The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
11th October: Her Majesty Queen Victoria holds a dinner party followed by a dance in honour of H.S.H. Prince Ernest and H.S.H. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mr. Johann Strauss and his company of musicians once again have the honour of performing for Her Majesty. Victoria and Albert warm to one another during their first waltz together. Victoria informs Lord Melbourne that she has made up her mind and decides to propose marriage to Albert. (London England - Victoria the Great)
5th December: Union General George Armstrong Custer is born. (Harrison County, Ohio - They Died with Their Boots On )
Captain John Boyd investigates rumours of cannibalism at a remote fort. (Ravenous)
24th February: Former President John Quincy Adams begins to argue the Amistad case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Washington, D.C. - Amistad)
7th April: Down-on-his-luck farmer, Jabez Stone, sells his soul to the Devil (aka, Mr. Scratch) for a fortune in Hessian gold. (New Hampshire, USA - The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Alejandro Murrieta becomes the new Zorro as Don Rafael Montero plots to exploit Californian peasants. (The Mask of Zorro)
10th May: James Gordon Bennett Jr is born. (New York City - Stanley and Livingstone)
8th April: Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born. (Monroe, Michigan - Custer of the West )
4th November: Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd. (Springfield, Illinois - Young Mr. Lincoln )
10th January: Frank James is born. (Clay County, Missouri - The Assassination of Jesse James)
29th January: William McKinley is born. (Niles, Ohio - Rough Riders)
24th December: Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by several ghosts in order to change his ways. (A Christmas Carol)
25th December: Ebeneezer Scrooge changes his ways and finally gives a pay-raise to his employee Bob Cratchit. (London - A Christmas Carol)
Zeke Kern is born. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master II)
4th March: Akashi Clan House Elder Zusho Mamiya commits ritual harakiri as a public protest against the Shogun's decision to elevate his evil, sadistic half-brother, Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, to a seat on the Shogun Council. (Japan - 13 Assassins)
7th March: Shogun Council Elder Sir Doi compels samurai Shinzaemon Shimada to assemble a team of assassins to kill Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira before he can reach Edo to take a seat on the Shogun Council. (Japan - 13 Assassins)
19th May: Nicholas and Joanna Van Ryn, powerful landowners, invite Miranda Wells, an ambitious farmer's daughter and distant relative, to live at their mansion on the Dragonwyck estate to act as a companion to their young daughter Katrine. (Hudson Valley, New York - Dragonwyck)
27th June: Joseph and Hyrum Smith are murdered when an anti-Mormon mob breaks into a jail where they are being held. (Carthage, Illinois - September Dawn)
October: Sarah Bernhardt is born on the 22nd or 23rd. (Paris, France - The Doors)
Dr Dolittle spoke to some animals. (Dr. Dolittle)
Albus Dumbledore born. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Sam Houston is dissuaded from establishing Texas as a republic by cattle baron Devereaux Burke. (Texas - Lone Star)
The shop where Tristan Thorn will later work is established. (Wall - Stardust)
James "Wolverine" Logan extracts his bone claws for the first time killing his biological father, because he murdered his foster father. He runs away with brother Victor to the United States afterwards. (Canada - X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
29th June: James Dupp is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill. (New York - Gangs of New York)
Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. (Help!)
Oscar Wilde born. (Velvet Goldmine)
16th February: Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill. (Five Points, New York - Gangs of New York)
Mycroft Holmes, brother of Sherlock, is born. (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
5th September: Jesse James is born. (Clay County, Missouri - The Assassination of Jesse James)
24th January: Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek. (East of San Francisco, California - Sutter's Gold)
21st February: John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke. (Amistad)
22nd August: Ulysses S. Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent. (St. Louis, Missouri - Strange Glory)
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
Grandpa Sawyer is born. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
16th May: The ship Land o'Lakes out of Buffalo, NY, bound for Milwalkee encounters a four-bell force gale, strikes a reef and flounders; all hands are lost, including Capt. Joshua Stuart and sixty immigrants from the Old World. (Lake Michigan, USA - Thunder Rock)
15th June: James K. Polk dies. (Nashville - The Monroe Doctrine)
6th August: Harriet, future wife of James Dupp, is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Huck Finn has adventures. (The Adventures of Huck Finn)
Hill Valley is founded. (California - Back to the Future Part III)
The Scarlet Letter is published. (Easy A)
Hancock rescues Mary from their burning house. (USA - Hancock)
John Hancock drags Mary Embrey from flames after a house-fire. (Hancock)
Alejandro de la Vega saves California's statehood and wins back his wife Elena from French Count Armand. (California - The Legend of Zorro)
9th July: Zachary Taylor dies of cholera morbus. (Washington, DC - Rebellion)
5th August: Guy de Maupassant is born. (Dieppe, France - Guy de Maupassant)
Dr Samuel A. Cartwright writes "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race", in which he describes Drapetomania as a prevalent but curable condition in runaway slaves. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Alice, of Wonderland fame, born. (Alice in Wonderland (1951))
1st May: Calamity Jane is born. (Princeton, Missouri - Calamity Jane)
A fraternity known as BKE begins. (Accepted)
The year on Jennie Beck's gravestone. (Rennie's Landing)
22nd January: J. Smith dies. (New Jersey - Bride of Chucky)
30th March: Vincent van Gogh is born. (Netherlands - Lust for Life)
8th July: Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. (Japan - Bushido Blade, The )
25th July: California Rangers kill Joaquin Murrieta. (Joaquin Murrieta)
20th October: Arthur Rimbaud is born. (Charleville, France - Total Eclipse)
Sherlock Holmes born. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Christine Daae born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
Sherlock Holmes born (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)