The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Sherlock Holmes stops Lord Blackwood from killing the entire parliament (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)
July: First Sherlock Holmes short story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. (London - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
22nd August: Oscar "Happy" Felsch is born. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Eight Men Out)
24th October: Professor Moriarty seeks out Dr. Watson in hopes of enlisting his aid in stopping Sherlock Holmes' incessant persecution. (London, England - The Seven Percent Solution)
Amylu Kern is born. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master II)
29th April: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his tombstone. (corleone sicily - The Godfather)
12th August: Ray Schalk is born. (Harvel, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
17th August: Mae West is born. (Brooklyn, New York - Marlene)
7th December: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his children's conversation. (The Godfather: Part II)
A Vatican researcher found a letter mentioning the buried church in Kenya. A team came to excavate it. Everyone disappeared. (Vatican City - Exorcist: The Beginning)
Villagers defeat members of British cantonment at cricket in bid to avoid paying unfair agrarian taxes known as 'Lagaan'. (Champaner, a village in India - Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India)
9th March: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Aurora, Missouri - Eight Men Out)
26th April: Anita Loos is born. (Mt. Shasta, California - The Audrey Hepburn Story)
1st May: John Phillip Sousa's band debuts on Opening Day at the World's Fair in Chicago. (Chicago, Illinois - Stars and Stripes Forever )
7th June: Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - Gandhi)
Alec Henderson is born. (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Zeke Kern dies. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master II)
This is to dispute that Rose was born in 1895. It's said by the creator (James Cameron) that she's 17 years old in the film, HOWEVER, Titanic sank in the early half of the year. She could have been preparing for her wedding after her 18th birthday, which had ample time to occur in 1912, making her birth year 1894. (Titanic)
26th April: Rudolf Hess is born. (Alexandria, Egypt - Wild Geese II )
11th May: After having received a letter with a death threat, a frightened Lloyd Brandon is murdered in the streets of London by Gabriel Mateo, a gaucho flute player out to avenge the murder of his father. From his hiding place in the foliage, Mateo hurls a Chilean bolas, which first strangles young Brandon then smashes his skull. Brandon's body is discovered by his solicitor, Jerrold Hunter, who is detained and questioned by Scotland Yard Inspector Bristol until Sherlock Holmes convinces Bristol to release him. (London, England - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
13th May: Evil mastermind, Professor Moriarty, shaves off his beard in order to disguise himself. Moriarty fools Dr. Watson and Sir Ronald Ramsgate by impersonating a policeman and gains entry to the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. His plan to steal the jewels is foiled at the last moment by his archnemesis Sherlock Holmes. (London, England - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
27th May: Dashiell Hammett is born. (St. Mary's County, Maryland - Julia)
13th October: Charles "Swede" Risberg is born. (San Francisco, California - Eight Men Out)
The Christian Reform Act outlaws any religion in America not based on Christianity. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Some people carry on. (The Khyber Pass - Carry On Up the Khyber)
Charles Foster Kane begins his newspaper career. (Citizen Kane)
Eleanor Rigby is born. (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Louis Lumiere develops and markets a commercially-successful motion picture camera, inventing 'The Movies'. (France - Ragtime)
Rose Dewitt Bukater is born. (Titanic)
1st January: J. Edgar Hoover is born. (Washington, DC - Hoover)
6th February: George Herman "Babe" Ruth is born. (Baltimore, Maryland - The Babe)
6th April: Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. (Oscar Wilde )
19th August: John Wesley Hardin is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon. (El Paso, Texas - The Lawless Breed)
7th September: Captain Witwicky finds something mysterious underneath a lot of ice. Designated 'Project Iceman', the artifact is the Allspark. (Transformers)
28th December: L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station) premiers. People in the audience are overwhelmed by the moving train and believe that they are in danger. Georges Melies witnesses this and wishes to be a filmmaker. (Paris, France - 1895)
St Michael's Church is constructed. (New Jersey - Dogma)
John Kinsella born. (North Dakota - Field of Dreams)
26th May: Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia. (Moscow - Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna )
5th July: Bill Doolin escapes from jail. (Oklahoma - Cimarron Kid, The )
25th August: Bill Doolin is killed by a posse. (Lawson, Oklahoma - Cimarron Kid, The )
Bram Stoker wrote the novel 'Dracula' which, according to Hannibal King, chronicles some of Dracula's adventures. (Blade: Trinity)
Carmella (later to become Corleone) born. (The Godfather: Part II)
Basil of Baker Street defeats Ratigan, saving the Queen. (London - The Great Mouse Detective)
Karl Rupert Kronen born. (Munich - Hellboy)
Captain Witwicky and his crew reach the Arctic Shelf discovering the Allspark (Arctic Shelf - Transformers)
26th May: Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is first offered for sale. (London, England - Vampire Secrets)
22nd June: All the people of Great Britain rejoice in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Her Majesty's procession pauses outside St. Paul's Cathedral to acknowledge the outpouring of affection from her people. (London England - Victoria the Great)
25th July: Jack London leaves for the Klondike to join the gold rush. (Jack London)
3rd September: Daniel Nicholson alleged to have died - later proved to be a lie. (Philadelphia, PA - The Village)
A slaughter house located near Greenwich closes down. It would be the site of the murder of a university student about a century later. (New York City - The Bone Collector)
A young British soldier is named a coward upon resigning his post, but fights on undercover to redeem himself. (Sudan - The Four Feathers)
Clive Candy starts his service with the British army. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Daniel Plainview finds silver in a mine. (There Will Be Blood)
Aliens leave Mor-Tax for their invasion on Earth, 40 years later. (War of the Worlds)
7th February: French writer Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for "J'Accuse," his newspaper editorial attacking the French army over the Dreyfus affair. (Dreyfus)
13th May: Thomas Edison sues American Mutoscope and Biograph Pictures, claiming that the studio has infringed on his patent for the Kinetograph movie camera . (Edison, the Man)
21st May: Armand Hammer is born. (Manhattan, New York - Chernobyl: The Final Warning)
8th July: Soapy Smith killed. (Skagway, Alaska - Klondike Fever)
A plague killed an entire village near what would be the archaeological dig site of a church fifty years later. (Kenya - Exorcist: The Beginning)
Henry Jones Jr born, later to be nicknamed Indiana. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)