Given all the books that are titled 1395 [or some other year] - The Year of Something Important, I was half hoping to be able to write one day a book entitled 1245 [or some other year] - The Year Nothing Happened.
Sadly I have been beaten to it well before. Ray Huang, a historian of China, published a book in the 1980s titled 1587, A Year of No Significance - The Ming Dynasty in Decline. It's next up on my reading list for this summer.
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For more levity in this vein, a book worth checking out is 1066 and All That, subtitled A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates. It's even been adapted into a musical play!
Hooray for History!
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