end of the Golden Age of Piracy
1618
- Defenestration of Prague
1518
- Dancing Plague of Strasbourg
1268
- The first Venice Carnival