The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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)
A British privateer raids Spanish ships with his queen's permission in 1585. (The Sea Hawk)
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)
Captain Archibald Fritton lands aboard Lord Pomfrey's ship and steals its valuables. Lord Pomfrey declares he will have his revenge, whether it takes two years, twenty years or 420 years. (The High Seas - St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)
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)
Pero Fernando de Quieros passes through the fogbank surrounding the island and lands on the "Beach of the Skull." He hears a roar. (South of the Tuamotu Archipelago - King Kong)
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)
The ships carrying John Smith and others land in Virginia. (Virginia - The New World)
McGinty's Irish Pub is established. (The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Johannes van Hoytl the younger is born. (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
13th April: Rebecca Rolfe, formerly Pocahontas, dies of an illness. (England - The New World)
23rd April: William Shakespeare dies, after having lived in Los Angeles for some time. (Los Angeles - L.A. Story)
23rd April: William Shakespeare dies. (The Number 23)
Mary McTarry is raped by the Campbells. (Casino Royale)
Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal. (Highlander)
A year in a French dictionary. (Taking Lives)
Connor MacLeod meets Duncan . (Glen Fruin, Scotland - Highlander: Endgame)
The earliest year that One-Eyed Willy could have started making tunnels. (Near Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
The latest year that One-Eyed Willy could have started making tunnels. (Near Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
Santa Claus The Fifteenth is born. (Arthur Christmas)
The year on a Boston Police uniform. (Boston, Massachusetts - The Town)
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)
Santa Claus The Thirteenth dies. (Arthur Christmas)
Father Laforgue, upon finding the Huron Nation decimated by scarlet fever, baptizes the remaining members, only to have the Iroquois defeat them in battle soon afterwards. (Quebec, New France - Black Robe)
Harvard University is founded. (Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Social Network)
Harvard University is not founded by John Harvard. (Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Social Network)
Southampton established. (Southampton, New York - Something Borrowed)