The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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)
Mircea the Monk dies. (Romania - Dracula 2000)
Radu the Handsome dies. (Dracula 2000)
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)
Wihnea becomes prince. (Wallachia, Romania - Dracula 2000)
11th June: King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon. (Anne of the Thousand Days )
Miwnea the Bad dies. (Dracula 2000)
Spanish Armada doesn't happen. (Billy Madison)
Prince Henry of France meets Danielle De Barbarac and recovers the Mona Lisa after it was briefly stolen by gypsies. (France - Ever After)
31st October: Martin Luther nails the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation to the door of Castle Church. (Wittenberg, Germany - Luther)
1st January: Connor MacLeod born. (Glenfinnan, Scotland - Highlander)
Hernán Cortés gives Francisco Vásquez de Coronado a golden cross. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
A rebellion against General Katana on planet Zeist is quashed. (Highlander II: The Quickening)
Santa Claus the Thirteenth is born. (Arthur Christmas)
16th November: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro defeats Incan emperor Atahuallpa. (Cajamarca, Peru - The Day After Tomorrow)
11th September: Elizabeth, future queen of England, born. (England - Elizabeth)
Mircea II dies. (Romania - Dracula 2000)
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)
A year in a French dictionary. (Taking Lives)
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)
Francisco de Orellana disappears in the Amazon looking for the Crystal Skull. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
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)
November: Fransisco de Oreallana goes missing searching for the mythical El Dorado (Amazon River - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
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)
A year in a French dictionary. (Taking Lives)
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)
A year in a French dictionary next to the word "Garum." (Taking Lives)
8th February: Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded from treason. (England - Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
8th August: Spanish Armada. (English Channel - Billy Madison)