The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Sir Percy Blakeney disguised as The Scarlet Pimpernel rescues several families of the French aristocracy from the guillotine. (Paris, France - The Scarlet Pimpernel)
July: Connor MacLeod sentenced to execution, but replaced at the last moment. (Highlander III: The Sorcerer)
4th August: British General John Burgoyne dies. (United Kingdom - The Devil's Disciple)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 guarantees the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave. (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
Victor Frankenstein goes to the university to study medicine, where he makes his monster. (Ingolstadt, Germany - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
2nd March: Samuel Houston, the first president of the independent Republic of Texas, is born. (Rockbridge County, Virginia - The Alamo)
13th July: Jean Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. . (Marat/Sade)
17th July: Charlotte Corday is executed by guillotine in Paris. (Paris - Marat/Sade)
23rd July: Roger Sherman dies of typhoid. (New Haven, Connecticut - 1776)
2nd December: Samuel Taylor Coleridge enlists in the Light Dragoons. (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Victor Frankenstein dies. (Arctic Circle - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
27th July: Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. (Scaramouche)
Louis de Pointe du Lac turns young Claudia into a vampire. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
Thaddeus Burgess builds a log cabin with his family before the bitter winter. (Burgess - Rise of the Guardians)
The guard beginnings guarding the wall. (Wall - Stardust)
31st January: Alexander Hamilton resign his post as the Secretary of the Treasury. (Alexander Hamilton)
2nd November: James K. Polk is born. (Mecklenburg County, North Carolina - The Monroe Doctrine)
December: Jane Austen meets and flirts with Tom Lefroy. (Becoming Jane)
Tom Lefroy is sent away from the Austens; Jane begins work on Pride & Prejudice. (Becoming Jane)
Jacob Grimm comes home with beans instead of medicine for his sick sister, Lotte. (Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
Connor MacLeod begins living on Hudson Street under the name Adrian Montagu. He would continue to live here until at least 1985 under the names Jaques Lefebret, Alfred Nicholson, Rupert Wallingford and Russell Nash. (New York City, New York - Highlander)
Piscine Deligny is inaugurated. (Paris, France - Life of Pi)
9th March: At 10pm, Napoleone di Buonaparte weds Jos (2nd Arrondissement, Paris, France - Napoleon)
July: Napoleon fights the Battle of Castaglione. (Time Bandits)
T. Fisher dies. (The Fog)
The Bennet family try to offload their daughters. (Pride & Prejudice)
30th May: William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner. (England - Amazing Grace)
26th July: John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson. (London, England - Amistad)
Free property rights of horse and carriage. (Good Will Hunting)
Burgess is established by Thaddeus Burgess. (Burgess - Rise of the Guardians)
Gracie Mansion is remodeled for Archibald Gracie. (New York City, New York - Ghostbusters 2)
October: The Headless Horseman (The ghost of a Hessian Mercenary) begins haunting Sleepy Hollow New York. Constable Ichabod Crane is sent to investigate. (Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S.A. - Sleepy Hollow)
21st December: William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy move into Dove Cottage. (Westmoreland, England - Pandaemonium)
Average children wish list increases between this year and 2007. (Fred Claus)
A hale storm happens. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
7th January: Millard Fillmore is born. (Locke Township, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
"Priest" Vallon born. (Dublin, Ireland - Gangs of New York)
Mr Lockwood visits landlord Heathcliff for the first time. (Wuthering Heights)
2nd June: Gerald O'Hara born. (County Wicklow, Ireland - Gone with the Wind)
Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey leads the HMS surprise to victory against the French privateer Acheron. (Atlantic Ocean - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
22nd May: Martha Washington dies. (Mount Vernon, Virginia - Alexander Hamilton)
25th December: Santa Claus XVI gives every child on Earth a sausage nailed to a piece of bark. (Arthur Christmas)
Santa Claus The Seventeenth is born. (Arthur Christmas)
A record of T. Fisher's death is written. (The Fog)
3rd May: Larten Crepsley is turned into a vampire after having his heart broken. (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)
4th July: The Louisiana Purchase, which would include Kansas. (Kansas - Man of Steel)
Edwards and Hunt set head west to try and beat Lewis and Clark to the pacific coast (Almost Heroes)
The first year in the Time Continuim. (Timecop)
June: Lewis and Clark travel Kansas. (Kansas - Man of Steel)
11th July: Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. (Weehawken, New Jersey - Alexander Hamilton)
12th July: Alexander Hamilton dies. (New York City - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans. (Alien Vs. Predator)
23rd November: Franklin Pierce is born. (Hillsborough, New Hampshire - The Great Moment)
2nd December: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. (Paris, France - War and Peace)
Napoleon invades Austria, and is then kidnapped and taken to the future. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Capt Jack Aubrey leads the HMS Surprise against French warship the Acheron. (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
Count Cyril Bezuhkov dies. (War and Peace)
2nd April: Hans Christian Andersen is born. (Odensk, Denmark - Hans Christian Andersen)
21st October: Lord Nelson is shot in the spine, from the French flagship Redoubtable, surviving long enough to learn that he has led the British Fleet to a magnificent victory against Napoleon. (Off Cape Trafalgar - Lady Hamilton)
21st October: An ancestor of Jean-Luc Picard takes part in the Battle of Trafalgar. (Cape Trafalgar, Spain - Star Trek: Generations)