The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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)
The James gang end their campaign of over 25 robberies. (The Assassination of Jesse James)
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)
12th July: Modernist painter Amedeo Modigliani is born. (Livorno, Tuscany - Modigliani)
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)
April: William Sean McFly born to Seamus and Maggie McFly, and becomes the first McFly to be born in America. (Back to the Future Part III)
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)
4th September: Geronimo surrenders to U.S. government troops. (near Ft. Bowie, Arizona - Geronimo)