The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1889
Gotham City celebrates it's centennial. (Gotham City, USA) (Batman)
"Dirt Dragons" (known in future generations as "Graboids") plague a small desert community; they are killed and the community swears never to mention them again. (Rejection Valley, Nevada) (Tremors 4: The Legend Begins)
3rd February: The outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous "Bandit Queen" with two shotgun blasts from behind. (Oklahoma) (Belle Starr)
31st March: The Eiffel Tower is opened. (Paris, France) (Transformers: Age of Extinction)
16th April: Charlie Chaplin is born. (Walworth, London, England) (Chaplin)
20th April: Adolf Hitler is born. (Braunau am Inn, Austria) (Hitler: The Rise of Evil)
16th July: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson is born. (Pickens County, South Carolina) (Eight Men Out)
24th August: Nicholas Lundy born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)
18th October: Nathaniel Drablow dries in the marshes outside of Eels Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway. This is what causes his birth mother, Jennet, to hang herself and become The Woman in Black who leads children to their deaths. (Crythin Gifford, England) (The Woman in Black)
7th November: Gunfight between George Kelby and Vinnie Harold to determine the fastest gun alive (The Fastest Gun Alive)
5th December: Lewis D. Bell is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)