The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Napoleon invades Austria, and is then kidnapped and taken to the future. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Capt Jack Aubrey leads the HMS Surprise against French warship the Acheron. (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
Count Cyril Bezuhkov dies. (War and Peace)
2nd April: Hans Christian Andersen is born. (Odensk, Denmark - Hans Christian Andersen )
Fanny Price aligns herself with neighbour Henry Crawford. (Mansfield Park)
Don Diego de la Vega becomes Zorro. (The Mask of Zorro)
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth. (Persuasion)
30th May: Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel. (Houston: The Legend of Texas)
27th July: Meriwether Lewis shoots a Blackfoot Indian. (The Far Horizons)
19th January: Confederate General Robert E. Lee is born. (Westmoreland County, Virginia - Gods and Generals)
21st February: Martin Van Buren marries Hannah Hoes. (Catskill, New York - Amistad)
25th March: Slave Trade Act passed in Parliament. Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire. (Great Britain. - Amazing Grace)
13th June: Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed in Aaron Burr’s treason trial. (Jefferson in Paris )
7th July: Capt Hornblower diverts Napoleon's Spanish allies by sponsoring a Central American revolution, and hooks up with Wellington's sister. (Captain Horatio Hornblower)
24th November: Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea, also known by his English name, Joseph Brant, dies at his home. (Burlington, Ontario - Divided Loyalties )
29th December: Andrew Johnson is born. (Raleigh, North Carolina - Tennessee Johnson)
12th February: Abraham Lincoln is born. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1st June: Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins to publish The Friend. (Rime of the Ancient Mariner )
24th December: Kit Carson is born. (Richmond, Kentucky - Kit Carson)
Beethoven kidnapped mid-performance. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
21st June: Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Smith. (Louisville, Kentucky - Rebellion)
The Brothers Grimm are hired to kill a witch. (Karlstad, Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
Judah P. Benjamin, future supporter of Confederacy, is born. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
26th February: Robert Livingston dies. (1776)
Two werewolf sisters roam Canada. (Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning)
Anne Elliot vies with her brother-in-law's sister for Captain Wentworth's affections. (Persuasion)
14th February: Edmond Dantes returns, only to be imprisoned for sympathising with Napoleon. (France - The Count of Monte Cristo)
18th June: Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington. (Waterloo, Belgium - Napoleon)
Shaka becomes King of the Zulus. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
21st April: Charlotte Bronte is born. (Brontë )
3rd November: Jubal Early is born. (Franklin County, Virginia - Gettysburg)
18th February: Lewis Armistead is born. (New Bern, North Carolina - Gettysburg)
22nd March: Braxton Bragg is born. (Warrenton, North Carolina - Journey to Shiloh)
The Bell Family begins to be haunted by a spirit/poltergeist. (Tennessee - An American Haunting)
30th July: Emily Bronte is born. (Thornton. Yorkshire, England - Devotion)
25th August: Allan Pinkerton is born. (Glasgow, Scotland - American Outlaws)
17th January: Anne Bronte is born (Yorkshire, England - Devotion)
29th January: King George III dies. (Windsor Castle, Berkshire, United Kingdom - The Madness of King George)
26th September: Daniel Boone dies. (Defiance, Missouri - Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer )
Helen Burns, future friend of Jane Eyre, born. (England - Jane Eyre)
Don Diego de la Vega, aka Zorro, is imprisoned for 20 years as Spain concedes California to Santa Anna. (The Mask of Zorro)
8th January: Confederate General James Longstreet is born. (Edgefield, South Carolina - Gettysburg)
19th February: Union General Francis Preston Blair, Jr., is born. (Lexington, Kentucky - Gods and Generals)
4th October: Rutherford B. Hayes is born. (Delaware, Ohio - Buffalo Bill)
20th March: Ned Buntline is born. (Stamford, New York - Buffalo Bill)
The first European settlers land on the shores of Port Natal. (Port Natal, South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
1st January: James K. Polk marries Sarah Childress. (Murfreesboro, Tennessee - The Monroe Doctrine)
Alex O'Connor born. (The Mummy Returns)
5th February: Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers. (Moravia, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
26th March: Ludwig van Beethoven dies, and among his belongings are found the letters to the "Immortal Beloved", her real identity never been discovered. (Vienna, Austria - Immortal Beloved)
12th April: Shaka Zulu and the European settlers eradicate the remaining forces of the Ndwandwe tribe. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
17th May: Andrew Johnson marries Eliza McCardle. (Warrenton, Tennessee - The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd)
Shaka Zulu is assassinated by his half-brother and general. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
27th February: Edmond Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If. (France - The Count of Monte Cristo)
5th October: Chester A. Arthur is born. (North Fairfield, Vermont - Cattle King)
20th October: Mr. Edward Rochester marries Bertha Antoinetta, not knowing that she is mentally unstable. The marriage was arranged by their families. (England - Jane Eyre)
20th October: Mr Edward Rochester marries Bertha Antoinetta, not knowing that she is mentally unstable. The marriage was arranged by their families. (England - Jane Eyre)
25th April: The play "The Lion of the West" opens. (New York City - The Alamo)
4th July: James Monroe dies of a heart failure. (New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
Ben Gate's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather takes Charles Carrol to see Andrew Jackson. (Washington, DC - National Treasure)