The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1996
Griff Tannen born. (Back to the Future Part II)
Behind Enemy Lines. (Behind Enemy Lines)
Air Force pilot Vic Deakins, plots to steal several nuclear bombs, Riley Hale tries to stop him. (Utah, United States) (Broken Arrow)
Mass-murderer Simon Phoenix is captured by John Spartan, and both are cryogenically frozen when hostages die in the capture. (Demolition Man)
Jackie dies. (The Departed)
Martin Blank attends his high-school reunion, is reunited with Debi Newberry, and foils his own murder for not joining an assassin's union. (Grosse Pointe Blank)
John Merchant, Descendant of the orginal maker of the puzzle box creates a method to defeat the cenobites; Angelique summons the cenobites in the hope of creating a more substantial portal to Hell. (Los Angeles) (Hellraiser: Bloodline)
The ozone layer is destroyed, a protection shield is installed; Connor MacLeod's wife Brenda dies of skin cancer. (World) (Highlander II: The Quickening)
Fletcher Reid cannot lie for 24 hours, because of his son Max's birthday wish. (Liar Liar)
Victor Melling, noted coach of Miss United States pageant contestants, clashes with his client and loses any future clients. (Miss Congeniality)
Ethan Hunt is framed as an IMF mole who killed his team. (Mission: Impossible)
Airline mogul Tom Mullen refuses to pay ransom on his son's kidnap. (Ransom)
Jeff and Lynn's daughter, Corbett, is born. (Saw III)
Todd born and immediately selected to be trained as a soldier. (Soldier)
Genetic superman Khan Noonien Singh and a group of his genetically-engineered followers leave Earth in SS Botany Bay. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Ex-Titanic passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, known for decades as Rose Dawson and, by her married name, Rose Calvert, dies on a ship in the north Atlantic. (Titanic)
Renton and friends enjoy and endure the highs and lows of crime, heroin and bedsits. (Scotland) (Trainspotting)
5 billion people wiped out by disease; James Cole arrives from 2035 to gather information about the virus. (Twelve Monkeys)
Veronica Guerin. (Veronica Guerin)
Renard spotted in Moscow. (Moscow) (The World is Not Enough)
March: Mr Newman's ex-girlfriend kills herself. (Dogma)
April: Holden MacNeil and Banky Edwards attend a comic convention, where Holden meets and falls for Alyssa Jones. (Chasing Amy)
May: Graboid worms reappear. (Mexico) (Tremors 2)
June: Ollie Trinke ruins his career at an auction of Will Smith memorabilia. (New York) (Jersey Girl)
Saturday 1st June: The Catholic religion's new multi-million dollar advertising blitz is launched, dubbed "Catholicism, WOW!" (New Jersey) (Dogma)
Sunday 2nd June: Bethany Sloane attends a service at St Stephen's Parish Church (McHenry, Il) (Dogma)
Monday 3rd June: Azrael and the Stygian Triplets kill Mrs Reynolds and take over her house for their base of operations. (Dogma)
Tuesday 4th June: Loki and Bartleby leave Wisconsin via bus for New Jersey; Bethany Sloane is visited by Metatron, the voice of the one true god. (Dogma)
Wednesday 5th June: Bethany meets her two prophets - Jay and Silent Bob - and Rufus, the 13th Apostle. (Dogma)
Thursday 6th June: Bethany, Rufus, Jay and Silent Bob meet the muse Serendipity, and the group are attacked by the Golgothan shit demon; they then meet Loki and Bartleby on a train and a fight ensues. (Dogma)
Friday 7th June: Loki and Bartleby attempt to enter St Michael's Church, but God stops them; Bethany discovers that she is pregnant. (Dogma)
Friday 14th June: Ella Fitzgerald dies. (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California) (Soul of the Game)
Tuesday 25th June: Independence Day opens in cinemas. (Jersey Girl)
Tuesday 2nd July: Aliens prepare for attack. (Independence Day)
Thursday 4th July: Aliens destroy human cities; humans fight back. (Independence Day)
Friday 5th July: Aliens vanquished by humans including airplane-flying US president. (Independence Day)
Friday 26th July: Phenomenon. (Phenomenon)
Sunday 20th October: Nicholas Van Orton's 48th birthday. (The Game)
November: James Cole kidnaps Dr Kathryn Reilly. (Baltimore) (Twelve Monkeys)
December: Jeffrey Goines and the Army of the Twelve Monkeys free animals from the zoo. (Twelve Monkeys)
Thursday 12th December: James Cole witnesses his future self shot in an airport, and Dr Peters releases a virus that kills 5 billion people. (Philadelphia, PA) (Twelve Monkeys)