The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
17th May: Geronimo flees Arizona reservation. (Arizona - Geronimo)
26th May: Al Jolson is born. (St. Petersburg, Russia - The Jolson Story)
24th June: Woodrow Wilson marries Ellen Axson. (Savannah, Georgia - Wilson)
4th July: Doc Brown knocked out by one shot of whisky. (Back to the Future Part III)
23rd July: Former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer. (Mt. McGregor, New York - Wild Wild West)
29th August: In one timeline, the townsfolk arrange who will pick up Clara, the new schoolteacher, but no one volunteers. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
1st September: Doc Brown hides the Delorean in Delgado mine and writes to Marty in the future. (Back to the Future Part III)
2nd September: 8am – Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley from 1955. (Back to the Future Part III)
4th September: Clara Clayton supposedly dies in "The Clayton Ravine", or is saved by Doc Brown. (Back to the Future Part III)
4th September: In one timeline, Clara Clayton and her horse career into Shonash Ravine, to be renamed after her. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
5th September: 8pm - The clock tower in Hill Valley starts running. (Back to the Future Part III)
7th September: A train falls into a ravine, and Marty McFly travels through time to 1985. (Back to the Future Part III)
29th September: Upon receiving a letter from the London landlady of her slightly-insane sisters, Emily and Lousa, threatening their immediate eviction and possible institutionalization, Miss Ellen Creed asks permission of Leonora Fiske, with whom she is employed as companion, to bring them home for a brief visit. Miss Fiske will live just long enough to regret saying, "Yes." (10 miles east of Gravesend, England - Ladies in Retirement)
11th November: George S Patton Jr is born. (San Gabriel, California - Patton)
11th November: Future actress Elise McKenna is born. (Salt Lake City - Somewhere In Time)
An American Tail. (An American Tail)
The rail bridge over Clayton Ravine is completed. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
John Merrick, the Elephant Man, is befriended by Dr Frederick Treves. (London - The Elephant Man)
Allan Quatermain fakes his own death. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
27th May: Jack Slade, Jr is hired by Joseph Ryan of the Pinkerton Agency to track and bring to justice the notorious "Wild Bunch". (St. Louis, Missouri - The Return of Jack Slade)
19th June: William Howard Taft marries Helen Herron. (Cincinnati, Ohio - The Winds of Kitty Hawk)
7th August: Bill McKechnie is born. (Wilkinsburg, PA - The Babe)
18th November: Chester A. Arthur dies. (New York City - Cattle King)
18th December: Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb is born. (Narrows, Georgia - Cobb)
The bridge over the ravine is completed. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
Paolo Andolini, elder brother of the future Godfather, is born. (The Godfather)
Captain Elliott Spenser (Pinhead) was born into the middle class British society of the Victorian Era (Britain - Hellraiser)
The Island of Dr Moreau. (Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1977))
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon fight for the Imperial Seal. (London - Shanghai Knights)
Dracula (Vladislaus Valerious) kills Dr Victor Frankenstein at Frankenstein's castle. (Transylvania - Van Helsing)
26th February: Grover Cleveland Alexander is born. (Elba, Nebraska - The Winning Team)
2nd May: Eddie Collins is born. (Millerton, New York - Eight Men Out)
15th August: Edna Ferber is born. (Kalamazoo, Michigan - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
8th November: John "Doc" Holliday dies from tuberculosis. (Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Tombstone)
17th November: Bernard Law Montgomery is born. (London, England - Patton)
Chisholm, Minnesota founded as a town. (Minnesota - Field of Dreams)
Jack The Ripper is identified as the Royal Family's doctor. (From Hell)
Dracula wipes out the Valerious family, and is killed once again by Van Helsing. (Van Helsing)
19th January: Arnold "Chick" Gandil is born. (St. Paul, Minnesota - Eight Men Out)
4th March: Knute Rockne is born. (Voss, Norway - Knute Rockne All American )
4th April: Tris Speaker is born. (Hubbard, Texas - The Babe)
22nd November: Lord Greystoke born, and adopted by Kala the ape. (Tarzan)
Gotham City celebrates it's centennial. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
"Dirt Dragons" (known in future generations as "Graboids") plague a small desert community; they are killed and the community swears never to mention them again. (Rejection Valley, Nevada - Tremors 4: The Legend Begins)
3rd February: The outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous "Bandit Queen" with two shotgun blasts from behind. (Oklahoma - Belle Starr)
16th April: Charlie Chaplin is born. (Walworth, London, England - Chaplin)
20th April: Adolf Hitler is born. (Braunau am Inn, Austria - Hitler: The Rise of Evil)
16th July: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson is born. (Pickens County, South Carolina - Eight Men Out)
Count Dracula arrives and encounters Van Helsing. (London - Dracula)
The Hound of the Baskervilles. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Sir Robert Chiltern turns to Lord Arthur Goring when blackmailed by Mrs Laura Cheveley. (An Ideal Husband)
Beatrix Potter has her final suitor brought to her by her mother - she rejects him just as she has with so many others. (Miss Potter)
11th April: John Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies. (London - The Elephant Man)
16th June: Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson) is born. (Ulverston, England - Chaplin)
17th June: Daniel Nicholson alleged to have been born - later proved to be a lie. (Philadelphia, PA - The Village)
18th August: George "Buck" Weaver is born. (Pottstown, Pennsylvania - Eight Men Out)
15th September: Agatha Christie is born. (Torquay, Devon, England. - Agatha)
14th October: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born. (near Abilene, Texas - The Right Stuff)
Future prison guard Paul Edgecomb is born. (The Green Mile)
July: First Sherlock Holmes short story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. (London - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)