The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
King Hrothgar celebrates his new mead hall, Heorod. The voice disturbs the monster Grendel who comes to the hall and kills the Danes. Beowulf hears of the monster and sails to Denmark to kill Grendel. (Denmark - Beowulf)
Mary Magdelene smeared as a prostitute. (The Da Vinci Code)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
he House of Flying Daggers rises to oppose the governing Tang dynasty. (China - House of Flying Daggers)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
The last Neanderthal tribe dies out as one Arab and twelve Viking warriors kill the Queen and War Chief. (The 13th Warrior)
The Emperor, of the Tang dynasty, returns home to find his own family rebelling against him. (China - Curse of the Golden Flower)
Arthur gathers knights for a quest for the Holy Grail. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry founded. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Pai Mei, head of the White Lotus Clan, slaughters 60 Shaolin monks. (China - Kill Bill: Volume 2)
Pai-Mei nods to a passing Shaolin Monk, but the monk does not nod back, so demands his neck. This is refused, so he massacres the 60 monks in the temple. The legend of the five-point palm exploding heart technique begins. (Kill Bill: Volume 2)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
15th August: At the Battle of Lumphanan, King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by Malcolm Canmore, whose father, King Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth 17 years earlier. (Macbeth)
Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, El Cid, stopped the invasion of Spain by the Moslem Moors under El-Saladin by rallying the Spanish armies to fight, even though he died in the last battle. (Valencia, Spain - El Cid)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
13th January: Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. (National Treasure)
King Henry II plans a reunion to name his successor. (The Lion in Winter)
Balian of Ibelin arrives after losing his family and faith. (Jerusalem - Kingdom of Heaven)
Robin of Locksley is chained up in a dungeon with Maid Marian's brother, Peter. (Jerusalem - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
Balian helps King Baldwin IV defend the city between the Second and Third Crusades. (Jerusalem - Kingdom of Heaven)
Robin Hood, with Azeem, returns from the Crusades to find that his father has been murdered; Robin escapes to Sherwood Forest and becomes the leader of a group of exiled villagers . (Nottingham, England - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
Genghis Khan, roaming the hills, is kidnapped. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
18th August: Genghis Khan dies. (Genghis Khan)
William Wallace's family killed in a battle with the English. (Scotland - Braveheart)
William Wallace marries Murron, briefly. (Scotland - Braveheart)
Ashley J Williams arrives from the future to combat the Army of Darkness. (Army of Darkness)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
William Wallace executed at The Tower of London. (London - Braveheart)
13th October: The Knights Templar declared heretic by the Catholic Church. (The Da Vinci Code)
Piers Gaveston, lover and favourite of Edward II, is executed. (Edward II)
Robert The Bruce leads the Scots against the English to win their freedom. (Braveheart)
Edward II imprisoned by his wife and her supporters in Berkeley Castle and presumably executed in secret there. (Berkeley Castle, England - Edward II)
Brother William of Baskerville and his young aide Adso investigate a string of murders in a remote abbey. (North Italy - The Name of the Rose)
Several bungling American archeologists briefly appear from the future. (France - Timeline)
The Black Plague; Torquemada begins his Grand Inquisition. (History of the World: Part I)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
25th October: Henry V fights the Battle of Agincourt. (Agincourt - Henry V)
Vladislaus Valerious born. (Transylvania - Van Helsing)
Joan of Arc kidnapped by Bill & Ted while praying. (Orleans, France - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
30th May: Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. (Normandy - Joan of Arc)
Vladislaus Valerious killed at the hand of his friend, Van Helsing; Vladislaus makes a pact with Satan and returns as Dracula. (Van Helsing)
14th February: The Duke of Clarence is drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine. (England - Richard III)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
June/July: Richard III proclaims himself King of England following the murder of the Princes in the Tower. (London, England - Richard III)
22nd August: King Richard III is killed after losing his horse at the battle of Bosworth Field. (Bosworth Field, England - Richard III)
Prince Vlad halts the Muslim Turk invasion of Europe; the defeated Turks send word of the Prince's death to his wife, Elizabeth, who commits suicide. (Transylvania - Bram Stoker's Dracula)
The Church tells Prince Vlad that because Elizabeth commited suicide, she will be condemned to Hell. Outraged, Vlad renounces Christ & makes a pact with Satan. In so doing, he becomes Nosferatu. (Transylvania - Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's attempted beheading - after 45 strikes he becomes the ghost Nearly Headless Nick. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
12th October: Land sighted from the Pinta – looks a bit American. (1492: Conquest of Paradise)
9th January: Christopher Columbus sees three "mermaids"--in reality manatees--and describes them as "not half as beautiful as they are painted." (Dominican Republic - 1492: Conquest of Paradise)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
20th May: Christopher Columbus dies. (Valladolid, Spain - Christopher Columbus: The Discovery)
11th June: King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon. (Anne of the Thousand Days )
Prince Henry of France meets Danielle De Barbarac and recovers the Mona Lisa after it was briefly stolen by gypsies. (France - Ever After)
1st January: Connor MacLeod born. (Glenfinnan, Scotland - Highlander)
A rebellion against General Katana on planet Zeist is quashed. (Highlander II: The Quickening)
11th September: Elizabeth, future queen of England, born. (England - Elizabeth)