The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1840
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)