September 23 Mark the Calendar

September 23 Mark the Calendar

1803. Sharpe makes Ensign in reward for his heroics.
-Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

August 17 Mark the Calendar

August 17 Mark the Calendar

1808. Sharpe is promoted to a Lieutenancy.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

July 22 - Mark the Calendar

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1812. Sharpe is wounded and left for dead.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

June 27 - Mark the Calendar

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1812. Leroux shoots Sharpe in the stomach.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

1880 Dr John Watson is injured at the battle of Maiwand.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet.

June 23 - Mark the Calendar

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1777. Richard Sharpe is born in Howick Place, London, to an alcoholic prostitute.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga

1796. Harriet Smith is born.
--Jane Austen: Emma.

1881 Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of the Musgrave Ritual.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Musgrave Ritual.

June 21 - Mark the Calendar

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1813. Sharpe rescues Helena and bags some loot.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

2540: Bernice Summerfield is born.
--Lance Parkin: Just War.

Archie Goodwin salutes the finale of the Fer-de-Lance and then witnesses a plane crash.
--Rex Stout: Fer-de-Lance.

Miss Witherfield pays a call on George Nupkins, Esquire, to report an impending duel.
--Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers.

June 18 - Mark the Calendar

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1812. Sharpe joins Wellington's main army on the San Christobal Ridge.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.

1887. Watson finds Holmes in an opium den in Upper Swandam Lane.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip.

1889. Holmes warns a stockbroker's clerk that he is the victim of identity theft.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Stockbroker's Clerk.

2002. Harry has a remarkably bad day which starts by toads raining down in Chicago.
--Jim Butcher: The Dresden Files.