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17th February: The soldiers from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's army ransack Columbia, South Carolina, and leave a charred city in their wake. (Columbia, South Carolina - How the West Was Won)
2nd April: The Confederates are loading Confederate $20 gold coins aboard the ironclad CSS Texas, which has a gun battle down river until disappearing into a fog bank, to be found 140 years later by Dirk Pitt of NUMA in the Sahara desert. (The James River, Vingina - Sahara)
9th April: Col. Owen Devereaux chooses to ignore a white flag of surrender and orders the slaughter of a hundred Confederate soldiers. (Jacob's Bend, Colorado Territory - The Man From Colorado)
14th April: A half-man, half-fish hybrid is found, and named Abraham. (Hellboy)
14th April: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. (Washington, D.C. - National Treasure: Book of Secrets)
14th April: Vice President Andrew Johnson receives a note from John Wilkes Booth: "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home?" Johnson dismisses it as being from "just another office seeker". (Washington, D.C. - Tennessee Johnson)
6th June: William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers. (Kentucky - Quantrill's Raiders )
July: Under orders from the U.S. Army, Capt. Gideon and his men arrive to arrest former Confederate officer Col. Morsman Carver. Capt. Gideon orders the torching of the barn, but the house catches fire as well. Carver's wife & family are killed in the blaze. (Seraphim Falls - Seraphim Falls)
5th July: The United States Secret Service is formed. (Washington, D.C. - The Sentinel)
5th September: Hill Valley becomes a city. (California - Back to the Future Part III)
Captain Nemo travels with his submarine. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
11 year old Clara Clayton becomes interested in astronomy when her father gives her a telescope when she has diphtheria. (Back to the Future Part III)
Bill Miner, "The Gentleman Bandit", robs his first stagecoach. (The Grey Fox)
An iron-clad ship was sighted sailing up the Niger River after a very severe storm. (Mali - Sahara)
4th August: Ret. Union Major Jeff Clanton is recognized by the proprietor of the Cherokee Springs Trading Post from his wanted poster and is forced to shoot his way out; he flees with the Fowler Detective Agency hot on his trail. (Cherokee Springs, Missouri - Best of the Badmen)
26th October: William "Kid" Gleason is born. (Camden, New Jersey - Eight Men Out)
21st December: Determined to challenge the growing American military presence in their territory, Indians lure Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his soldiers into a deadly ambush. (Wyoming - Chief Crazy Horse)
Captain Nemo saves Professor Arronax. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
A Spanish gold doubloon finds its way onto the future ghost-ship Elizabeth Dane. (The Fog)
The Grand Hotel opens. (Straits of Mackinac - Somewhere In Time)
Former Confederate officer Col. Morson Carver tracks former Union officer Capt. Gideon from the Ruby Mountains into the desert near Carson City to avenge the deaths of his wife & family. (northern Nevada - Seraphim Falls)
Carver and some hired men track and attempt to kill his former superior officer Gideon. (Seraphim Falls)
Two cowboys take on a mad professor with mechanoid arachnid. (Wild Wild West)
13th March: President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial begins; Representative Stevens acts as prosecutor. (Washington, D.C. - Tennessee Johnson)
2nd June: Professor Arronax and his crew escape the Nautilus. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
19th June: Father De Smet talks peace with Sitting Bull. (Montana - The Flaming Frontier)
24th November: Scott Joplin is born. (Texarkana, Arkansas - Scott Joplin)
Two boys, Caleb and Benjamin, bury the board game 'Jumanji'. (nr Brantford, New Hampshire - Jumanji)
11th July: Tall Bull is killed during the Battle of Summit Springs. (Colorado - Buffalo Bill)
20th July: "The Innocents Abroad" is published. (Mark Twain, American)
8th October: Franklin Pierce dies. (Concord, New Hampshire - Great Moment, The )
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea first published. (Back to the Future Part III)
Beatrix Potter is born. (Miss Potter)
Christine Daae sings "Think of Me" and is reunited with Raoul; they are engaged to be wed. (Paris - The Phantom of the Opera)
Young Sherlock Holmes, presumably 16, meets young Dr Watson. (Young Sherlock Holmes)
17th July: "Wild Bill" Hickok shoots two soldiers in self-defense, mortally wounding one of them . (Hays City, Kansas - Wild Bill)
September: Louis de Pointe du Lac meets Armand for the first time; Cludia and Madeline are murdered by the Theatre des Vampires, whom Louis de Pointe du Lac then murders in kind. (Paris - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
The Opera Populaire is devastated by a fire resulting from the Phantom's shattering of the chandelier. (Paris - The Phantom of the Opera)
10th April: John Malone meets Blake who wants to buy half of the island to use as a leper colony for his people. (Antonio Island - The Fog)
1st June: John Wesley Hardin arrives in Abilene. (Abilene, Kansas - Dirty Dingus Magee)
Phileas Fogg journeys around the world, in about 80 days. (Around the World in 80 Days)
American army adopts the Colt Peacemaker in cal.45; rapidly becomes a western favorite. "God made men, but Col.Colt made them equal". (American West - The Fastest Gun Alive)
7th April: John McGraw is born. (Truxton, New York - Jim Thorpe -- All-American)
24th December: Navy Lt. Richard L. Perry, future secret undercover cop for President William McKinley, is born. (This is My Affair)
Arsene Lupin, future jewelry thief born. (Blois, France - Arsène Lupin (2004))
Bart becomes the first black Sheriff in the West at the order of Hedley Lemar. (The American West - Blazing Saddles)
8th March: Millard Fillmore dies. (Buffalo, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
8th June: Apache Chief Cochise dies. (Southeastern Arizona - Taza, Son of Cochise)
6th August: Law officers kill Jim Reed, the first husband of the famous bandit queen Belle Starr. (Belle Starr)
10th August: Herbert Hoover is born. (West Branch, Iowa - The Day the Bubble Burst)
23rd November: Hilda Bouverie kicks off her triumphant European tour singing "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Teatro del Corso. (Bologna, Italy - Stingeree)
Black slave Cassie Brown murders the three white children in her charge. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
18 year-old Tristan Thorn goes through the wall to catch a fallen star to deliver to his beloved Victoria; an evil witch chases after the star, Evaine, as do the few remaining princes to discover who will be the next king. (Wall - Stardust)
20th June: Mountain man Joe Meek dies. (Oregon - Bridger )
Leopold, Duke of Albany, is accidentally transported to 2001. (New York, New York - Kate & Leopold)
Captain Nathan Algren arrives in Japan. (Japan - The Last Samurai)
The soon-to-be-villainous El Guapo is born. (Mexico - Three Amigos)
12th January: Jack London is born. (San Francisco, California - Jack London)
19th April: A commission votes not to rehire policeman Wyatt Earp after he beats up a candidate for County Sheriff. (Wichita, Kansas - Wyatt Earp)
24th April: Erich Raeder, future commander of the German Navy, is born. (Nuremberg)