The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
13th April: Rebecca Rolfe, formerly Pocahontas, dies of an illness. (England - The New World)
23rd April: William Shakespeare dies, after having lived in Los Angeles for some time. (Los Angeles - L.A. Story)
23rd April: William Shakespeare dies. (The Number 23)
Mary McTarry is raped by the Campbells. (Casino Royale)
Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal. (Highlander)
A year in a French dictionary. (Taking Lives)
Connor MacLeod meets Duncan . (Glen Fruin, Scotland - Highlander: Endgame)
The earliest year that One-Eyed Willy could have started making tunnels. (Near Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
The latest year that One-Eyed Willy could have started making tunnels. (Near Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
Santa Claus The Fifteenth is born. (Arthur Christmas)
The year on a Boston Police uniform. (Boston, Massachusetts - The Town)
Connor MacLeod takes Duncan through The Game. (Ravenna, Italy - Highlander: Endgame)
One-eyed Willy trapped in a cave and draws a treasure map. (nr Astoria - The Goonies)
12th April: Galileo is convicted of heresy for holding the heretical belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. (Galileo)
Santa Claus The Thirteenth dies. (Arthur Christmas)
Father Laforgue, upon finding the Huron Nation decimated by scarlet fever, baptizes the remaining members, only to have the Iroquois defeat them in battle soon afterwards. (Quebec, New France - Black Robe)
Harvard University is founded. (Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Social Network)
Harvard University is not founded by John Harvard. (Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Social Network)
Southampton established. (Southampton, New York - Something Borrowed)
James McCullen is found guilty of treason for selling arms to the enemies of King Louis XIII. His punishment is to wear a metal mask that has been heat seared to his face for the remainder of his life. (France - G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra)
8th January: Galileo Galilei dies. (Arcetri, Tuscany, Italy - Galileo)
Jack Byrnes traces his ancestry back to this year. (Little Fockers)
Sphere lands in the Pacific Ocean (Bottom of the Ocean - Sphere)
King Charles I is condemned to death. (To Kill A King)
John Pymm dies. (Cromwell)
The Devil 'touched' 34 nuns who then had orgies with goats. (Ursuline Convent, Loudun, France - Exorcist: The Beginning)
30th January: King Charles I is beheaded for treason. (London, England - To Kill A King)
Baskerville Hall comes into the ownership of Hugo Baskerville, who hears what becomes known as "The Hound of the Baskervilles." (Baskerville Hall, England - The Hound of the Baskervilles)
7th June: Louis XIV ascends to the throne. (France - The Day After Tomorrow)
Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked. (Robinson Crusoe)
Charles II restored to the English throne after 11 years of Puritan rule. (Restoration)
2nd September: Giles Redferne is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - Warlock)
The year on Louis Quatorze Donne's document. (Star Trek: Generations)
Chronicle of Zealot begins. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
La Purga, in which four scientists are branded by the Catholic church (apparently) (Angels & Demons)
December: Johannes van Hoytl the younger dies. (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
A Warlock takes a girl from her mother in the woods. (New England - Warlock III: The End of Innocence)
A year in a French dictionary next to the word "Girth." (Taking Lives)
Robinson Crusoe rescued. (Robinson Crusoe)
Santa Claus The Fifteenth dies. (Arthur Christmas)
William III and Queen Mary hold a pig funeral - mourners included Dr Pea and Sir Nicholas Sheet-Lightning. (London - The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse)
Chronicle of Zealot ends. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
The Warlock is taken captive by the witch-hunter Giles Redferne. He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the bewitching of Redferne's bride-to-be, but before the execution Satan appears and propels the Warlock forward in time to 20th century Los Angeles, California. Redferne follows through the portal. (Boston, Massachusetts - Warlock)
John and Lizzy Proctor, plus several others, are convicted of witchcraft and put to death because of a babysitter scandal. (Salem Village, Mass - The Crucible)
1st May: William "Billy" Butcherson dies. (Salem, Massachusetts - Hocus Pocus)
31st October: Three witches suck out the life of Emily Binx, turn her brother Thackery into a cat and get hanged. (Salem, Massachusetts - Hocus Pocus)
August: Mr Neville is hired to do 12 drawings of Mr Herbert's Estate by his wife. These include the house and surrounding grounds of the estate. (Somewhere within 6 days horse ride of Southhampton - The Draughtsman's Contract)
4th May: Gulliver departs on his travels (Bristol - Gulliver's Travels)
5th November: Gulliver encounters a storm and winds up in Lilliput. (Gulliver's Travels)
A British naval officer poses as a deserter to trick a pirate and her cohort in 1700 Madagascar. (Madagascar - Against All Flags)
23rd May: British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder . (London, England - Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl)
1st June: Asano Naganori of Ako, enraged by continued derogatory comments, attacks and injures Kiro Yoshinaka, the corrupt Kozuke-no-suke of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's shogunate; since violence of any kind is forbidden within the walls of Edo Castle, Asano is sentenced to commit seppuku that same day. (Edo Castle, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
13th December: In defiance of the Shogunate, 47 loyal Ako vassals led by Oishi, former Asano chamberlain, take revenge on Kiro Yoshinaka by attacking his residence and murdering him; in honorable fashion, they surrender themselves to Lord Hosokawa and await judgement. (Edo, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
3rd February: After 50 days in custody, the 47 Ronin are sentenced to commit seppuku for the murder of Kira Yoshinaka. (Lord Hosakawa's mansion, Japan - The 47 Ronin)
31st July: Daniel Defoe is put in the pillory as punishment for seditious libel. (Robinson Crusoe)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
Calpurnia Addams is burned as a witch. (The Addams Family)
Connor MacLeod and Duncan rescue a stagecoach from bandits, and Duncan meets Kate. (Kildare, Ireland - Highlander: Endgame)
August: Agatha Prenderghast is accused of being a witch and hanged. Her seven accusers are cursed. (Blithe Hollows - ParaNorman)
Duncan kills Kate MacLeod. (Ireland - Highlander: Endgame)