The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Alice refuses Hamish's proposal and becomes Lord Ascot's apprentice when she suggests that they could begin trade routes with China. (London, England - Alice in Wonderland)
Alice returns to Wonderland and has to slay the Red Queen's Jabberwocky. (Underland - Alice in Wonderland)
Hamish Ascot proposes to Alice Kingsleigh at an engagement party. Alice runs away to chase a white rabbit. (London, England - Alice in Wonderland)
Phileas Fogg journeys around the world, in about 80 days. (Around the World in 80 Days)
Dorian Gray is born. (Dorian Gray)
3rd July: Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout leave London for a tour of the world, intending to return in 80 days. (London, England - Around the World in 80 Days)
3rd July: The Bank of London is robbed of £20,000. (London, England - Around the World in 80 Days)
21st July: News reaches London that, eighteen days after leaving, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have arrived in Suez, Egypt. (Around the World in 80 Days)
25th July: Phileas Fogg and Passepartout leave for Hong Kong on a steamer, now accompanied by the princess Aouda. (Calcutta, India - Around the World in 80 Days)
Sybil Vane, future actress and sweetheart of Dorian Gray, is born. (Dorian Gray)
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)
14th January: Albert Schweitzer is born (Haut-Rhin, France - Schweitzer)
3rd June: Georges Bizet dies. (Paris, France - The Doors)
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)
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: Jonah Hex defeats Quentin Turnbull, stopping Turnbull's plan to destroy Washington D.C. (Washington D.C. - Jonah Hex)
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 )
5th September: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse (Ft. Robinson, Nebraska - They Died with Their Boots On )
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)
17th August: Faced with the miscarriage of Count Vronsky's baby, Anna Karenina sends her estranged husband, Alexei Karenin, an urgent telegram readng: "I am dying. I beg...I implore you to come. I shall die easier with your forgiveness." Karenin makes arrangements to return to St. Petersburg on the overnight train. (St. Petersburg, Russia - Anna Karenina)
18th August: Count Vronsky arrives at the Karenin home just in time to witness the near-death reconciliation between Anna and Alexei. After Alexei Karenin orders him from their house, Vronsky goes home and makes a failed suicide attempt. (St. Petersburg, Russia - Anna Karenina)
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)
Lillian Crabtree is born. (Louisville, Kentucky - The Return of the Living Dead)
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)