The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Jacob Grimm comes home with beans instead of medicine for his sick sister, Lotte. (Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
Connor MacLeod begins living on Hudson Street under the name Adrian Montagu. He would continue to live here until at least 1985 under the names Jaques Lefebret, Alfred Nicholson, Rupert Wallingford and Russell Nash. (New York City, New York - Highlander)
9th March: At 10pm, Napoleone di Buonaparte weds Joséphine de Beauharnais in a rushed ceremony. He was in a hurry. He was off two days later to conquer France. (2nd Arrondissement, Paris, France - Napoleon)
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)
Free property rights of horse and carriage. (Good Will Hunting)
October: The Headless Horseman (The ghost of a Hessian Mercenary) begins haunting Sleepy Hollow New York. Constable Ichabod Crane is sent to investigate. (Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S.A. - Sleepy Hollow)
21st December: William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy move into Dove Cottage. (Westmoreland, England - Pandaemonium)
Average children wish list increases between this year and 2007. (Fred Claus)
A hale storm happens. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
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)
3rd May: Larten Crepsley is turned into a vampire after having his heart broken. (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)
Edwards and Hunt set head west to try and beat Lewis and Clark to the pacific coast (Almost Heroes)
The first year in the Time Continuim. (Timecop)
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)
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 )
21st October: Lord Nelson is shot in the spine, from the French flagship Redoubtable, surviving long enough to learn that he has led the British Fleet to a magnificent victory against Napoleon. (Off Cape Trafalgar - Lady Hamilton)
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)
The earliest date estimated to be when "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun" was painted. (Red Dragon)
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)
The latest year estimated to be when "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" was painted. (Red Dragon)
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)
20th June: With small hope for success of the Allies against Napoleon's drive, English securities fall to the lowest level on record. Spurred by the probable closure of the London Stock Exchange, banker Nathan Rothschild risks his fortune to single-handedly sustain the British economy until last minute news (via carrier pigeon) of Napoleon's defeat by Wellington at Waterloo turns the market around. (London, England - The House of Rothschild)
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)