The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
24th January: Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek. (East of San Francisco, California - Sutter's Gold)
21st February: John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke. (Amistad)
22nd August: Ulysses S. Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent. (St. Louis, Missouri - Strange Glory)
Adam Ewing goes to the South Pacific. (South Pacific Ocean - Cloud Atlas)
Drew Scott is born. (High Plains Drifter)
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
Grandpa Sawyer is born. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
16th May: The ship Land o'Lakes out of Buffalo, NY, bound for Milwalkee encounters a four-bell force gale, strikes a reef and flounders; all hands are lost, including Capt. Joshua Stuart and sixty immigrants from the Old World. (Lake Michigan, USA - Thunder Rock)
15th June: James K. Polk dies. (Nashville - The Monroe Doctrine)
6th August: Harriet, future wife of James Dupp, is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
7th October: Edgar Allan Poe dies from poisoning himself to save the life of Emily Hamilton. (Baltimore, MD - The Raven)
Huck Finn has adventures. (The Adventures of Huck Finn)
Hill Valley is founded. (California - Back to the Future Part III)
The Scarlet Letter is published. (Easy A)
Hancock rescues Mary from their burning house. (USA - Hancock)
John Hancock drags Mary Embrey from flames after a house-fire. (Hancock)
Alejandro de la Vega saves California's statehood and wins back his wife Elena from French Count Armand. (California - The Legend of Zorro)
9th July: Zachary Taylor dies of cholera morbus. (Washington, DC - Rebellion)
5th August: Guy de Maupassant is born. (Dieppe, France - Guy de Maupassant)
9th November: Adam Ewing witnesses the lashing of a native. (South Pacific Ocean - Cloud Atlas)
15th November: The day is spent arranging Adam Ewing's apothecary. (South Pacific Ocean - Cloud Atlas)
16th November: A stowaway is discovered on the Musket. (South Pacific Ocean - Cloud Atlas)
21st December: William Wallace Lincoln is born. (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
Dr Samuel A. Cartwright writes "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race", in which he describes Drapetomania as a prevalent but curable condition in runaway slaves. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
The vintage on which the sherry is based on is made. (Diamonds Are Forever)
Alice, of Wonderland fame, born. (Alice in Wonderland)
1st May: Calamity Jane is born. (Princeton, Missouri - Calamity Jane)
A fraternity known as BKE begins. (Accepted)
Dr. King Schultz stops practicing dentistry. (Django Unchained)
The year on Jennie Beck's gravestone. (Rennie's Landing)
22nd January: J. Smith dies. (New Jersey - Bride of Chucky)
30th March: Vincent van Gogh is born. (Netherlands - Lust for Life)
8th July: Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. (Japan - The Bushido Blade)
25th July: California Rangers kill Joaquin Murrieta. (Joaquin Murrieta)
20th October: Arthur Rimbaud is born. (Charleville, France - Total Eclipse)
George "California" Noon is born. (Utah - Cannibal! The Musical)
Sherlock Holmes born. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act organizes Kansas into a territory. (Kansas - Man of Steel)
Someone is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)
Christine Daae born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
Sherlock Holmes born (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
An eight year-old Oscar Wilde announces his intention to become a pop idol. (Velvet Goldmine)
6th January: Sherlock Holmes born. (Sherlock Holmes)
16th October: Oscar Wilde is born. (Dublin, Ireland - Velvet Goldmine)
Clara Clayton born. (New Jersey - Back to the Future Part III)
The Sioux army attacks the wagon train, heading west, of the future Sheriff Bart and his family, but lets them go. (Blazing Saddles)
Charles Foster Kane born. (Citizen Kane)
Henkell Trocken is made. (Germany - Land of the Dead)
The town of Oak Stump is founded. (oak stump,arizona - A Million Ways to Die in the West)
Pope Pius IX feels that the male statues may inspire lust and decides that they should be castrated. (Vatican City - Angels & Demons)
Emma C. is born. (Night of the Living Dead)
Tristan Thorn is born when his father Dunstan goes through the wall and his an affair with a witch's maiden slave. (Wall - Stardust)
In winter, Bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz shoots the Speck Brothers and unchains Django. (Somewhere near Daughtry, Texas - Django Unchained)
A man who is later killed by vampires is born. (Van Helsing)
23rd January: Around this time, no landing can be made on the island for the next five weeks due to bad weather. The Cook family, which has gone missing, begins to starve. (Bangor, Maine - Offspring)
10th February: Millard Fillmore marries Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. (Albany, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
20th February: Captain Warren of Booth Bay finds the only survivor of the Cook family, Libby, around this time. (Bangor, Maine - Offspring)
27th February: A newspaper article titled "LIGHT KEEPER, FAMILY MISSING" is published. It focuses on the Cook family. (Bangor, Maine - Offspring)
1st May: Django and Schultz meet Calvin Candie at a club. (Greenville, Mississippi - Django Unchained)
2nd May: Stephen writes a check for $68 to the Harris Feed Company. (Mississippi - Django Unchained)