The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Fanny Price aligns herself with neighbour Henry Crawford. (Mansfield Park)
Don Diego de la Vega becomes Zorro. (The Mask of Zorro)
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth. (Persuasion)
The earliest date estimated to be when "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun" was painted. (Red Dragon)
30th May: Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel. (Houston: The Legend of Texas)
27th July: Meriwether Lewis shoots a Blackfoot Indian. (The Far Horizons)
19th January: Confederate General Robert E. Lee is born. (Westmoreland County, Virginia - Gods and Generals)
21st February: Martin Van Buren marries Hannah Hoes. (Catskill, New York - Amistad)
25th March: Slave Trade Act passed in Parliament. Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire. (Great Britain. - Amazing Grace)
13th June: Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed in Aaron Burr (Jefferson in Paris)
7th July: Capt Hornblower diverts Napoleon's Spanish allies by sponsoring a Central American revolution, and hooks up with Wellington's sister. (Captain Horatio Hornblower)
24th November: Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea, also known by his English name, Joseph Brant, dies at his home. (Burlington, Ontario - Divided Loyalties)
Peter Field is a watch and clockmaker. (The Fog)
29th December: Andrew Johnson is born. (Raleigh, North Carolina - Tennessee Johnson)
Peter Field Jr. is a watch and clockmaker. (The Fog)
The latest year estimated to be when "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" was painted. (Red Dragon)
12th February: Abraham Lincoln, future vampire hunter, is born. (Hodgenville, Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
12th February: Abraham Lincoln is born. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1st June: Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins to publish The Friend. (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
24th December: Kit Carson is born. (Richmond, Kentucky - Kit Carson)
Beethoven kidnapped mid-performance. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
21st June: Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Smith. (Louisville, Kentucky - Rebellion)
The Brothers Grimm are hired to kill a witch. (Karlstad, Germany - The Brothers Grimm)
Judah P. Benjamin, future supporter of Confederacy, is born. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
26th February: Robert Livingston dies. (1776)
Two werewolf sisters roam Canada. (Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning)
Anne Elliot vies with her brother-in-law's sister for Captain Wentworth's affections. (Persuasion)
Jean Valjean is released on parole by prison guard Javert. He steals silver from Bishop Myriel, who tells the authorities that he gave him the silver. Jean Valjean starts a new life. (France - Les Miserables)
14th February: Edmond Dantes returns, only to be imprisoned for sympathising with Napoleon. (France - The Count of Monte Cristo)
18th June: Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington. (Waterloo, Belgium - Napoleon)
20th June: With small hope for success of the Allies against Napoleon's drive, English securities fall to the lowest level on record. Spurred by the probable closure of the London Stock Exchange, banker Nathan Rothschild risks his fortune to single-handedly sustain the British economy until last minute news (via carrier pigeon) of Napoleon's defeat by Wellington at Waterloo turns the market around. (London, England - The House of Rothschild)
African-American slaves named Bill and Laura are born. (Django Unchained)
Shaka becomes King of the Zulus. (South Africa - Shaka Zulu)
6th March: Mary Shelley finds out that her baby is dead. (Gothic)
21st April: Charlotte Bronte is born. (Brontė)
14th May: Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John William Polidori visit Lord Byron. (Lake Geneva, Switzerland - Gothic)
15th May: The group awakens after a horric night. (Lake Geneva, Switzerland - Gothic)
3rd November: Jubal Early is born. (Franklin County, Virginia - Gettysburg)
An African-American slave is born. (Django Unchained)
18th February: Lewis Armistead is born. (New Bern, North Carolina - Gettysburg)
22nd March: Braxton Bragg is born. (Warrenton, North Carolina - Journey to Shiloh)
Abraham Lincoln defends a black boy named William Johnson. A vampire named Jack Barts causes the death of his mother, Nancy Lincoln. (Pigeon Creek, Indiana - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
The Bell Family begins to be haunted by a spirit/poltergeist. (Tennessee - An American Haunting)
30th July: Emily Bronte is born. (Thornton. Yorkshire, England - Devotion)
25th August: Allan Pinkerton is born. (Glasgow, Scotland - American Outlaws)
Crewmen from the Essex face storms, starvation and despair after a whale attacks their vessel. (In the Heart of the Sea)
Alexander Keith's brewery is established. (Halifax, Nova Scotia - Man of Steel)
17th January: Anne Bronte is born (Yorkshire, England - Devotion)
29th January: King George III dies. (Windsor Castle, Berkshire, United Kingdom - The Madness of King George)
26th September: Daniel Boone dies. (Defiance, Missouri - Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer)
An African-American slave named Stephen is born. (Django Unchained)
Helen Burns, future friend of Jane Eyre, born. (England - Jane Eyre)
Don Diego de la Vega, aka Zorro, is imprisoned for 20 years as Spain concedes California to Santa Anna. (The Mask of Zorro)
8th January: Confederate General James Longstreet is born. (Edgefield, South Carolina - Gettysburg)
19th February: Union General Francis Preston Blair, Jr., is born. (Lexington, Kentucky - Gods and Generals)
Lockport Guardian newspaper is founded. (Lockport, Illinois - Bride of Chucky)
An African-American slave named Jonathan is born. (Django Unchained)
Fitzpatrick is born. (Phantasm)
Archibald Witwicky is born. (Transformers)
4th October: Rutherford B. Hayes is born. (Delaware, Ohio - Buffalo Bill)