The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Sunday 7th July: Marian Paroo discovers that Harold Hill is a con-man. (River City, Iowa - The Music Man)
Sunday 14th July: Woody Guthrie is born. (Okemah, Oklahoma - Bound for Glory)
Saturday 10th August: Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry. (London, England - The Hours)
October: The Dolphin Hotel opens, and the first death in room 1408 occurs, when a man slits his own throat then tries to restitch it. (New York - 1408)
Mondoshawans return to Earth at the pyramids, to recover the four elements. (Egypt - The Fifth Element)
Beatrix Potter marries local solicitor and former childhood friend William Heelis. (The Lake District - Miss Potter)
Karen Blixen moves to Kenya. (Kenya - Out of Africa)
Thursday 9th January: Richard M Nixon is born. (Yorba Linda, CA - Nixon)
Friday 14th February: Jimmy Hoffa is born. (Brazil, Indiana - Hoffa)
Tuesday 4th March: Woodrow Wilson takes office as the 28th President of the United States. (Washington, DC - Wilson)
Sunday 9th March: Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel, "The Voyage Out". (The Hours)
Saturday 22nd March: Jack London writes letters to H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill, asking how much they are paid for their writing. (Jack London)
Monday 14th July: Future U.S. President Gerald R. Ford (born Leslie L. King, Jr.) is born. (Omaha, Nebraska - Commission, The )
Thursday 25th September: Charlie Chaplin signs with Keystone. (Chaplin)
Mondoshawan come to Earth to take away the five elements stones as they know World War One is about to start. (Egypt - The Fifth Element)
Gandhi returns home. (India - Gandhi)
Vito and Carmella Corleone move in. (Little Italy, New York - The Godfather: Part II)
Clive Candy shoots an Indian elephant. (Central Province - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Chaim Pearlgut stars in the Yiddish revue Dybbyck Shmybbyck, I Said 'More Ham'. (Broadway - Waiting for Guffman)
Saturday 7th February: Charlie Chaplin makes his first appearance in his popular "Little Tramp" role, in Kid Auto Races at Venice. (Chaplin)
Saturday 14th March: Lee Petty is born. (Randleman, North Carolina - 43: The Richard Petty Story )
Saturday 9th May: Woodrow Wilson proclaims the first Mother’s Day holiday. (Wilson)
Saturday 13th June: Kaiser Wilhelm concludes meeting with Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (Konopischt, Bohemia (today the Czech Republic) - Houdini)
Sunday 28th June: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated. (Sarajevo, Bosnia - Bride of the Wind )
Thursday 9th July: Babe Ruth is purchased by the Boston Red Sox from Baltimore for more than $25,000. (The Babe)
Monday 20th July: Madame Henriette Caillaux, whose trial for the murder of Gaston Calmette, editor of the newspaper Le Figaro, begins. (Paris, France - Caillaux Case, The )
Wednesday 14th October: Alfred, Tristan and Samuel Ludlow leave home for Canada to join the war in Europe "to defend an England they've never seen." (Rocky Mountains of Montana, USA - Legends of the Fall)
Stella, later to be Stella Baines, mother to Lorraine and grandmother to Marty McFly, is born. (Back to the Future)
The hunt for a blacked-up Abraham Lincoln is chronicled in D.W.Griffith's silent film The Hunt For Dishonest Abe. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Young soldiers who have joined the ANZACs are brutally slaughtered fighting the Turkish army in Gallipoli. (Western Australia - Gallipoli)
Captain Alec Henderson dies in battle. (France - Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Edward Sheridan Lionheart born. (Theatre of Blood)
Friday 29th January: German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads his company in the daring capture of four French block-houses, the structures used on the front to house artillery positions. (France - Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The )
Wednesday 3rd February: Samuel Ludlow writes a letter to his fiancee Susannah describing his experiences in the war. (Legends of the Fall)
Saturday 20th March: Tristan Ludlow writes his father and Susannah about how he is being discharged from the British Army and how Alfred is bringing Samuel's heart home. (Legends of the Fall)
Sunday 25th April: Allies begin invasion of Gallipoli. (The Dardanelles - Gallipoli)
Friday 7th May: British ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine. (off southern coast of Ireland - The Sinking of the Lusitania)
Tuesday 7th September: Alfred Ludlow writes to his mother about how he has found his place in the world describing his business opportunities in Helena, Montana. (Helena, Montana - Legends of the Fall)
Saturday 18th December: Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt. (Washington, D.C. - Wilson)
Tuesday 21st December: Sir William Robertson is appointed chief of the Imperial General Staff. (Oh! What a Lovely War)
Santino 'Sonny' Corleone born. (The Godfather)
Captain Elliott Spenser (Pinhead) suffers a mental breakdown after the Battle of Flanders (Hellraiser)
Actors Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander take a stand against the infamous El Guapo. (Santa Poco, Mexico - Three Amigos)
Saturday 8th January: Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula. (Turkey - Gallipoli)
Friday 28th January: President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. (Wilson)
Thursday 10th February: Lindley Garrison resigns as U.S. Secretary of War. (Wilson)
Thursday 9th March: Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader attacks the border town. (Columbus, New Mexico - Pancho Villa)
Monday 24th April: Easter Rebellion begins. (Dublin, Ireland - Michael Collins)
Saturday 3rd June: US President Woodrow Wilson signs National Defense Act. (Wilson)
Friday 9th June: Robert McNamara is born. (San Francisco, California - Thirteen Days)
Thursday 27th July: German officials execute Captain Charles Fryatt, the former commander of the Great Eastern Railway steamship Brussels, after a German court martial found him guilty of making an attack on a German submarine. (Bruges, Belgium - Murder of Captain Fryatt, The )
Sunday 17th September: Manfred von Richthofen shoots down his first plane. (Red Baron, The )
Tuesday 21st November: Emperor Franz Josef dies. (Austria - Mayerling)
Wednesday 22nd November: Jack London dies from kidney failure. (Glen Ellen, California - Jack London)
Sunday 26th November: Thomas Edward Lawrence, a junior member of the British government’s Arab Bureau during World War I, publishes a detailed report analyzing the revolt led by the Arab leader Sherif Hussein against the Ottoman Empire. (Lawrence of Arabia)
Monday 4th December: W. Somerset Maugham departs on a voyage to Pago Pago. (The Razor's Edge)
Christine Daae dies. (Paris - The Phantom of the Opera)
Friday 12th January: Monsieur Audel killed in battle. (Chocolat)
Monday 26th February: President Woodrow Wilson learns of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the event of a war between the U.S. and Germany. (Wilson)
Thursday 15th March: Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne of Russia. (Nicholas and Alexandra)