The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1899
A plague killed an entire village near what would be the archaeological dig site of a church fifty years later. (Kenya) (Exorcist: The Beginning)
Henry Jones Jr born, later to be nicknamed Indiana. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
Allan Quatermain leads Captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer, Dorian Gray, vampiress Mina Harker, invisible man Rodney Skinner and Dr Jekyll/My Hyde against The Fantom. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen formed, lead by Alan Quatermain. (England) (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
A poet, Christian, falls for a beautiful courtesan, Satine, and sings some Elton John songs. (Moulin Rouge)
New York City newsboys go on strike against Henry Pulitzer due to a $0.10 per 100 paper raise. (New York City) (Newsies)
Newsboys win strike against Joseph Pullitzer (New York City) (Newsies)
Ichabod Crane investigates a series of gruesome murders. (Sleepy Hollow, nr New York) (Sleepy Hollow)
Elise McKenna leaves school aged 14 to become an actress. (Somewhere In Time)
Alexander Hartdegen proposes to Emma, just before she is killed in a mugging. (The Time Machine)
8th February: Robert Angier visits Tesla in America. (USA) (The Prestige)
10th February: Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry. (Monterey, California) (The Day the Bubble Burst)
4th May: Arthur Lestrange, his son Richard Lestrange and niece Emmeline Lestrange set sail from Boston for San Francisco on the Northumberland; a shipwreck in the South Pacific will maroon the children, aged 8, on a beautiful island and Arthur will spend years searching for them. (Boston, Massachussetts) (The Blue Lagoon)
31st December: George demonstrates a time machine to four of his friends, and steps into the future. (The Time Machine (1960))