The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Clara Clayton born. (New Jersey - Back to the Future Part III)
The Sioux army attacks the wagon train, heading west, of the future Sheriff Bart and his family, but lets them go. (Blazing Saddles)
Charles Foster Kane born. (Citizen Kane)
Tristan Thorn is born when his father Dunstan goes through the wall and his an affair with a witch's maiden slave. (Wall - Stardust)
10th February: Millard Fillmore marries Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. (Albany, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
Alice journeys to Wonderland, and then through a looking-glass. (Alice in Wonderland)
22nd May: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born. (Edinburgh, Scotland - Finding Neverland)
3rd December: Gambler John Oakhurst runs out of luck and takes his own life in a snow drift. (Outside of Poker Flat, California - The Outcasts of Poker Flat)
9th May: James Barrie is born. (Scotland - Finding Neverland)
13th August: Annie Oakley is born. (Patterson Township, Ohio - Annie Oakley)
21st November: Tom Horn is born. (Memphis, Missouri - Tom Horn)
Money is printed, later to be held for an emergency by Doc Brown. (Back to the Future Part III)
Ada Munrioe comes to Cold Mountain, where she meets and falls in love with Inman. (Cold Mountain, NC - Cold Mountain)
Christine Daae's father, Gustav, dies, and she goes to the Opera Populaire, an orphan, to study to be a ballerina. (Paris - The Phantom of the Opera)
January: Most of the American South believe the election of Republican president Abraham Lincoln would terminate their ownership of black slaves, and so Jefferson Davies of Mississippi is elected president of a provisional government. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
10th January: William Seward accepts President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become Secretary of State. (The Monroe Doctrine)
12th April: American Civil War begins; Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler at the Twelve Oaks party. (Gone With The Wind)
12th July: Wild Bill Hickok begins to establish his reputation as a gunfighter after he coolly shoots three men during a shootout. (Nebraska - Wild Bill)
December: The March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - give away their Christmas feast to the poor. (Concord, Mass - Little Women)
Abraham Lincoln politely declines an offer by the King of Siam to send elephants to assist the Union against the Confederacy; the King of Siam falls for widowed British teacher Anna Leonowens. (Anna and the King)
6th February: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry. (Northern Tennessee - How the West Was Won)
8th February: Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island. (North Carolina - Gods and Generals)
14th March: Battle of New Bern, North Carolina (New Bern, North Carolina - Gods and Generals)
24th April: Union Admiral David Farragut leads a flotilla past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River. (south of New Orleans, Louisiana - Hearts in Bondage )
12th June: Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart begins his ride around the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign, after being sent on a reconnaissance of Union positions by Robert E. Lee. (Mosby's Marauders)
24th July: Martin Van Buren dies of heart failure. (Kinderhook, New York - Amistad)
20th August: Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" is published. (Gangs of New York)
17th September: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac fight to a standstill along a creek on the bloodiest day in American history. (Antietam, Maryland - Glory)
17th September: Battle of Antietam: Union officer Capt. Gideon loses both of his sons on this day. Legend says Gideon killed over 100 men himself. (nr Sharpsburg, Md - Seraphim Falls)
11th October: Confederate cavalry leader General J.E.B. Stuart loots Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on a daring raid in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam. (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - Gettysburg)
Abraham Lincoln is kidnapped and taken to the future. (Washington - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Amsterdam Vallon kills Butcher Bill. (New York - Gangs of New York)
The Federal Army faces the army of North Virginia at Little Round Top. (Gettysburg)
Men delivering gold are killed by a futuristic machine gun; their cargo mysteriously disappears. (Timecop)
25th January: General Ambrose Burnside is removed as commander of the Army of the Potomac. (Gods and Generals)
2nd May: Stonewall Jackson flanks General Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville. (Gods and Generals)
10th May: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson dies. (Gods and Generals)
24th May: Henry Plummer is elected sheriff of Bannack, Montana. (Bannack, Montana - Montana Territory )
28th May: The 54th Massachusetts leaves Boston. (Glory)
13th July: Anger over the Union draft triggers massive protests that explode into four days of violent riots. (New York City - Gangs of New York)
26th July: Sam Houston dies. (Texas - The Alamo)
4th December: A National Plebiscite is held to determine if the Mexican Nation shall adopt a monarchial form of government and make tender of the Crown to His Serene Highness Archduke Maximillian von Habsburg - with the assistance of persuasive federal troops, the measure passes with 99% of the vote. (Mexico - Juarez)
14th December: President Lincoln announces a grant of amnesty for Mrs. Emilie Todd Helm, Mary Lincoln's half sister and the widow of a Confederate general. (Lincoln)
The siege of Petersburg, where Inman becomes a deserter. (Petersburg - Cold Mountain)
Hercule Poirot born. (Belgium - Death on the Nile)
9th February: Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon. (Monroe, Michigan - Hard Ride, The )
1st March: President Lincoln nominates Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general. (Lincoln)
9th April: General Ulysses S Grant surrendered to General Robert E Lee. (just outside Washington D.C. - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
11th May: Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded. (Richmond, Virginia - Gettysburg)
18th June: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is wounded. (Petersburg, Virginia - Gettysburg)
6th July: Confederate General Jubal Early's troops cross the Potomac River and capture Hagerstown, Maryland. (Hagerstown, Maryland - Gettysburg)
17th July: John Bell Hood takes command of the Army of Tennessee. (Gettysburg)
1st August: Union General Ulysses S. Grant appoints General Philip Sheridan commander of the Army of the Shenandoah. (Abraham Lincoln)
5th August: David Farragut leads his flotilla through the Confederate defenses at Mobile, Alabama, to seal one of the last major Southern ports. (Mobile, Alabama - Hearts in Bondage )
28th August: Union General Alfred Terry is promoted from Brigadier General to Major General of the United State Volunteers . (The Legend of Custer)
Lt John Dunbar is transferred to the western frontier at his own request, to see it before it's gone. (Dances with Wolves)
Blondie, Angel Eyes and Tuco, search for buried gold during the US civil war. (The Southern United States - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
The Reno Brothers return home from the Civil War where they are greeted by their younger brother Clint who sings a little rock and roll. (Texas - Love Me Tender)
The last ironclad ship to run the Union blockade. (Richmond, Virginia - Sahara)
Gideon, a commander in the US Army, orders the burning down of a deserted officer, Carver, resulting in the death of his wife and child. (Seraphim Falls)