The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Seamus and Maggie McFly arrive emigrate from Ireland to America. (Back to the Future Part III)
Madeleine Ernestine is born. (Bride of Frankenstein)
John Fauntroy, the father of modern slavery, receives the Democratic nomination for president of the Confederate States of America. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
The Earp family arrives. (Tombstone, AZ - Tombstone)
21st April: A shipwreck takes place when there is fog. (The Fog)
27th June: Helen Keller is born. (Tuscumbia, Alabama - The Miracle Worker)
5th October: Tom Chaney murders Frank Ross. His daughter Mattie wants revenge. (Fort Smith, Arkansas - True Grit)
9th December: Father Patrick Malone meets with Blake for the first time. Blake stays in the shadows so Malone cannot see his face. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
11th December: Blake wants to relocate the entire colony. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
The James gang end their campaign of over 25 robberies. (The Assassination of Jesse James)
Chester A Arthur becomes 21st President of the United States of America. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
Gretchen Bouman is born. (The Gorgon)
Edgar Rice Burroughs hears that his uncle John Carter has died and inherits his estate, where he reads the manuscript of his adventure on Barsoom. A Thern follows him but is killed by John Carter, who gets back the medallion and returns to Barsoom. (John Carter)
Cyrus Rooney's group has insectile machines. (John Dies at the End)
Princess Pei Pei is rescued from kidnap in Nevada by a Chinese imperial guard and a cowboy. (Shanghai Noon)
Gunfight at the OK Corral. (Tombstone)
16th April: Bat Masterson fights the last gun battle of his life. (Dodge City - Masterson of Kansas)
20th April: Six conspirators, including Malone, plan the death of Blake and his comrades. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
21st April: A fog aids the conspirators in the murder of Blake and his comrades. (Antonio Bay, California - The Fog)
10th June: Count Leo Tolstoy sets off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant. (Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father)
2nd July: President James Garfield assassinated by Charles J Guiteau. (Unforgiven)
4th July: Little Bill Daggett beats up and arrests English Bob for carrying concealed firearms. (Big Whisky, WY - Unforgiven)
13th July: Billy the Kid is shot to death. (New Mexico - Young Guns 2)
26th October: After years of feuding and mounting tensions the (Tombstone, Arizona - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
26th October: Gunfight at the OK Corral (Tombstone)
Randall Bragg murders Sherriff Jack Bell and his two deputies, who came to his ranch to arrest two of his workers. (New Mexico Territory - Appaloosa)
Presidential nominee John Fauntroy, the father of modern slavery, dies. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Drew Scott dies. (High Plains Drifter)
Albert Stark's girlfriend Louise leaves him, but then he meets and is attracted to Anna, the wife of notorious outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Arizona - A Million Ways to Die in the West)
Cattle herdsmen unite to battle a ruthless rancher and his henchmen in 1882. (United States - Open Range)
Free-grazing cattlemen fight back against land baron and corrupt lawmen. (Montana - Open Range)
2nd February: James Joyce is born. (Dublin, Ireland - James Joyce's Women)
3rd April: Jesse James is murdered. (I Shot Jesse James)
22nd May: The Reverend Fortnum Fritton finds the first clue to finding the lost treasure of his ancestors. (St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)
14th July: Gunfighter John Ringo found dead. (Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona - Tombstone)
August: The defeated King of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, meets Queen Victoria in order to get his kingdom back. (England - Shaka Zulu)
2nd August: Jennet Humphrye gives birth to Nathaniel, who will later be adopted by his aunt Alice Drablow since his mother is suspected to be mentally unstable. (Crythin Gifford, England - The Woman in Black)
3rd September: Jolyen Forsyte throws a dance to announce the engagement of his granddaughter June to struggling architect, Philip Bosinney. Jolyen Forsyte II, June's father and a family outcast, spends the evening at a nearby corner pub. (London, England - The Forsyte Saga)
Kings Park Psychiatric Center is established. (Kings Park, NY - Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet)
Alferd Packer's trial. (Cannibal! The Musical)
Haddonfield is founded. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween 2)
Writer H.G.Wells travels in time chasing his friend who turns out to be Jack the Ripper, to Los Angeles. (London, England - Time After Time)
17th July: Cecilia Weiss is born. (Phantasm)
2nd August: Nathaniel Drablow's first birthday. A birthday card from his real mother has been sent to him. (Crythin Gifford, England - The Woman in Black)
21st August: The trial of Frank James begins. (Gallatin, Missouri - The Return of Frank James)
Mad Dog Tannen shoots 12 men, not including some Indians and some Chinamen. (Back to the Future Part III)
Judah P. Benjamin, supporter of Confederacy, dies. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Princess Ida flops in the theatre. (Topsy-Turvy)
8th May: Harry S Truman is born. (Lamar, Missouri - Truman)
19th June: Eddie Cicotte is born. (Spring Wells, Michigan - Eight Men Out)
23rd June: Alfred Kinsey born. (Kinsey)
12th July: Modernist painter Amedeo Modigliani is born. (Livorno, Tuscany - Modigliani)
11th October: Eleanor Roosevelt is born. (New York City - Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
1st December: Elfego Baca manages to hold off a gang of 80 cowboys who are determined to kill him. (Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law)
Chester A Arthur finishes presidency of the United States of America. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance)
Allan Quatermain discovers King Solomon's Mines. (King Solomon's Mines)
A woman in New Mexico reunites with her estranged father to rescue her daughter. (The Missing)
Chon Lin runs into an attempted-murderer, who may or may not be the future Jack The Ripper. (London - Shanghai Knights)
Gilbert and Sullivan create The Mikado after nearly splitting. (Topsy-Turvy)
1st January: On the spot of New Year, Dr Emmett L Brown arrives in Hill Valley from 1955. (Back to the Future Part III)