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An African-American slave named Jonathan is born. (Django Unchained)
Fitzpatrick is born. (Phantasm)
Archibald Witwicky is born. (Transformers)
4th October: Rutherford B. Hayes is born. (Delaware, Ohio - Buffalo Bill)
Paula Schultz is born. (Texas - Kill Bill: Volume 2)
Jean Valjean, now mayor, sees Javert again. He meets Fantine. He promises to take care of her daughter Cosette after she dies. (Montreuil, France - Les Miserables)
20th March: Ned Buntline is born. (Stamford, New York - Buffalo Bill)
The first European settlers land on the shores of Port Natal. (Port Natal, South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
The Presidential election of 1824. (United States - Swing Vote)
1st January: James K. Polk marries Sarah Childress. (Murfreesboro, Tennessee - The Monroe Doctrine)
7th November: Shaka cedes Port Natal to the European settlers, giving them full rights to the ivory, rivers, mines and articles contained therein. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
Alex O'Connor born. (The Mummy Returns)
General Custer builds a house. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)
15th July: Reuben Cogburn is born. (True Grit)
An African-American slave named Adney is born. (Django Unchained)
5th February: Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers. (Moravia, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
Abraham Lincoln's attempt to kill Jack Barts backfires when he discovers that he is a vampire. Henry Sturgess saves him and trains him to become a vampire hunter. (Pigeon Creek, Indiana - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
An African-American slave named Nelley is born. (Django Unchained)
Sarah Smooth dies. (The Roost)
26th March: Ludwig van Beethoven dies, and among his belongings are found the letters to the "Immortal Beloved", her real identity never been discovered. (Vienna, Austria - Immortal Beloved)
12th April: Shaka Zulu and the European settlers eradicate the remaining forces of the Ndwandwe tribe. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
17th May: Andrew Johnson marries Eliza McCardle. (Warrenton, Tennessee - The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd)
An African-American slave named Addison is born. (Django Unchained)
Shaka Zulu is assassinated by his half-brother and general. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
28th October: Ellen Robillard (later Ellen O'Hara) born. (Gone with the Wind)
An African-American slave named Lucy is born. (Django Unchained)
27th February: Edmond Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If. (France - The Count of Monte Cristo)
5th October: Chester A. Arthur is born. (North Fairfield, Vermont - Cattle King)
20th October: Mr. Edward Rochester marries Bertha Antoinetta, not knowing that she is mentally unstable. The marriage was arranged by their families. (England - Jane Eyre)
20th October: Mr Edward Rochester marries Bertha Antoinetta, not knowing that she is mentally unstable. The marriage was arranged by their families. (England - Jane Eyre)
28th May: Mac Curby Bell is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)
African-American slaves named Broomhilda Von Shaft and Lewis are born. (Django Unchained)
Charles Adare tries to make good fortune. (Sydney, Australia - Under Capricorn)
25th April: The play "The Lion of the West" opens. (New York City - The Alamo)
4th July: James Monroe dies of a heart failure. (New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
A revolution takes place. (Paris, France - Les Miserables)
Ben Gate's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather takes Charles Carrol to see Andrew Jackson. (Washington, DC - National Treasure)
5th June: Students in Paris prepare for war against the monarchy (Paris, France - Les Miserables)
14th November: Charles Carroll dies en route to see President Andrew Jackson. (Baltimore, Maryland - National Treasure)
20th August: Benjamin Harrison is born. (North Bend, Ohio - Stars and Stripes Forever)
Helen Burns, Jane Eyre's best childhood friend, dies from TB leaving Jane devastated. (England - Jane Eyre)
24th March: John Wesley Powell is born. (Palmyra, New York - Ten Who Dared)
14th August: Richard Henry Dana begins his two-year stint as a seaman. (Boston, Massachusetts - Two Years Before the Mast)
19th November: Franklin Pierce marries Jane Means Appleton. (Amherst, New Hampshire - The Great Moment)
Louise Ricks is born. (Offspring)
Orphan Oliver Twist meets Fagan and his gang. (Oliver)
15th February: Alexander Stewart Webb is born. (New York City - Gettysburg)
8th March: Frank Ross is born. (True Grit)
29th June: William Travis prepares for war with Mexico. (The Alamo)
The town of Virgil, Texas is incorporated. (Virgil, Texas - True Stories)
23rd February: Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie head a stand-off between Texans and Tejanos. (The Alamo)
6th March: The siege of the Alamo ends. (The Alamo)
21st April: General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna's army at the Battle of San Jacinto. (The Alamo)
28th June: James Madison dies. (Montpelier estate, Virginia - Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States)
24th December: Jacob Marley dies. (London - A Christmas Carol)
Abraham Lincoln starts working for shopkeeper Joshua Speed. (Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
Victoria crowned Queen of England. (Mrs. Brown)
18th March: Grover Cleveland is born. (Caldwell, New Jersey - The Monroe Doctrine)
17th June: Union Colonel Strong Vincent is born. (Waterford, Pennsylvania - Gettysburg)
20th June: It has pleased Almighty God to release from his sufferings his most excellent and gracious Sovereign King William IV. His Majesty expired in Windsor Castle at 12 minutes past 2 o'clock A.M. this day. The Princess Alexandrina Victoria is awakened at Kensington Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury and informed that she is now Queen of England. (England - Victoria the Great)