The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
28th October: Dracula flees to his homeland by sea; Van Helsing & the others try to head him off at the Borgo Pass by train. (Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Europe - Dracula)
31st October: Quincy Morris is killed in battle with the count's gypsies, Dracula dies by the hand of Mina Harker. (Transylvania - Dracula)
A slaughter house located near Greenwich closes down. It would be the site of the murder of a university student about a century later. (New York City - The Bone Collector)
A young British soldier is named a coward upon resigning his post, but fights on undercover to redeem himself. (Sudan - The Four Feathers)
Paula Schultz dies. (Texas - Kill Bill: Volume 2)
Clive Candy starts his service with the British army. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Stephen Banning comes out of his catatonia at the Engerfield Nursing Home for the Mentally Disordered, and sends for his son. He tells him that when he read from the Scroll of Life, he unintentionally brought back to life Kharis, the mummified high priest of Karnak. (England - The Mummy)
Sarah Bellows hangs herself in in the Pennhurst hospital (Pennhurst hospital, Mill Valley, Pennsylvania - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
Daniel Plainview finds silver in a mine. (There Will Be Blood)
Aliens leave Mor-Tax for their invasion on Earth, 40 years later. (War of the Worlds)
7th February: French writer Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for "J'Accuse," his newspaper editorial attacking the French army over the Dreyfus affair. (Dreyfus)
13th May: Thomas Edison sues American Mutoscope and Biograph Pictures, claiming that the studio has infringed on his patent for the Kinetograph movie camera . (Edison, the Man)
21st May: Armand Hammer is born. (Manhattan, New York - Chernobyl: The Final Warning)
8th July: Soapy Smith killed. (Skagway, Alaska - Klondike Fever)
8th December: Sarah Bellows is admitted to the Pennhurst hospital by her own family (Pennhurst hospital, Mill Valley, Pennsylvania - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
Madeleine Ernestine dies. (Bride of Frankenstein)
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)
American League Baseball begins. (Moneyball)
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)
The year on Bessie B.'s gravestone. (Rennie's Landing)
Helen O'Reilly born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Sarah Bellows's spirit writes a scary story for each of her family members, causing them to disappear (Mill Valley, Pennsylvania - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
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)
April: A tornado hits Kanzas sending Dorathy Gale to the Land of Oz for the first time where she meets many friends and kills both the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West. (Kansas - Return to Oz)
8th April: The Fantom robs a bank. (London, England - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
9th April: The London Post headline: "BRITAIN ACCUSES GERMAN ARMY OF BANK THEFT." (London, England - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
11th April: The Morning Leader headline: "GERMANY'S NEWEST WEAPON." (Sri Lanka - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
12th April: Globe & Traveler headline: "'NOT US!' SAYS GERMANY." This newspaper contains a typo claiming it is the 11th of April. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
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)
16th May: The Fantom blows up a zeppelin full of hydrogen gas. (Berlin, Germany - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
17th May: The London Post headline: "GERMANY ATTACKED!" (London, England - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
18th May: The Morning Leader headline: "BRITAIN DENIES ASSAULT ON BERLIN." (Sri Lanka - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
19th May: Globe & Traveler headline: "EUROPE ON BRINK OF WAR." (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
June: Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, and Tom Saywer join together in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to defeat The Fantom. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
2nd July: Mac Curby Bell dies. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)
13th August: Alfred Hitchcock is born. (Leytonstone, London, England - Hitchcock)
14th August: Alma Reville is born. (Nottinghamshire, England - Hitchcock)
October: Dorathy Gale escapes from an electro-shock therapy clinic in Cottonwood Falls, Kanzas during the night. She is swept away in a nearby river during a serious rain storm and wakes up back in Oz. There she meets new friends and defeats the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi. (Kanzas - Return to Oz)
31st December: George demonstrates a time machine to four of his friends, and steps into the future. (The Time Machine)
International Diplomats and soldiers fend off attacks on the International Compound during the Boxer Revolution. (Peking, China - 55 Days at Peking)
Frank Chapman says that people should count birds instead of counting them. (The Big Year)
Future Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams born. (Chariots of Fire)
A mummy is discovered by three Egyptologists: Englishmen John Bray and Sir Giles Dalrymple as well as French Professor Eugene Dubois. Assisting in the expedition is Professor Dubois' daughter, and Bray's fiancee, Annette. All the artifacts are brought back to London by the project's backer, American showman Alexander King, who plans to recoup his investment by staging luridly sensational public exhibits of the Egyptian treasures. Soon after arrival, the mummy revives and starts to kill various members of the expedition, while it becomes evident that sinister Adam Beecham, a wealthy arts patron whom members of the expedition meet on the ship returning to England, harbors a crucial revelation of the mummy's past and future. (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb)
Gigi. (Gigi)
Francis Ouimet sees Harry Vardon play golf. (Brookline, Massachusetts - The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Indiana Jones born. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
Borough Hall Highlands Incorporated. (Highlands, New Jersey - Jersey Girl)
Satine, the beautiful courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, dies in Christian's arms. (Paris - Moulin Rouge)
Dorothy Gale returns to a ruined Oz with her pet chicken Billina and has adventures with copper mechanical man TikTok, another scarecrow with a pumpkin for a head named Jack, and a sofa with a mounted gump's head; she kills the Gnome King and restores Oz before returning back to Kansas. (Kansas - Return to Oz)
Elise McKenna moves to New York with her mother to further her acting career. (Somewhere In Time)
Dorothy Gale and her pet dog Toto are blown from Kansas to Oz, killing the Wicked Witch of the East and causing adventures with a brainless Scarecrow, gutless Lion and a heartless Tinman. (Kansas - The Wizard of Oz)