The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1861
Money is printed, later to be held for an emergency by Doc Brown. (Back to the Future Part III)
Ada Munrioe comes to Cold Mountain, where she meets and falls in love with Inman. (Cold Mountain, NC) (Cold Mountain)
Christine Daae's father, Gustav, dies, and she goes to the Opera Populaire, an orphan, to study to be a ballerina. (Paris) (The Phantom of the Opera)
January: Most of the American South believe the election of Republican president Abraham Lincoln would terminate their ownership of black slaves, and so Jefferson Davies of Mississippi is elected president of a provisional government. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
10th January: William Seward accepts President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become Secretary of State. (The Monroe Doctrine)
12th April: American Civil War begins; Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler at the Twelve Oaks party. (Gone With The Wind)
12th July: Wild Bill Hickok begins to establish his reputation as a gunfighter after he coolly shoots three men during a shootout. (Nebraska) (Wild Bill)
December: The March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - give away their Christmas feast to the poor. (Concord, Mass) (Little Women)