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Barnabas Collins rejects his family's servant, Angelique Bouchard. Being a witch, she exacts her revenge by putting a spell on his lover Josette du Pres that makes her walk off a cliff. Barnabus turns into a vampire and is buried in a coffin by an angry mob. (Collinsport, Maine - Dark Shadows)
At the gravesite of his mother, Victor Frankenstein vows to "put a stop" to death. (Geneva, Switzerland - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
3rd March: Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission. ( Fayette, La)
14th March: Alexander Hamilton receives his commission as Captain of a New York artillery company. (Alexander Hamilton)
29th March: General George Washington appoints Major General Israel Putnam commander of the troops in New York. (The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds)
29th April: General George Washington orders Brigadier General Nathanael Greene to take command of Long Island and set up defensive positions against a possible British attack on New York City. (The Scarlet Coat)
12th June: The Virginia Convention, unanimously adopts George Mason (Williamsburg, Virginia - A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation)
29th June: Edward Rutledge expresses his reluctance to declare independence from Britain in a letter to the like-minded John Jay of New York . (1776)
July: Patriot Lou brings Nick, Jacob, and Adam Jr. to found America. (Washington D.C. - Hot Tub Time Machine 2)
4th July: Second Continental Congress formally adopts Declaration of Independence. (1776)
4th July: Declaration of Independence is signed. (Philadelphia, PA - 1776)
4th July: Declaration of Independence. (Vertigo)
28th January: John Burgoyne submits an ill-fated plan to the British government to isolate New England from the other colonies. (The Devil's Disciple)
13th June: Marquis de Lafayette arrives with the intent to serve as General George Washington (South Carolina - Jefferson in Paris)
6th August: General Nicholas Herkimer falls at the Battle of Oriskany. (Rome, New York - Drums Along the Mohawk)
The future guard of Wall is born. (Stardust)
23rd April: John Paul Jones burns Whitehall. (London - John Paul Jones)
18th June: 15,000 British troops under General Sir Henry Clinton evacuate Philadelphia. (Yorktown)
17th September: Mohawk Indian chief and British Loyalist leader Joseph Brant leads a force of 150 Iroquois Indians and 300 British Loyalists under the command of Captain William Caldwell in a surprise attack on the area of German Flats, New York. (Herkimer, New York - Divided Loyalties)
Gracie Mansion is built. (New York City, New York - Ghostbusters 2)
January: A Hessian Horseman Mercenary is killed by militia. The men chop off his head with his own sword and bury it with his body in the Western Woods. (The Western Woods of the Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollo - Sleepy Hollow)
1st June: Benedict Arnold is court-martialled. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor)
Lestat becomes a vampire. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
29th September: British spy John Andr (Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor)
Baltimore is founded. (Alien Nation)
17th January: Benjamin Martin defeats the British by running into enemy fire armed with a flag; people follow him, and luckily some have guns. (Cowpens (modern-day South Carolina) - The Patriot)
25th April: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis retreats after being defeated at Guilford Courthouse by 4,500 Continental Army soldiers and militia under the command of American Major General Nathanael Greene. (Wilmington, North Carolina - The Patriot)
5th December: Martin Van Buren is born. (Kinderhook, New York - Amistad)
Connor MacLeod stabbed over 8 times in a duel - and survives. (boston common - Highlander)
Lament Configuration (black puzzle box) was commissioned from Philip Lemarchand by the Duc de l'Isle (Hellraiser: Bloodline)
28th February: John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States. (John Wesley)
26th June: Caesar Rodney dies. (Kent County, Delaware - 1776)
The legend of the Blair Witch. (The Blair Witch Project)
4th January: Jacob Grimm is born. (Hanau, Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
7th February: Ebeneezer Scrooge is born. (A Christmas Carol)
16th February: James Monroe marries Elizabeth Kortright. (New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
24th February: Wilhelm Grimm is born. (Hanau, Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
13th June: Winfield Scott is born. (Petersburg, Virginia - Lincoln)
The Headless Horseman starts attacking the locals. (Sleepy Hollow - Sleepy Hollow)
28th April: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty, and sets Lieutenant William Bligh and several other men adrift in the Pacific Ocean. (Pacific Ocean, West of Tahiti (Near Tonga) - The Bounty)
July: Shaka Zulu is born. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
The vampire Marius turns Lestat into an undead. (an island in the Mediterranean - The Queen of the Damned)
July: King George III begins to suffer mental illness. (The Madness of King George)
Gotham City is founded. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
A lengthy legal precedent goes back to this year. (Good Will Hunting)
A cemetery is founded. (New Orleans, Louissiana - Hatchet)
The French Revolution; the King swaps places with the piss-boy to save himself, and a young woman prepares to exchange her virginity to save her father. (Paris - History of the World: Part I)
Claudia born. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
Marie Antoinette and the royal family leave Versailles in hopes of saving themselves from the Revolution. (story of the young Marie Antoinette). (Versailles, France - Marie Antoinette)
The beginning of the French Revolution. (France - Les Miserables)
Mr Peabody and Sherman arrive from the present day and nearly got killed in the reign of terror. (Paris, France - Mr. Peabody & Sherman)
United States Customs and Border Protection is founded. (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
10th March: halloween is made (2012)
28th April: (This date should be changed to 1789 (not 1787 as listed). Sorry, must have been my typo when submitted.) 28th April: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty, and sets Lieutenant William Bligh and several other men adrift in the Pacific Ocean. (Pacific Ocean, West of Tahiti (Near Tonga) - Bounty, The ) (The Bounty)
14th June: William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the HMS Bounty seven weeks before, reach Timor in the East Indies after travelling nearly 4,000 miles in a small open boat . (The Bounty)
14th July: Bastille falls. (Paris, France - Carry On Don't Lose Your Head)
Louis de Pointe du Lac becomes a vampire, at the hands - or teeth - of Lestat. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
9th May: Francis Hopkinson dies of a seizure. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1776)
18th October: This is the actual date that Giles Redferne dies. The third part of the Satanic book is buried with him. (Boston, Massachusetts - Warlock)
5th December: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. (Amadeus)