The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
28th April: Brooklyn Bridge is unveiled. (Kate & Leopold)
22nd June: General Santa Anna dies. (Mexico City - Heroes of the Alamo)
26th June: Major Marcus Reno takes command of 7th Cavalry. (southern Montana - Custer of the West )
4th July: At the Centennial Rifle Shoot, judged by Wyatt Earp, Lin McAdam wins a Winchester rifle after shooting a hole through a postage stamp affixed to a coin-sized trinket while in mid air; loser Dutch Henry Brown ambushes Lin and steals the rifle. (Dodge City, Kansas - Winchester '73)
2nd August: "Wild Bill" Hickok is murdered. (Deadwood, South Dakota - Wild Bill)
8th January: Crazy Horse and his warriors--outnumbered, low on ammunition and forced to use outdated weapons to defend themselves--fight their final losing battle against the U.S. Cavalry. (Montana - They Died with Their Boots On )
5th May: Sitting Bull and a band of followers cross into Canada hoping to find safe haven from the U.S. Army. (Sitting Bull)
10th May: Rutherford B. Hayes has first phone installed in White House. (Washington, D.C. - Buffalo Bill)
15th June: Henry O. Flipper is 1st African-American to graduate from U.S. Military Academy. (West Point, New York - Trial of the Moke, The )
21st June: "Molly Maguires" hung for murder. (Pennsylvania - The Molly Maguires)
17th August: Billy the Kid wounds a blacksmith who dies the next day. (Arizona - Young Guns)
23rd August: Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin. (Florida - Texas Rangers, The )
31st December: Billy The Kid first meets Pat Garrett. (Young Guns)
1st January: John Tunstall is assassinated by Murphy's henchmen while hunting a pheasant. (Young Guns)
26th July: Assistant Marshal Wyatt Earp trades shots with a band of drunken cowboys, fatally wounding one of them. (Dodge City - Wyatt Earp)
18th December: John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed. (Pennsylvania - The Molly Maguires)
Billy the Kid is kidnapped and taken to the future. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Chester A Arthur nominated Vice-President of the United States of America. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
Zulu retreat, and someone runs off with officer Perkins' right leg. (Natal/Glasgow - The Meaning of Life)
22nd January: Pursuing American soldiers badly beat Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife and his people as they make a desperate bid for freedom. In doing so, the soldiers effectively crushed the so-called Dull Knife Outbreak. (Custer of the West )
22nd January: After the Battle of Isandlwana, 139 soldiers hold off 4000 Zulu warriors in a 12hr battle, winning 11 Victoria Crosses. (Rorke's Drift - Zulu)
25th March: Little Wolf surrenders to his friend Lieutenant W.P. Clark. (Ride Out for Revenge )
19th July: Doc Holliday commits his first murder, killing a man for shooting up his New Mexico saloon. (New Mexico - Wyatt Earp)
28th August: King Cetshwayo, the last great ruler of Zululand, is captured by the British following his defeat in the British-Zulu War. (Zulu Dawn)
4th November: Will Rogers is born. (Oklahoma - Story of Will Rogers, The )
Seamus and Maggie McFly arrive emigrate from Ireland to America. (Back to the Future Part III)
John Fauntroy, the father of modern slavery, receives the Democratic nomination for president of the Confederate States of America. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
The Earp family arrives. (Tombstone, AZ - Tombstone)
27th June: Helen Keller is born. (Tuscumbia, Alabama - The Miracle Worker)
Chester A Arthur becomes 21st President of the United States of America. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
Princess Pei Pei is rescued from kidnap in Nevada by a Chinese imperial guard and a cowboy. (Shanghai Noon)
Gunfight at the OK Corral. (Tombstone)
16th April: Bat Masterson fights the last gun battle of his life. (Dodge City - Masterson of Kansas)
10th June: Count Leo Tolstoy sets off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant. (Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father )
2nd July: President James Garfield assassinated by Charles J Guiteau. (Unforgiven)
4th July: Little Bill Daggett beats up and arrests English Bob for carrying concealed firearms. (Big Whisky, WY - Unforgiven)
13th July: Billy the Kid is shot to death. (New Mexico - Young Guns 2)
26th October: After years of feuding and mounting tensions the “law and order” Earps and the “cowboy” Clanton-McLaurys engage in their world-famous shoot-out leaving three men dead and three more wounded. (Tombstone, Arizona - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral )
Presidential nominee John Fauntroy, the father of modern slavery, dies. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
2nd February: James Joyce is born. (Dublin, Ireland - James Joyce's Women )
3rd April: Jesse James is murdered. (I Shot Jesse James)
14th July: Gunfighter John Ringo found dead. (Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona - Tombstone)
August: The defeated King of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, meets Queen Victoria in order to get his kingdom back. (England - Shaka Zulu)
Writer H.G.Wells travels in time chasing his friend who turns out to be Jack the Ripper, to Los Angeles. (London, England - Time After Time)
21st August: The trial of Frank James begins. (Gallatin, Missouri - The Return of Frank James)
Mad Dog Tannen shoots 12 men, not including some Indians and some Chinamen. (Back to the Future Part III)
Judah P. Benjamin, supporter of Confederacy, dies. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Princess Ida flops in the theatre. (Topsy-Turvy)
8th May: Harry S Truman is born. (Lamar, Missouri - Truman)
19th June: Eddie Cicotte is born. (Spring Wells, Michigan - Eight Men Out)
23rd June: Alfred Kinsey born. (Kinsey)
11th October: Eleanor Roosevelt is born. (New York City - Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
1st December: Elfego Baca manages to hold off a gang of 80 cowboys who are determined to kill him. (Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law)
Chester A Arthur finishes presidency of the United States of America. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
Allan Quatermain discovers King Solomon's Mines. (King Solomon's Mines)
A woman in New Mexico reunites with her estranged father to rescue her daughter. (The Missing)
Chon Lin runs into an attempted-murderer, who may or may not be the future Jack The Ripper. (London - Shanghai Knights)
Gilbert and Sullivan create The Mikado after nearly splitting. (Topsy-Turvy)
1st January: On the spot of New Year, Dr Emmett L Brown arrives in Hill Valley from 1955. (Back to the Future Part III)
April: William Sean McFly born. (Back to the Future Part III)