The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
January: George arrives to dinner with his friends dishevelled, disoriented, hungry and from far into the future. (The Time Machine)
9th February: When her advisors threaten to declare her insane, Queen Victoria reminds them that she has reigned for 62 years and 234 days. (Scotland - Victoria and Abdul)
14th February: Several girls from Appleyard College go missing on a picnic, at Hanging Rock. (Victoria, Australia - Picnic at Hanging Rock)
14th May: The Olympics. (Paris, France - Life of Pi)
1st June: Future President Hoover caught in Boxer Rebellion. (China - The Day the Bubble Burst)
25th June: Lord Louis Mountbatten is born. (Windsor, England - The Devil's Brigade)
July: Confederate soldiers attempt to unite north and south with victories over the Spanish in Cuba and Caribbean and into Mexico. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
4th July: John Sims, future unemployed insurance accountant, is born to proud parents. (USA - The Crowd)
September: Chris McCandless’ abandoned car is identified by highway patrol. (Lake Mead, Arizona - Into the Wild)
8th September: A storm kills 6,000 people. (Galveston, Texas - All About Steve)
8th September: The ill-fated Joseph Carmichael is christened. (The Changeling)
Sigmund Freud is kidnapped by two high-school students from the future. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Alferd Packer is released from incarceration. (Cannibal! The Musical)
Antonio Andolini, his wife and son Paolo are murdered, leaving their younger son Vito an orphan. (The Godfather: Part II)
A young boy named Vito Andolini arrives in Ellis Island and is quarinteened for smallpox soon after. (Ellis Island, New York - The Godfather: Part II)
Bill Miner, "The Gentleman Bandit", is released from San Quentin. (The Grey Fox)
The hottest resort in Santa Carla is built on the fault. (Santa Carla, California - The Lost Boys)
7th January: Alfred Packer is paroled. (Colorado - The Legend of Alfred Packer)
22nd January: Queen Victoria dies. (Mrs. Brown)
22nd January: J.B. Books, famous shootist, rides into town. (Carson City, NE - The Shootist)
29th January: J.B. Books dies from gunshot wounds during a shoot-out. (Carson City, NE - The Shootist)
22nd April: President William McKinley enlists Navy Lt. Richard L. Perry to secretly infiltrate a gang of bank robbers in order to discover the identity of their ringleader who resides somewhere high in the ranks of the federal government. (Washington D.C. - This is My Affair)
7th May: Gary Cooper is born. (Helena, Montana - Marlene)
20th June: Edward Cullen born. (Twilight)
27th July: Rudy Vallee is born. (Island Point, Vermont - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees)
Santa Claus The Nineteenth is born. (Arthur Christmas)
Myra Langtry has lunch with Addison Sims of Seattle. (The Grifters)
Cyrus Rooney creates the first primitive thinking machine out of the brain of a pig. (John Dies at the End)
After many rejections, Beatrix Potter has her book 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' picked up by publishers Frederick Warne & Company. (London - Miss Potter)
Andre Toulon creates his puppets (Cario Eygypt - Retro Puppet Master)
Daniel Plainview finds oil! (There Will Be Blood)
Somebody tries to get a jump on the real-estate boom. (Beverly Hills, CA - Timecop)
Town founded. (Perfection, Nevada - Tremors)
Tuesday 8th July: Gwendolyn B. Bennett is born. (Giddings, Texas - The Great Debaters)
Sunday 13th July: Leland "Buzz" Meeks is born. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Sunday 13th July: Louise Ricks is found murdered in the coastal Kennerbunkpart home she shared with her granddaughter, Dorothy Ricks, and great-granddaughter, Maria Ricks. (Rockland, Maine - Offspring)
Monday 14th July: A newspaper article titled "GRANDMOTHER MURDERED, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER MISSING" is published. It is about the Ricks family. The newspaper mistakenly says Friday. (Rockland, Maine - Offspring)
Monday 28th July: James Terrance Jupp is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Wednesday 6th August: Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Flegenheimer) is born. (Bronx, New York - Portrait of a Mobster)
Monday 1st September: Le Voyage dans la lune (translated into English as A Trip to the Moon), a film made by Georges Melies and starring his future wife Jeanne d'Alcy, premiers. (Hugo)
Peter Bailey starts running Building and Loan. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Clive Candy shoots a lion. (East Africa - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
The Smith family have themselves a merry little Christmas, despite having to leave St Louis. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
John M. Johnson Jr. is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)
Alexander Hartdegen travels back in time 4 years to try to stop his fianc (The Time Machine)
Sunday 4th January: Georg Elser, who would attempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler in 1939, is born. (Germany - 13 Minutes)
Monday 16th March: Judge Roy Bean dies. (Langtry, Texas - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean)
Monday 6th April: Mickey Cochrane is born. (Bridgewater, Massachusetts - Cobb)
Sunday 19th April: Eliot Ness is born. (Chicago, Illinois - The Untouchables)
Saturday 6th June: Carla Hoffman registers to become a citizen. (Vandorf, Germant - The Gorgon)
Friday 19th June: Lou Gehrig is born. (New York, New York - The Pride of the Yankees)
Saturday 18th July: The date on the flyer for the Wild West Show that Cogburn sent to Ross. (True Grit)
Wednesday 29th July: Gretchen Bouman registers to become a citizen. (Vandorf, Germant - The Gorgon)
Wednesday 12th August: Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn dies. (Jonesboro, Arkansas - True Grit)
Saturday 15th August: Mattie Ross arrives at the Wild West Show and discovers that Rooster had died 3 days earlier. (True Grit)
Thursday 22nd October: Tom Horn is hanged in Wyoming for the murder of Willie Nickell. (Wyoming - Tom Horn)
Old whaling station left abandoned. (Antarctica - Alien Vs. Predator)
San Diego discovered by Germans, and named after a whale's vagina. (Anchorman)
Rick Blaine born. (New York - Casablanca)
Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police. (Belgium - Evil Under the Sun)