The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1776
At the gravesite of his mother, Victor Frankenstein vows to "put a stop" to death. (Geneva, Switzerland) (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
3rd March: Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission. (La Fayette)
14th March: Alexander Hamilton receives his commission as Captain of a New York artillery company. (Alexander Hamilton)
29th March: General George Washington appoints Major General Israel Putnam commander of the troops in New York. (Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds, The )
29th April: General George Washington orders Brigadier General Nathanael Greene to take command of Long Island and set up defensive positions against a possible British attack on New York City. (The Scarlet Coat)
12th June: The Virginia Convention, unanimously adopts George Mason’s declaration of rights. (Williamsburg, Virginia) (A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation)
29th June: Edward Rutledge expresses his reluctance to declare independence from Britain in a letter to the like-minded John Jay of New York . (1776)
4th July: Second Continental Congress formally adopts Declaration of Independence. (1776)