The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Ichabod Crane investigates a series of gruesome murders. (Sleepy Hollow, nr New York - Sleepy Hollow)
Elise McKenna leaves school aged 14 to become an actress. (Somewhere In Time)
Alexander Hartdegen proposes to Emma, just before she is killed in a mugging. (The Time Machine)
8th February: Robert Angier visits Tesla in America. (USA - The Prestige)
10th February: Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry. (Monterey, California - The Day the Bubble Burst)
4th May: Arthur Lestrange, his son Richard Lestrange and niece Emmeline Lestrange set sail from Boston for San Francisco on the Northumberland; a shipwreck in the South Pacific will maroon the children, aged 8, on a beautiful island and Arthur will spend years searching for them. (Boston, Massachussetts - The Blue Lagoon)
31st December: George demonstrates a time machine to four of his friends, and steps into the future. (The Time Machine (1960))
International Diplomats and soldiers fend off attacks on the International Compound during the Boxer Revolution. (Peking, China - 55 Days at Peking)
Future Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams born. (Chariots of Fire)
Gigi. (Gigi)
Indiana Jones born. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
Satine, the beautiful courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, dies in Christian's arms. (Paris - Moulin Rouge)
Dorothy Gale returns to a ruined Oz with her pet chicken Billina and has adventures with copper mechanical man TikTok, another scarecrow with a pumpkin for a head named Jack, and a sofa with a mounted gump's head; she kills the Gnome King and restores Oz before returning back to Kansas. (Kansas - Return to Oz)
Elise McKenna moves to New York with her mother to further her acting career. (Somewhere In Time)
Dorothy Gale and her pet dog Toto are blown from Kansas to Oz, killing the Wicked Witch of the East and causing adventures with a brainless Scarecrow, gutless Lion and a heartless Tinman. (Kansas - The Wizard of Oz)
January: George arrives to dinner with his friends dishevelled, disoriented, hungry and from far into the future. (The Time Machine (1960))
14th February: Several girls from Appleyard College go missing on a picnic, at Hanging Rock. (Victoria, Australia - Picnic at Hanging Rock)
1st June: Future President Hoover caught in Boxer Rebellion. (China - The Day the Bubble Burst)
25th June: Lord Louis Mountbatten is born. (Windsor, England - The Devil's Brigade)
July: Confederate soldiers attempt to unite north and south with victories over the Spanish in Cuba and Caribbean and into Mexico. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
4th July: John Sims, future unemployed insurance accountant, is born to proud parents. (USA - The Crowd)
Sigmund Freud is kidnapped by two high-school students from the future. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Antonio Andolini, his wife and son Paolo are murdered, leaving their younger son Vito an orphan. (The Godfather: Part II)
A young boy named Vito Andolini arrives in Ellis Island and is quarinteened for smallpox soon after. (Ellis Island, New York - The Godfather: Part II)
Bill Miner, "The Gentleman Bandit", is released from San Quentin. (The Grey Fox)
7th January: Alfred Packer is paroled. (Colorado - The Legend of Alfred Packer)
22nd January: Queen Victoria dies. (Mrs. Brown)
22nd January: J.B. Books, famous shootist, rides into town. (Carson City, NE - The Shootist)
29th January: J.B. Books dies from gunshot wounds during a shoot-out. (Carson City, NE - The Shootist)
22nd April: President William McKinley enlists Navy Lt. Richard L. Perry to secretly infiltrate a gang of bank robbers in order to discover the identity of their ringleader who resides somewhere high in the ranks of the federal government. (Washington D.C. - This is My Affair)
7th May: Gary Cooper is born. (Helena, Montana - Marlene)
27th July: Rudy Vallee is born. (Island Point, Vermont - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees)
4th August: Louis Armstrong is born. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Saint Louis Blues )
Myra Langtry has lunch with Addison Sims of Seattle. (The Grifters)
After many rejections, Beatrix Potter has her book 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' picked up by publishers Frederick Warne & Company. (London - Miss Potter)
Town founded. (Perfection, Nevada - Tremors)
Wednesday 6th August: Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Flegenheimer) is born. (Bronx, New York - Portrait of a Mobster )
Clive Candy shoots a lion. (East Africa - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
The Smith family have themselves a merry little Christmas, despite having to leave St Louis. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
Alexander Hartdegen travels back in time 4 years to try to stop his fiancée’s murder. (The Time Machine)
Monday 16th March: Judge Roy Bean dies. (Langtry, Texas - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean)
Monday 6th April: Mickey Cochrane is born. (Bridgewater, Massachusetts - Cobb)
Sunday 19th April: Eliot Ness is born. (Chicago, Illinois - The Untouchables)
Friday 19th June: Lou Gehrig is born. (New York, New York - The Pride of the Yankees)
Thursday 22nd October: Tom Horn is hanged in Wyoming for the murder of Willie Nickell. (Wyoming - Tom Horn)
Old whaling station left abandoned. (Antarctica - Alien Vs. Predator)
San Diego discovered by Germans, and named after a whale's vagina. (Anchorman)
Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police. (Belgium - Evil Under the Sun)
J.M.Barrie writes Peter Pan. (Finding Neverland)
Clive Candy shoots a warthog. (Sudan - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Brooks Hatlin enters Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Thursday 16th June: Stephen Dedelus and Leopold and Molly Bloom experience a day of life and discovery, among other things. (Dublin, Ireland - Bloom)
Thursday 16th June: James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora. (Nora)
Monday 7th November: 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice' by Beatrix Potter is published. (London - Miss Potter)
December: Beatrix Potter accepts a marriage proposal from her publisher, Norman Warne, at her parents' Christmas party. (Miss Potter)
Clive Candy shoots a rhinoceros. (East Africa - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
David 'Noodles' Aaronson and Maximilian Bercowicz born. (New York - Once Upon a Time in America)
Future hotel porter Arthur Biehl is born. (Somewhere In Time)
Tuesday 20th June: Lillian Hellman is born. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Dash and Lilly )
July: Beatrix Potter's fiance and publisher Norman Warne dies suddenly while she is holidaying in The Lake District; Beatrix moves permanently to Hill Top Farm in The Lakes. (Miss Potter)