The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Robinson Crusoe rescued. (Robinson Crusoe)
William III and Queen Mary hold a pig funeral - mourners included Dr Pea and Sir Nicholas Sheet-Lightning. (London - The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse)
John and Lizzy Proctor, plus several others, are convicted of witchcraft and put to death because of a babysitter scandal. (Salem Village, Mass - The Crucible)
4th May: Gulliver departs on his travels (Bristol - Gulliver's Travels)
23rd May: British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder . (London, England - Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl )
1st June: Asano Naganori of Ako, enraged by continued derogatory comments, attacks and injures Kiro Yoshinaka, the corrupt Kozuke-no-suke of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's shogunate; since violence of any kind is forbidden within the walls of Edo Castle, Asano is sentenced to commit seppuku that same day. (Edo Castle, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
13th December: In defiance of the Shogunate, 47 loyal Ako vassals led by Oishi, former Asano chamberlain, take revenge on Kiro Yoshinaka by attacking his residence and murdering him; in honorable fashion, they surrender themselves to Lord Hosokawa and await judgement. (Edo, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
3rd February: After 50 days in custody, the 47 Ronin are sentenced to commit seppuku for the murder of Kira Yoshinaka. (Lord Hosakawa's mansion, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
31st July: Daniel Defoe is put in the pillory as punishment for seditious libel. (Robinson Crusoe)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
Connor MacLeod and Duncan rescue a stagecoach from bandits, and Duncan meets Kate. (Kildare, Ireland - Highlander: Endgame)
Duncan kills Kate MacLeod. (Ireland - Highlander: Endgame)
A Predator gains a pistol while hunting in the Roanoke colony. (Predator 2)
Rob Roy escapes the defeat of the clans. (Scotland - Rob Roy)
Mr Forsythe puts a spell over the village. (Brigadoon - Brigadoon)
Pirate Jack Sparrow frees a governor's daughter in the hope of regaining the Black Pearl. (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
11th April: David Zeisberger is born. (Zauchental, Moravia, near Ostrava (Czech Republic) - The Moravian Massacre)
Captain Jack Sparrow is dragged to the depths of the sea along with his beloved ship, the Black Pearl, by the Kraken. (The Caribbean - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)
April: The poet Alexander Pope delivers the eulogy at Isaac Newton's funeral in Westminster Abbey. (London - The Da Vinci Code)
16th April: General Sir Henry Clinton is born. (Newfoundland, Canada - The Pursuit of Happiness)
23rd February: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of Europe's most prominent banking empire is born. (Frankfurt, Germany - Rothschilds, Die )
24th December: Benjamin Rush is born. (Byberry Township, Pennsylvania - Independence)
27th November: Robert Livingston is born. (Clermont, New York - 1776)
The Mission. (Argentina/Paraguay/Brazil - The Mission)
31st January: Gouverneur Morris is born. (A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation)
Casanova narrowly escapes execution. (Venice - Casanova)
4th August: George Washington becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry. (Fredericksburg, Virginia - National Treasure)
Start of the Seven Years War. (Barry Lyndon)
During the French and Indian War, the last of Mohicans tries to save Cora and Alice Munro from Hurons. (The Last of the Mohicans)
9th August: After battle, the winning French general agrees to allow the British leader, Col. Munro, to surrender the fort and march his English troops and settlers to another English fort. (Fort William Henry, upstate New York - The Last of the Mohicans)
10th August: Native American tribes allied with the French massacre British troops as they relocate to a new fort. (The Last of the Mohicans)
28th April: James Monroe is born. (Westmoreland County, Virginia - The Monroe Doctrine)
24th August: William Wilberforce born. (Great Britain - Amazing Grace)
Mr Earnshaw takes in an orphan boy, Heathcliff. (Wuthering Heights)
End of the Seven Years War, er, nine years later. Apparently. (Barry Lyndon)
A mysterious beast kills hundreds of people. (South-west France - Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Louis de Pointe du Lac born. (France - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
25th June: Serial-Murderer, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, returns to his beloved Paris where - after dousing himself in the distilled perfume of 13 virgins - he is loved, literally, into oblivion. (Paris, France - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer)
16th July: Father Junipero Serra founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego. (San Diego, California - Seven Cities of Gold)
7th April: William Wordsworth is born. (Lake District, England - Pandaemonium)
24th December: Barbara Ann Spooner, future wife of William Wilberforce, born. (England - Amazing Grace)
Catherine Beaufort Frankenstein dies giving birth to William. (Geneva, Switzerland - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
9th February: William Henry Harrison is born. (Virginia - Tecumseh)
12th August: Robert Southey is born. (Bristol, England - Pandaemonium)
24th May: John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress . (Rebels, The )
10th June: John Adams proposes a Continental Army. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rebels, The )
17th June: Battle of Bunker Hill begins. (Boston, Massachusetts - Valley Forge)
27th June: Continental Congress resolves that Major Gen Philip J. Schuyler travel to Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point to examine the troops, their supplies and their ability to navigate Lakes Champlain and George. (Alexander Hamilton)
At the gravesite of his mother, Victor Frankenstein vows to "put a stop" to death. (Geneva, Switzerland - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
3rd March: Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission. (La Fayette)
14th March: Alexander Hamilton receives his commission as Captain of a New York artillery company. (Alexander Hamilton)
29th March: General George Washington appoints Major General Israel Putnam commander of the troops in New York. (Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds, The )
29th April: General George Washington orders Brigadier General Nathanael Greene to take command of Long Island and set up defensive positions against a possible British attack on New York City. (The Scarlet Coat)
12th June: The Virginia Convention, unanimously adopts George Mason’s declaration of rights. (Williamsburg, Virginia - A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation)
29th June: Edward Rutledge expresses his reluctance to declare independence from Britain in a letter to the like-minded John Jay of New York . (1776)
4th July: Second Continental Congress formally adopts Declaration of Independence. (1776)
28th January: John Burgoyne submits an ill-fated plan to the British government to isolate New England from the other colonies. (Devil's Disciple, The )
13th June: Marquis de Lafayette arrives with the intent to serve as General George Washington’s second-in-command. (South Carolina - Jefferson in Paris )
6th August: General Nicholas Herkimer falls at the Battle of Oriskany. (Rome, New York - Drums Along the Mohawk )
The future guard of Wall is born. (Stardust)