The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
23rd April: John Paul Jones burns Whitehall. (London - John Paul Jones)
18th June: 15,000 British troops under General Sir Henry Clinton evacuate Philadelphia. (Yorktown)
17th September: Mohawk Indian chief and British Loyalist leader Joseph Brant leads a force of 150 Iroquois Indians and 300 British Loyalists under the command of Captain William Caldwell in a surprise attack on the area of German Flats, New York. (Herkimer, New York - Divided Loyalties )
1st June: Benedict Arnold is court-martialled. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor)
Lestat becomes a vampire. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
29th September: British spy John André is court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. (Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor)
17th January: Benjamin Martin defeats the British by running into enemy fire armed with a flag; people follow him, and luckily some have guns. (Cowpens (modern-day South Carolina) - The Patriot)
25th April: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis retreats after being defeated at Guilford Courthouse by 4,500 Continental Army soldiers and militia under the command of American Major General Nathanael Greene. (Wilmington, North Carolina - The Patriot)
5th December: Martin Van Buren is born. (Kinderhook, New York - Amistad)
Connor MacLeod stabbed over 8 times in a duel - and survives. (boston common - Highlander)
Lament Configuration (black puzzle box) was commissioned from Philip Lemarchand by the Duc de l'Isle (Hellraiser: Bloodline)
28th February: John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States. (John Wesley)
26th June: Caesar Rodney dies. (Kent County, Delaware - 1776)
The legend of the Blair Witch. (The Blair Witch Project)
16th February: James Monroe marries Elizabeth Kortright. (New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
24th February: Wilhelm Grimm is born. (Hanau, Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
13th June: Winfield Scott is born. (Petersburg, Virginia - Lincoln)
The Headless Horseman starts attacking the locals. (Sleepy Hollow - Sleepy Hollow)
July: Shaka Zulu is born. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
The vampire Marius turns Lestat into an undead. (an island in the Mediterranean - The Queen of the Damned)
July: King George III begins to suffer mental illness. (The Madness of King George)
Gotham City is founded. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
The French Revolution; the King swaps places with the piss-boy to save himself, and a young woman prepares to exchange her virginity to save her father. (Paris - History of the World: Part I)
Claudia born. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
Marie Antoinette and the royal family leave Versailles in hopes of saving themselves from the Revolution. (story of the young Marie Antoinette). (Versailles, France - Marie Antoinette)
14th June: William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the HMS Bounty seven weeks before, reach Timor in the East Indies after travelling nearly 4,000 miles in a small open boat . (Bounty, The )
14th July: Bastille falls. (Paris, France - Carry On Don't Lose Your Head)
Louis de Pointe du Lac becomes a vampire, at the hands - or teeth - of Lestat. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
9th May: Francis Hopkinson dies of a seizure. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1776)
5th December: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. (Amadeus)
Sir Percy Blakeney disguised as The Scarlet Pimpernel rescues several families of the French aristocracy from the guillotine. (Paris, France - The Scarlet Pimpernel)
July: Connor MacLeod sentenced to execution, but replaced at the last moment. (Highlander III: The Sorcerer)
4th August: British General John Burgoyne dies. (United Kingdom - Devil's Disciple, The )
Victor Frankenstein goes to the university to study medicine, where he makes his monster. (Ingolstadt, Germany - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
2nd March: Samuel Houston, the first president of the independent Republic of Texas, is born. (Rockbridge County, Virginia - The Alamo)
13th July: Jean Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. . (Marat/Sade )
17th July: Charlotte Corday is executed by guillotine in Paris. (Paris - Marat/Sade )
23rd July: Roger Sherman dies of typhoid. (New Haven, Connecticut - 1776)
2nd December: Samuel Taylor Coleridge enlists in the Light Dragoons. (Rime of the Ancient Mariner )
Victor Frankenstein dies. (Arctic Circle - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
27th July: Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. (Scaramouche)
Louis de Pointe du Lac turns young Claudia into a vampire. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
The guard beginnings guarding the wall. (Wall - Stardust)
31st January: Alexander Hamilton resign his post as the Secretary of the Treasury. (Alexander Hamilton)
2nd November: James K. Polk is born. (Mecklenburg County, North Carolina - The Monroe Doctrine)
Jacob Grimm comes home with beans instead of medicine for his sick sister, Lotte. (Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
July: Napoleon fights the Battle of Castaglione. (Time Bandits)
The Bennet family try to offload their daughters. (Pride & Prejudice)
30th May: William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner. (England - Amazing Grace)
26th July: John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson. (London, England - Amistad)
21st December: William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy move into Dove Cottage. (Westmoreland, England - Pandaemonium)
7th January: Millard Fillmore is born. (Locke Township, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
Mr Lockwood visits landlord Heathcliff for the first time. (Wuthering Heights)
Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey leads the HMS surprise to victory against the French privateer Acheron. (Atlantic Ocean - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
22nd May: Martha Washington dies. (Mount Vernon, Virginia - Alexander Hamilton)
Edwards and Hunt set head west to try and beat Lewis and Clark to the pacific coast (Almost Heroes)
11th July: Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. (Weehawken, New Jersey - Alexander Hamilton)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
23rd November: Franklin Pierce is born. (Hillsborough, New Hampshire - Great Moment, The )
2nd December: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. (Paris, France - War and Peace)