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Movie history events from 1789
Gotham City is founded. (Gotham City, USA) (Batman)
The French Revolution; the King swaps places with the piss-boy to save himself, and a young woman prepares to exchange her virginity to save her father. (Paris) (History of the World: Part I)
Claudia born. (New Orleans, Louisiana) (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
Marie Antoinette and the royal family leave Versailles in hopes of saving themselves from the Revolution. (story of the young Marie Antoinette). (Versailles, France) (Marie Antoinette)
14th June: William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the HMS Bounty seven weeks before, reach Timor in the East Indies after travelling nearly 4,000 miles in a small open boat . (Bounty, The )
14th July: Bastille falls. (Paris, France) (Carry On Don't Lose Your Head)