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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 )
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)
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)
7th April: Down-on-his-luck farmer, Jabez Stone, sells his soul to the Devil (aka, Mr. Scratch) for a fortune in Hessian gold. (New Hampshire, USA - The Devil and Daniel Webster)
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)
24th December: Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by several ghosts in order to change his ways. (A Christmas Carol)
25th December: Ebeneezer Scrooge changes his ways and finally gives a pay-raise to his employee Bob Cratchit. (London - A Christmas Carol)
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)
James "Wolverine" Logan extracts his bone claws for the first time killing his biological father, because he murdered his foster father. He runs away with brother Victor to the United States afterwards. (Canada - X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill. (New York - Gangs of New York)
Oscar Wilde born. (Velvet Goldmine)
16th February: Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill. (Five Points, New York - Gangs of New York)
5th September: Jesse James is born. (Clay County, Missouri - The Assassination of Jesse James)
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)
Hancock rescues Mary from their burning house. (USA - Hancock)
John Hancock drags Mary Embrey from flames after a house-fire. (Hancock)
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 (1951))
1st May: Calamity Jane is born. (Princeton, Missouri - Calamity Jane)
A fraternity known as BKE begins. (Accepted)
30th March: Vincent van Gogh is born. (Netherlands - Lust for Life)
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)
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)