The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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)
The Presidential election of 1824. (United States - Swing Vote)
1st January: James K. Polk marries Sarah Childress. (Murfreesboro, Tennessee - The Monroe Doctrine)
Alex O'Connor born. (The Mummy Returns)
General Custer builds a house. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)
15th July: Reuben Cogburn is born. (True Grit (2010))
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)
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)
8th March: Frank Ross is born. (True Grit)
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 )
24th December: Jacob Marley dies. (London - A Christmas Carol)
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)
20th June: It has pleased Almighty God to release from his sufferings his most excellent and gracious Sovereign King William IV. His Majesty expired in Windsor Castle at 12 minutes past 2 o'clock A.M. this day. The Princess Alexandrina Victoria is awakened at Kensington Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury and informed that she is now Queen of England. (England - Victoria the Great)
21st June: Proclamation Day. From the balcony of St. James Palace, the 18-year-old Royal Princess Victoria is officially proclaimed Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Defender of the Faith. Queen Victoria formally acknowledges her desire to retain Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and his Ministry at the Head of Affairs. (London England - Victoria the Great)
28th June: Coronation Day. Queen Victoria is crowned the Undoubted Queen of the Realm in Westminster Abbey. (London England - Victoria the Great)
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)
25th October: Georges Bizet is born. (Paris, France - The Doors)
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 )
2nd July: Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, kill two crewmembers and seize control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba. (Amistad)