The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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)
Josaphina Hoffman is born. (The Gorgon)
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 (1948))
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 (1948))
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)
Josaphina Steiner is born. (The Gorgon)
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)
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)
Madeleine Ernestine is born. (Bride of Frankenstein)
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)
21st April: A shipwreck takes place when there is fog. (The Fog)
27th June: Helen Keller is born. (Tuscumbia, Alabama - The Miracle Worker)
5th October: Tom Chaney murders Frank Ross. His daughter Mattie wants revenge. (Fort Smith, Arkansas - True Grit)
9th December: Father Patrick Malone meets with Blake for the first time. Blake stays in the shadows so Malone cannot see his face. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
11th December: Blake wants to relocate the entire colony. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
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)
Gretchen Bouman is born. (The Gorgon)
Edgar Rice Burroughs hears that his uncle John Carter has died and inherits his estate, where he reads the manuscript of his adventure on Barsoom. A Thern follows him but is killed by John Carter, who gets back the medallion and returns to Barsoom. (John Carter)
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)
20th April: Six conspirators, including Malone, plan the death of Blake and his comrades. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
21st April: A fog aids the conspirators in the murder of Blake and his comrades. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
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 )
Randall Bragg murders Sherriff Jack Bell and his two deputies, who came to his ranch to arrest two of his workers. (New Mexico Territory - Appaloosa)
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)
22nd May: The Reverend Fortnum Fritton finds the first clue to finding the lost treasure of his ancestors. (St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)
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)
2nd August: Jennet Humphrye gives birth to Nathaniel, who will later be adopted by his aunt Alice Drablow since his mother is suspected to be mentally unstable. (Crythin Gifford, England - The Woman in Black)
3rd September: Jolyen Forsyte throws a dance to announce the engagement of his granddaughter June to struggling architect, Philip Bosinney. Jolyen Forsyte II, June's father and a family outcast, spends the evening at a nearby corner pub. (London, England - The Forsyte Saga)
Kings Park Psychiatric Center is established. (Kings Park, NY - Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet)
Haddonfield is founded. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween 2 (2009))
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)
2nd August: Nathaniel Drablow's first birthday. A birthday card from his real mother has been sent to him. (Crythin Gifford, England - The Woman in Black)
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)