The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
A Predator gains a pistol while hunting in the Roanoke colony. (Predator 2)
Rob Roy escapes the defeat of the clans. (Scotland - Rob Roy)
Mr Forsythe puts a spell over the village. (Brigadoon - Brigadoon)
14th October: Giles Redferne dies. The third part of the Satanic book is buried with him. (Boston, Massachusetts - Warlock)
18th October: Giles Redferne dies at age 59. The third part of the Satanic book is buried with him. (Boston, Massachusetts - Warlock)
Pirate Jack Sparrow frees a governor's daughter in the hope of regaining the Black Pearl. (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
11th April: David Zeisberger is born. (Zauchental, Moravia, near Ostrava (Czech Republic) - The Moravian Massacre)
Captain Jack Sparrow is dragged to the depths of the sea along with his beloved ship, the Black Pearl, by the Kraken. (The Caribbean - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)
April: The poet Alexander Pope delivers the eulogy at Isaac Newton's funeral in Westminster Abbey. (London - The Da Vinci Code)
Sir Thomas Bond, ancestor of James Bond, dies. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Long John Silver's brandy laid down by the brothers of Buckfast Abbey. (Muppet Treasure Island)
4th February: By order of the Council, Jews are officially banned from the City of W (Stuttgart, Germany - Jew Süss)
16th April: General Sir Henry Clinton is born. (Newfoundland, Canada - The Pursuit of Happiness)
17th July: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille born. (Paris, France - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer)
A year in a French dictionary next to the word "Garvie". (Taking Lives)
Mer et Chandon a Epernay is founded. (Star Trek: Generations)
23rd February: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of Europe's most prominent banking empire is born. (Frankfurt, Germany - Rothschilds, Die)
3rd June: Schoolmaster Alexander Balfour dies and leaves instructions for his son to travel to the House of Shaws with a sealed letter. (Scotland - Kidnapped)
24th December: Benjamin Rush is born. (Byberry Township, Pennsylvania - Independence)
27th November: Robert Livingston is born. (Clermont, New York - 1776)
Taverne Du Chat Noir is established. (New Orleans, Louissianna - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
A water-logged lifeboat is found in the sea. (South of the Tuamotu Archipelago - King Kong)
The Mission. (Argentina/Paraguay/Brazil - The Mission)
31st January: Gouverneur Morris is born. (A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation)
Casanova narrowly escapes execution. (Venice - Casanova)
4th August: George Washington becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry. (Fredericksburg, Virginia - National Treasure)
Start of the Seven Years War. (Barry Lyndon)
During the French and Indian War, the last of Mohicans tries to save Cora and Alice Munro from Hurons. (The Last of the Mohicans)
11th January: Alexander Hamilton is born. (Charleston, Nevis, British Empire - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
9th August: After battle, the winning French general agrees to allow the British leader, Col. Munro, to surrender the fort and march his English troops and settlers to another English fort. (Fort William Henry, upstate New York - The Last of the Mohicans)
10th August: Native American tribes allied with the French massacre British troops as they relocate to a new fort. (The Last of the Mohicans)
28th April: James Monroe is born. (Westmoreland County, Virginia - The Monroe Doctrine)
17th October: Darwin writes of the difference between pigeons. (Creation)
24th August: William Wilberforce born. (Great Britain - Amazing Grace)
Joshua and Naomi Collins, along with their son Barnabas, sail to North America. (Liverpool, England - Dark Shadows)
Mr Earnshaw takes in an orphan boy, Heathcliff. (Wuthering Heights)
The Collins family, now living in the fishing port they established, begin building Collinwood Manor. (Collinsport, Maine - Dark Shadows)
Mozart writes a song. (The Wrong Man)
End of the Seven Years War, er, nine years later. Apparently. (Barry Lyndon)
Mr Edward Magorium, toy aficionado, avid shoe-wearer, is born. (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)
A mysterious beast kills hundreds of people. (South-west France - Brotherhood of the Wolf)
14th May: Mr Arrow, late on the ship Hispaniola, is washed overboard in a storm his body not recovered for burial. (Atlantic Ocean. - Treasure Island)
Louis de Pointe du Lac born. (France - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
The town of Adamant is established. (Adamant, Vermont - What Lies Beneath)
25th June: Serial-Murderer, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, returns to his beloved Paris where - after dousing himself in the distilled perfume of 13 virgins - he is loved, literally, into oblivion. (Paris, France - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer)
16th July: Father Junipero Serra founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego. (San Diego, California - Seven Cities of Gold)
7th April: William Wordsworth is born. (Lake District, England - Pandaemonium)
The Huntsman's Den is established. (He's Just Not That Into You)
24th December: Barbara Ann Spooner, future wife of William Wilberforce, born. (England - Amazing Grace)
Windsor Plantation built. Noah would later buy and renovate it. (Seabrook Island, South Carolina - The Notebook)
Catherine Beaufort Frankenstein dies giving birth to William. (Geneva, Switzerland - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
9th February: William Henry Harrison is born. (Virginia - Tecumseh)
12th August: Robert Southey is born. (Bristol, England - Pandaemonium)
24th May: John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress . (The Rebels)
10th June: John Adams proposes a Continental Army. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The Rebels)
17th June: Battle of Bunker Hill begins. (Boston, Massachusetts - Valley Forge)
27th June: Continental Congress resolves that Major Gen Philip J. Schuyler travel to Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point to examine the troops, their supplies and their ability to navigate Lakes Champlain and George. (Alexander Hamilton)
23rd July: Eug (A small town approximately 50 miles from Paris, France - A Scandal in Paris)
10th November: The U.S. Marine Corps is born. (Tun Tavern, Philadelphia - Jarhead)
16th December: Jane Austen born. (Becoming Jane)