The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Movie history events from 1848
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)