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14th November: Charles Carroll dies en route to see President Andrew Jackson. (Baltimore, Maryland - National Treasure)
20th August: Benjamin Harrison is born. (North Bend, Ohio - Stars and Stripes Forever )
Helen Burns, Jane Eyre's best childhood friend, dies from TB leaving Jane devastated. (England - Jane Eyre)
24th March: John Wesley Powell is born. (Palmyra, New York - Ten Who Dared )
14th August: Richard Henry Dana begins his two-year stint as a seaman. (Boston, Massachusetts - Two Years Before the Mast )
19th November: Franklin Pierce marries Jane Means Appleton. (Amherst, New Hampshire - Great Moment, The )
Orphan Oliver Twist meets Fagan and his gang. (Oliver)
15th February: Alexander Stewart Webb is born. (New York City - Gettysburg)
29th June: William Travis prepares for war with Mexico. (The Alamo)
23rd February: Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie head a stand-off between Texans and Tejanos. (The Alamo)
6th March: The siege of the Alamo ends. (The Alamo)
21st April: General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna's army at the Battle of San Jacinto. (The Alamo)
28th June: James Madison dies. (Montpelier estate, Virginia - Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States )
Victoria crowned Queen of England. (Mrs. Brown)
18th March: Grover Cleveland is born. (Caldwell, New Jersey - The Monroe Doctrine)
17th June: Union Colonel Strong Vincent is born. (Waterford, Pennsylvania - Gettysburg)
The Count of Monte Cristo arrives in a lavish balloon. (Paris - The Count of Monte Cristo)
Count Orlok arrives in the area and takes aim on his real estate agent's wife. (Bremen - Nosferatu)
12th January: After his Mormon bank fails in the Panic of 1837, Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community. (September Dawn)
21st April: John Muir is born. (Dunbar, Scotland - Guardian of the Wilderness )
26th August: Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Thomas Carlyle. (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
A mutiny occurs on a slave ship heading to the north-east of America. (Amistad)
5th March: Charlotte Bronte writes to the Reverend Henry Nussey, declining marriage. (Brontë )
5th December: Union General George Armstrong Custer is born. (Harrison County, Ohio - They Died with Their Boots On )
Captain John Boyd investigates rumours of cannibalism at a remote fort. (Ravenous)
24th February: Former President John Quincy Adams begins to argue the Amistad case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Washington, D.C. - Amistad)
Alejandro Murrieta becomes the new Zorro as Don Rafael Montero plots to exploit Californian peasants. (The Mask of Zorro)
10th May: James Gordon Bennett Jr is born. (New York City - Stanley and Livingstone)
8th April: Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born. (Monroe, Michigan - Custer of the West )
4th November: Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd. (Springfield, Illinois - Young Mr. Lincoln )
10th January: Frank James is born. (Clay County, Missouri - The Assassination of Jesse James)
29th January: William McKinley is born. (Niles, Ohio - Rough Riders)
19th May: Nicholas and Joanna Van Ryn, powerful landowners, invite Miranda Wells, an ambitious farmer's daughter and distant relative, to live at their mansion on the Dragonwyck estate to act as a companion to their young daughter Katrine. (Hudson Valley, New York - Dragonwyck)
27th June: Joseph and Hyrum Smith are murdered when an anti-Mormon mob breaks into a jail where they are being held. (Carthage, Illinois - September Dawn)
Dr Dolittle spoke to some animals. (Dr. Dolittle)
Albus Dumbledore born. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Sam Houston is dissuaded from establishing Texas as a republic by cattle baron Devereaux Burke. (Texas - Lone Star)
The shop where Tristan Thorn will later work is established. (Wall - Stardust)
Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill. (New York - Gangs of New York)
Oscar Wilde born. (Velvet Goldmine)
24th January: Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek. (East of San Francisco, California - Sutter's Gold)
21st February: John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke. (Amistad)
22nd August: Ulysses S. Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent. (St. Louis, Missouri - Strange Glory)
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
16th May: The ship Land o'Lakes out of Buffalo, NY, bound for Milwalkee encounters a four-bell force gale, strikes a reef and flounders; all hands are lost, including Capt. Joshua Stuart and sixty immigrants from the Old World. (Lake Michigan, USA - Thunder Rock)
15th June: James K. Polk dies. (Nashville - The Monroe Doctrine)
Huck Finn has adventures. (The Adventures of Huck Finn)
Hill Valley is founded. (California - Back to the Future Part III)
Alejandro de la Vega saves California's statehood and wins back his wife Elena from French Count Armand. (California - The Legend of Zorro)
9th July: Zachary Taylor dies of cholera morbus. (Washington, DC - Rebellion)
5th August: Guy de Maupassant is born. (Dieppe, France - Guy de Maupassant)
Dr Samuel A. Cartwright writes "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race", in which he describes Drapetomania as a prevalent but curable condition in runaway slaves. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Alice, of Wonderland fame, born. (Alice in Wonderland)
1st May: Calamity Jane is born. (Princeton, Missouri - Calamity Jane)
8th July: Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. (Japan - Bushido Blade, The )
25th July: California Rangers kill Joaquin Murrieta. (Joaquin Murrieta)
20th October: Arthur Rimbaud is born. (Charleville, France - Total Eclipse)
Sherlock Holmes born. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Christine Daae born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
An eight year-old Oscar Wilde announces his intention to become a pop idol. (Velvet Goldmine)