The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Jacques Cartier sails to North America. (Ever After)
6th July: Sir Thomas More executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as leader of the Church of England. (London, England - A Man For All Seasons)
The MacLeod clan face off against the Fraser clan. (Loch Shiel, Scotland - Highlander)
19th May: Anne Boleyn and her brother George are executed after being tried for adultery and incest, following the miscarriage her (and Henry VIII's) baby. (London - The Other Boleyn Girl)
Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of executed Anne, dies. (Hever Castle, England - The Other Boleyn Girl)
Connor MacLeod meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, who sounds a bit Scottish. (Highlander)
26th June: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by Spanish rivals . (Lima, Peru - Royal Hunt of the Sun, The )
13th March: Takeda Harunobu advances on Suwa in Shinano with an army of 20,000 men. Yamamoto Kansuke negotiates peace terms with Lord Suwa Yorishige. Suwa will be assassinated within the month on Takeda's orders. (Shinano, Japan - Samurai Banners)
14th January: Takeda Harunobu's army attacks Suwa; the Suwa army sallies from Takashima Castle to Fumonji Temple. (Shinano, Japan - Samurai Banners)
3rd March: Princess Yu, daughter of the slain Lord Suwa Yorishige, presents Lord Takeda Harunobu with a son. The new prince unites the noble bloodlines of Takeda and Suwa. (Kai, Japan - Samurai Banners)
15th March: Takeda Harunobu attacks Toishi Castle in Murakami's domain in Shinano; however, aided by the rugged terrain and expecting Murakami reinforcements, the castle commander, Kasahara Kiyoshige, resists strongly. (Shinano, Japan - Samurai Banners)
28th January: King Henry VIII dies. (Lady Jane)
29th September: Miguel de Cervantes is born. (Madrid, Spain - Cervantes)
9th October: Miguel de Cervantes is baptized. (Alcala de Heraves, Spain - Cervantes)
17th February: The Takeda and Murakami armies clash at Uedagahara once again. (Uedagahara, Japan - Samurai Banners)
20th February: Lord Takeda Harunobu and Yamamoto Kansuke shave their heads and become monks; it took Kansuke three years to persuade Takeda to take holy orders; Takeda agrees in order to be reborn an even more powerful general; he takes the new name of Takeda Shingen. (Kai, Japan - Samurai Banners)
25th May: Lady Jane Grey marries Lord Guilford Dudley. (England - Lady Jane)
July: Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen, for just over a week. (Lady Jane)
12th February: Lady Jane Grey beheaded. (London - Lady Jane)
Connor's mother is burned at the stake, and in his failed attempt to save her he kills Jacob Kell and Father Rieney. (Glencoe & Glenfinnan, Scotland - Highlander: Endgame)
24th February: The army of Uesgi Kenshin marches on Shinano. Takeda Shige's army camps a Unnodaira in Shinano; Takeda's 15,000 men face down 6,000 Uesugi troops; for three days, neither side moves. (Shinano, Japan - Samurai Banners)
17th November: Elizabeth I crowned Queen. (England - Elizabeth)
17th November: Mary I dies. (England - Elizabeth)
3rd November: Construction of Kaizu Castle at Kawanakajima is finally complete; Young Lord Katsuyori, age 14, is installed as head of the province. (Kawanakajima, Japan - Samurai Banners)
4th August: Uesugi marches from Kasuga Castle with an army of 13,000 men destined for Kawanakajima. (Kawanakajima, Japan - Samurai Banners)
7th August: With Fuurinkazan banners in hand, the Takeda army departs from Kofucha with 18,000 men oraganized into 18 troops. (Kofucha, Japan - Samurai Banners)
September: At the Battle of Kawanakajima, Takeda army strategist, Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki, finds himself outwitted by Uesugi Shingen when Takeda troops are drawn out of their strategically superior position in Kaizu Castle. His vanguard surrounded, Kansuke is forced to defend himself on open ground. Blinded in one eye, he is finally brought down by a Uesugi spearsman. (Kawanakajima, Japan - Samurai Banners)
26th February: Christopher Marlowe is baptized. (Canterbury, England - Shakespeare in Love)
23rd April: William Shakespeare is born. (The Number 23)
24th July: Mary, Queen of Scots deposed. (Lochleven Castle, Scotland - Mary, Queen of Scots)
August: Dr Gerald Finney time-travels briefly from 1971 via self-hypnosis. (Venice - Somewhere In Time)
24th August: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (Paris, France - Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages)
17th June: Sir Francis Drake claims California for Queen Elizabeth I of England. (north of present-day San Francisco, California - Elizabeth)
Veronica Franco becomes a courtesan . (Venice - Dangerous Beauty)
Seven samurai defend a villiage from bandits. (Japan - Seven Samurai)
8th February: Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded from treason. (England - Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Heather MacLeod dies. (Highlander)
Over 100 people vanish - the only clue is "Croatoan" carved on a tree, presumed to mean that they had moved to Croatoan Island some 50 miles away, despite no trace of them being found there. (Roanoke Island - Mindhunters)
Shakespeare falls in love with Viola De Lesseps. (Shakespeare in Love)
18th May: Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. (Shakespeare in Love)
30th May: Playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a brawl over a bar tab on this day. (Shakespeare in Love)
June: William Shakespeare begins work on his great play "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daugther". (London, England - Shakespeare in Love)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
5th November: Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (London - V for Vendetta)
5th November: Gunpower Plot is foiled. (London, Eng. - V for Vendetta)
31st January: Guy Fawkes is hung, drawn and quartered. (London - V for Vendetta)
15th July: The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born. (Leiden, Netherlands - Rembrandt)
23rd April: William Shakespeare dies. (The Number 23)
Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal. (Highlander)
Connor MacLeod meets Duncan . (Glen Fruin, Scotland - Highlander: Endgame)
Connor MacLeod takes Duncan through The Game. (Ravenna, Italy - Highlander: Endgame)
One-eyed Willy trapped in a cave and draws a treasure map. (nr Astoria - The Goonies)
12th April: Galileo is convicted of heresy for holding the heretical belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. (Galileo)
8th January: Galileo Galilei dies. (Arcetri, Tuscany, Italy - Galileo)
King Charles I is condemned to death. (To Kill A King)
John Pymm dies. (Cromwell)
The Devil 'touched' 34 nuns who then had orgies with goats. (Ursuline Convent, Loudun, France - Exorcist: The Beginning)
30th January: King Charles I is beheaded for treason. (London, England - To Kill A King)
Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked. (Robinson Crusoe)
Charles II restored to the English throne after 11 years of Puritan rule. (Restoration)