The Movie Timeline...

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In the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)

26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)

A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)

1 zillion BC October 9: Cavemen discover fire, and the joys of eating dinosaur egg (Caveman, 1981)

5,000,000BC Martians uplift apes to become intelligent as a way to preserve their own society (Quatermass and the Pit)

4,000,000BC Aliens leave monolith on Earth (2001: A Space Odyssey)

2,000,000BC Dinosaurs become extinct (Godzilla, 1954)

1,000,000BC Loana faces dinosaurs to be with Tumak, a caveman banished from his savage tribe, and then from her gentler group of cave people (One Million Years BC)
San Dimas, Ca - A phone box briefly arrives from the future containing Bill S Preston and Ted 'Theodore' Logan (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

80,000BC A tribe of early man searches for fire (Quest For Fire)

50,000BC Loser Charlie Wishnick arrives from the future, meets naked people and is nearly eaten by a giant (50,000 BC (Before Clothing), 1963)

35,000BC North Texas - Two cavemen encounter an alien at their ice cave (The X-Files)
8000BC A spaceship lands in the North African desert and takes a caveboy (Stargate)

3400BC The Scorpion King comes to power (The Scorpion King)

3000BC Bouvet Island, Antarctica - Predators arrive and teach humans to build a pyramid (Alien vs Predator)

2897BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2797BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2697BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2597BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2497BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2397BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2297BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2197BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

2097BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1997BC October 10: Cambodia - A Predator hunting mission backfires, and they self-destruct to kill the Xenomorph infestation (Alien vs Predator)

1897BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1797BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1697BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1597BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1497BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1400BC Moses defies Pharoah and helps the Israelites to flee Egypt; they wander the desert for not believing God will lead them to Israel (The Ten Commandments)

1397BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1297BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1290BC High Priest Imhotep murders Pharoah Seti I and is then cursed and mummified alive; Ramesses II succeeds his father Seti I (The Mummy)

1197BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1193BC Achaean Greeks destroy Troy over Helen (Troy)

1097BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

997BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

897BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

797BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

697BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

597BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

497BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

480BC Greece - Persian Emperor Xerxes invades (The 300 Spartans, 1962)

410BC Socrates vanishes while preaching, as a futuristic phone-box appears nearby (Bill & Ted)

397BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

297BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

272BC China - The 1st sovereign emperor of China federates the seven warring states & imposes on Lo Pan the curse of "no flesh" (Big Trouble In Little China, 1986)

197BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

97BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

44BC March 15: Julius Caesar killed (Julius Caesar)

4AD October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

33 Jesus is crucified and raised from the dead (Jesus of Nazareth, The Passion of the Christ)
A man called Brian is crucified, and presumably not raised from the dead (Life of Brian)

35 Roman Emperor Tiberius sentences to death Marcellus Gallo and Diana, martyring them for their Christian beliefs (The Robe)

41 Roman Emperor Gaius Caligula killed in front of all at the Coliseum; his not-overly-reluctant uncle Claudius made emperor (Demetrius and the Gladiators)

104 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

168 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius begins his 12 year campaign against the Barbarian Tribes in Germania (Gladiator)

180 General Maximus wins the battle in Germania, Marcus Aurelius is murdered by his son Commodus and Commodus becomes Emperor (Gladiator)

181 Maximus becomes a great Gladiator and kills Commodus, before dying himself (Gladiator)

204 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

304 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

404 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

504 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

604 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

704 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

804 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

859 The House of Flying Daggers rises to oppose the governing Tang dynasty in China (House of Flying Daggers)

871 Alfred The Great becomes king (Alfred The Great)

904 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

922 The last Neanderthal tribe dies out as one Arab and twelve Viking warriors kill the Queen and War Chief (The Thirteenth Warrior)

932 Arthur gathers knights for a quest for the Holy Grail (Monty Python & The Holy Grail)

993 Hogwarts school founded (Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone)

1004 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1066 Hastings - King Harold, last Saxon king of England, is killed by an arrow from William the Conqueror's invading army (Wilhelm Cuceritorul)

1104 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1170 Thomas Becket is murdered (Becket)

1183 King Henry II plans a reunion to name his successor (The Lion In Winter)

1184 Jerusalem - Balian of Ibelin arrives after losing his family and faith (Kingdom of Heaven)

1186 Jerusalem - Balian helps King Baldwin IV defend the city between the Second and Third Crusades (Kingdom of Heaven)

1190 The Third Crusade begins (The Crusades)

1192 The Third Crusade ends (The Crusades)

1204 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1209 Genghis Khan, roaming the hills, is kidnapped (Bill & Ted)

1242 Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod in Russia, defeats the Teutonic Knights on top of the frozen Lake Peipus (Alexander Nevsky, 1939)

1277 William Wallace's family killed in a battle with the English (Braveheart)

1290 William Wallace marries Murron, briefly (Braveheart)

1300 Ashley J Williams arrives from the future to combat the Army of Darkness (Army of Darkness)

1304 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1305 London - William Wallace executed at The Tower of London (Braveheart)

1314 Robert The Bruce leads the Scots against the English to win their freedom (Braveheart)

1327 North Italy - Brother William of Baskerville and his young aide Adso investigate a string of murders in a remote abbey (The Name of the Rose)

1357 France - Several bungling American archeologists briefly appear from the future (Timeline)

1404 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1415 October 25: Henry V fights the Battle of Agincourt (Henry V)

1422 Transylvania - Vladislaus Valerious born (Van Helsing)

1429 Joan of Arc prays, and is taken to the future (Bill & Ted)

1462 Vladislaus Valerious killed at the hand of his friend, Van Helsing; Vladislaus makes a pact with Satan and returns as Dracula (Van Helsing)

1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1492 October 12: Land sighted from the Pinta – looks a bit American (1492: Conquest of Paradise, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Carry On Columbus)
October 31: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's attempted beheading - after 45 strikes he becomes the ghost Nearly Headless Nick (Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets)

1504 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1518 January 1: Glenfinnan, Scotland - Connor MacLeod born (Highlander)

1524 A rebellion against General Katana on planet Zeist is quashed (Highlander II: The Quickening)

1534 Jacques Cartier sails to North America (Ever After)

1536 Loch Shiel, Scotland - The MacLeod clan face off against the Fraser clan (Highlander)

1541 Connor MacLeod meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, who sounds a bit Scottish (Highlander)

1547 January 28: King Henry VIII dies (Lady Jane etc)

1553 July: Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen, for just over a week (Lady Jane)

1555 Glencoe & Glenfinnan, Scotland - Connor's mother is burned at the stake, and in his failed attempt to save her he kills Jacob Kell and Father Rieney (Highlander: Endgame)

1560 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

1561 August 19: Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England and meets Elizabeth I (Mary Queen of Scots)

1587 Mary Queen of Scots on trial at Fotheringhay Castle (Mary Queen of Scots)

1590 Shakespeare falls in love with Viola De Lesseps (Shakespeare In Love)
Heather MacLeod dies (Highlander)

1604 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1605 November 5: London - Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament (V For Vendetta)

1607 Explorer John Smith discovers the clash between Native Americans and English settlers, and meets Pocahontas (The New World)

1610 King James I is visited by the Russian ambassador, and Orlando falls in love with Princess Sasha (Orlando, 1992)

1622 Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal (Highlander)

1625 Glen Fruin, Scotland - Connor MacLeod meets Duncan (Highlander: Endgame)

1631 Ravenna, Italy - Connor MacLeod takes Duncan through The Game (Highlander: Endgame)

1632 nr Astoria - One-eyed Willy trapped in a cave and draws a treasure map (The Goonies)

1645 King Charles I is condemned to death (To Kill A King)

1646 John Pymm dies (Cromwell)

1650 Timeless nobleman Orlando meets the poet Green (Orlando, 1992)

1659 Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked (Robinson Crusoe)

1660 Charles II restored to the English throne after 11 years of Puritan rule (Restoration)
Amber St Clair raises herself from country girl to nobility (Forever Amber)

1673 Lorna Doone entices John Ridd (Lorna Doone)

1685 The Monmouth Rebellion (Lorna Doone)

1687 Robinson Crusoe rescued (Robinson Crusoe)

1692 Salem Village, Mass. - John and Lizzy Proctor, plus several others, are convicted of witchcraft and put to death because of a babysitter scandal (The Crucible)

1699 Captain Kidd connives a job escorting a treasure ship from India (Captain Kidd)

1703 Gulliver discovers Brobdingnag (Gulliver's Travels)

1704 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1711 Gulliver marooned with the Houyhnhnms (Gulliver's Travels)

1712 Kildare, Ireland - Connor MacLeod and Duncan rescue a stagecoach from bandits, and Duncan meets Kate (Highlander: Endgame)

1715 Rob Roy escapes the defeat of the clans (Rob Roy The Highland Rogue)
A Predator gains a pistol while hunting in the Roanoke colony (Predator 2)
Ireland - Duncan kills Kate MacLeod (Highlander: Endgame)

1719 Brigadoon - Mr Forsythe puts a spell over the village (Brigadoon)

1720 Pirate Jack Sparrow frees a governor's daughter in the hope of regaining the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

1727 Sham, a horse, is born, and starts one of the great thoroughbred racing lines (King of the Wind)

1750 Argentina/Paraguay/Brazil - The Mission
Timeless nobleman Orlando becomes a timeless noblewoman (Orlando, 1992)

1753 Venice: Casanova narrowly escapes execution (Casanova)

1754 Start of the Seven Years War (Barry Lyndon)

1757 During the French and Indian War, the last of Mohicans tries to save Cora and Alice Munro from Hurons (The Last of the Mohicans)

1760 Mr Earnshaw takes in an orphan boy, Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)
Treasure Island

1763 End of the Seven Years War, er, nine years later. Apparently. (Barry Lyndon)

1765 A mysterious beast kills hundreds of people in south-west France (Brotherhood of the Wolf)

1766 France - Louis de Pointe du Lac born (Interview With A Vampire)

1776 July 4: Second Continental Congress formally adopts Declaration of Independence (1776)

1780 Lestat becomes a vampire (Interview With A Vampire)

1781 Lord Cornwallis surrenders to the colonies (The Birth of a Nation)

1785 Shaka Zulu born (Shaka Zulu)
The legend of the Blair Witch (The Blair Witch Project)

1787 Sleepy Hollow - The Headless Horseman starts attacking the locals (Sleepy Hollow)

1788 Summer: King George III begins to suffer mental illness (The Madness of King George)

1789 Bastille falls in Paris (The Madness of King George)
New Orleans, Louisiana - Claudia born (Interview With A Vampire)

1791 December 5: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies (Amadeus)
Louis de Pointe du Lac becomes a vampire, at the hands - or teeth - of Lestat (Interview With A Vampire)

1792 Swashbuckler John Paul Jones dies (John Paul Jones)
Summer: Connor MacLeod sentenced to execution, but replaced at the last moment (Highlander III: The Sorcerer)

1793 Percy Blakeney becomes The Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

1795 Louis de Pointe du Lac turns young Claudia into a vampire (Interview With A Vampire)

1796 Napoleon fights the Battle of Castaglione (Time Bandits)

1797 The Bennet family try to offload their daughters (Pride & Prejudice)

1801 Mr Lockwood visits landlord Heathcliff for the first time (Wuthering Heights)

1804 October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)

1805 Napoleon invades Austria, and is then kidnapped and taken to the future (Bill & Ted)
Count Cyril Bezuhkov dies (War and Peace)
Capt Jack Aubrey leads the HMS Surprise against French warship the Acheron (Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World)

1806 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)

1809 February 12: Abraham Lincoln is born (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

1810 Beethoven kidnapped mid-performance (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

1814 Two werewolf sisters roam Canada (Ginger Snaps Back)
Anne Elliot vies with her brother-in-law's sister for Captain Wentworth's affections (Persuasion)

1815 February 14: France - Edmond Dantes returns, only to be imprisoned for sympathising with Napoleon (The Count of Monte Cristo)

1816 Shaka becomes king Zulu (Shaka Zulu)
July 16: Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and his sister Mary have a party in Geneva, and Frankenstein is born (Gothic)
1821 Don Diego de la Vega, aka Zorro, is imprisoned for 20 years as Spain concedes California to Santa Anna (The Mask of Zorro)

1828 September 22: Shaka Zulu killed by two half-brothers (Shaka Zulu)

1829 February 27: France - Edmond Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If (The Count of Monte Cristo)

1830</B> Young girls go missing and vampires start appearing (Lust For A Vampire)

1835 Orphan Oliver Twist meets Fagan and his gang (Oliver!)

1836 February 23: Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie head a stand-off between Texans and Tejanos (The Alamo)
March 6: The siege of the Alamo ends (The Alamo)
April 21: General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna's army at the Battle of San Jacinto (The Alamo)

1837 Queen Victoria crowned Queen of England (Mrs Brown, etc)

1838 Bremen - Count Orlok arrives in the area and takes aim on his real estate agent's wife (Nosferatu)
Paris - The Count of Monte Cristo arrives in a lavish balloon (The Count of Monte Cristo)

1839 A mutiny occurs on a slave ship heading to the north-east of America (Amistad)

1840 Captain John Boyd investigates rumours of cannibalism at a remote fort (Ravenous)

1841 Alejandro Murrieta becomes the new Zorro as Don Rafael Montero plots to exploit Californian peasants (The Mask of Zorro)
Tom Sawyer

1842 Two men stand trial for murder, when saving some, but not all, from a slave ship on the high seas (Souls At Sea)

1843 Texas Ranger Jake Cutter teams up with the gambler he arrested to take on renegade gang The Comancheros (The Comancheros)

1845 Dr Dolittle spoke to some animals (Dr Dolittle, 1967)
Albus Dumbledore born (Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone)
Texas - Sam Houston is dissuaded from establishing Texas as a republic by cattle baron Devereaux Burke (Lone Star)

1846 New York - Priest Vallon is killed by Butcher Bill (Gangs of New York)

1847 Paris - Fanny Sebastiani Choiseul-Praslin is murdered (All This And Heaven Too)
Paris - Camille, a beautiful courtesan, dies of consumption while awaiting the return of Armand Duval, her one true love (Camille, 1936)

1848 California - The new justice system is put to the test when a Californian Mexican is murdered in a gun duel (The Young Land)

1849 Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born (The Phantom of the Opera)

1850 Huck Finn has adventures (The Adventures of Huck Finn)
Timeless nobleman/woman Orlando marries Shelmerdine (Orlando, 1992)
America - Rabbi Avram Belinski teams up with bank robber Tom Lillard in a troubled trek across the country (The Frisco Kid)
California - Alejandro de la Vega saves California's statehood and wins back his wife Elena from French Count Armand (The Legend of Zorro)
California - Hill Valley is founded (Back To The Future Part III)

1851 Manuel Romasanta, a werewolf, murders 13 people, and uses their body fat as soap (Romasanta)

1852 Amid severe yellow fever in New Orleans, Julie Marsden fights to win over Preston Dillard (Jezebel)
Alice, of Wonderland fame, born (Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through The Looking-Glass)

1854 An eight year-old Oscar Wilde announces his intention to become a pop idol (Velvet Goldmine)
Sherlock Holmes born (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Christine Daae born (The Phantom of The Opera)

1855 England - Elaborate plans are afoot to steal gold from a moving train in the 1st Great Train Robbery (The First Great Train Robbery)
New Jersey - Clara Clayton born (Back To The Future Part III)

1859 Alice journeys to Wonderland and through a looking-glass (Alice in Wonderland; Alice Through The Looking-Glass)

1860 Austin Stoneman rises to power in the National House of Representatives (The Birth of a Nation)

1861 April 12: American Civil War begins; Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler at the Twelve Oaks party (Gone With The Wind)
Paris - Christine Daae's father, Gustav, dies, and she goes to the Opera Populaire, an orphan, to study to be a ballerina (The Phantom of the Opera)

1862 The King of Siam falls for widowed British teacher Anna Leonowens (Anna and the King)

1863 New York - Amsterdam Vallon kills Butcher Bill (Gangs of New York)
Men delivering gold are killed by a futuristic machine gun; their cargo mysteriously disappears (Timecop)
Washington - Abraham Lincoln is kidnapped and taken to the future (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
The Federal Army faces the army of North Virginia at Little Round Top (Gettysburg)

1864 Belgium - Hercule Poirot born (Death on the Nile)

1865 April 9: Appomattox Courthouse - Gen Lee surrenders to Gen Ulysses S Grant; and Col Cameron, future founder of the Ku Klux Klan, is released from army hospital (The Birth of a Nation)
April 14: Ford's Theatre - Abe Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during 'Our American Cousin' starring Laura Keene (The Birth of a Nation)
April 14: A half-man, half-fish hybrid is found, and named Abraham (Hellboy)
April 22: The news hits the southland that Stoneman has become effective leader of the new United States (The Birth of a Nation)
September 5: California - Hill Valley becomes a city (Back To The Future Part III)

1866 Captain Nemo travels with his submarine (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea)
11 year old Clara Clayton becomes interested in astronomy when her father gives her a telescope when she has diphtheria (Back To The Future Part III)

1867 Captain Nemo saves Professor Arronax (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea)

1868 Wild Wild West
June 2: Professor Arronax and his crew escape the Nautilus (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea)

1869 nr Brantford, new Hampshire - Two boys, Caleb and Benjamin, bury the board game 'Jumanji' (Jumanji)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1870 Paris - Christine Daae sings "Think of Me" and is reunited with Raoul; they are engaged to be wed (The Phantom of the Opera)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea first published (Back To The Future Part III)
Young Sherlock Holmes, presumably 16, meets young Dr Watson (Young Sherlock Holmes)

1871 Paris - The Opera Populaire is devastated by a fire resulting from the Phantom's shattering of the chandelier (The Phantom of the Opera)
Session of State House of Representatives in uproar as 101 blacks overrule the 23 remaining whites (The Birth of a Nation)

1872 London - Lawrence Van Helsing kills Count Dracula on top of a coach with a stake through the heart (Dracula AD 1972)
Phileas Fogg journeys around the world, in about 80 days (Around The World In 80 Days)

1873 Captain Nemo rescues castaways from a mysterious island (The Mysterious Island)

1874 American West - Bart becomes the first black Sheriff in the West at the order of Hedley Lemar (Blazing Saddles)
London - Disraeli oversees the British purchase of control of the Suez Canal (Disraeli)

1876 Northfield, Minnesota - The James boys and the Younger brothers attempt to rob the bank (The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, 1972)
April 28: Brooklyn Bridge is unveiled (Kate & Leopold)
June 25: George Armstrong Custer killed in The Battle of Little Bighorn (Little Big Man, 1970)

1877 December 31: Billy The Kid first meets Pat Garrett (Young Guns)

1878 January 1: John Tunstall is assassinated by Murphy's henchmen while hunting a pheasant (Young Guns)

1879 Billy The Kid is kidnapped and taken to the future (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Natal/Glasgow - Zulu retreat, and someone runs off with officer Perkins' right leg (The Meaning of Life)
Chester A Arthur nominated Vice-President of the United States of America (Die Hard With A Vengeance)
January 22: Rorke's Drift - Sfter the Battle of Isandlwana, 139 soldiers hold off 4000 Zulu warriors in a 12hr battle, winning 11 Victoria Crosses (Zulu, 1964)

1880 Seamus and Maggie McFly arrive emigrate from Ireland to America (Back To The Future Part III)
Tombstone, AZ - The Earp family arrives (Tombstone)
Idaho - Young Lalu arrives from China and resists becoming China Polly, a prostitute in a gold-mining town (Thousand Pieces of Gold)

1881 Princess Pei Pei is rescued from kidnap in Nevada by a Chinese imperial guard and a cowboy (Shanghai Noon)
Shoot-out at the OK Corral (Tombstone)
July 2: Washington D.C. - President James Garfield assassinated by Charles J Guiteau (Unforgiven, 1992)
July 4: Big Whisky, Wyoming - Little Bill Daggett beats up and arrests English Bob for carrying concealed firearms (Unforgiven, 1992)
Big Whisky, Wyoming - William Munny, Ned Logan & the Schofield Kid kill two cowboys for the town's whores; Munny kills Little Bill Daggett, Skinny Dubois and others to avenge Logan (Unforgiven, 1992)
Chester A Arthur becomes 21st President of the United States of America (Die Hard With A Vengeance)

1882 Annie marries Frank (Annie Get Your Gun)

1883 August 27: The most explosive volcanic eruption in recorded 19th century history on the island of Krakatoa (Krakatoa, East of Java)

1884 Princess Ida flops in the theatre (Topsy-Turvy)
Mad Dog Tannen shoots 12 men, not including some Indians and some Chinamen (Back To The Future Part III)

1885 January 1: On the spot of New Year, Dr Emmett L Brown arrives in Hill Valley from 1955 (Back To The Future Part III)
Allan Quatermain discovers King Solomon's Mines (King Solomon's Mines)
London - Chon Lin runs into an attempted-murderer, who may or may not be the future Jack The Ripper (Shanghai Knights)
A woman in New Mexico reunites with her estranged father to rescue her daughter (The Missing)
In Mexico, Rio the Kid seeks revenge on Sheriff Karl Malden following his betrayal (One-Eyed Jacks)
Chester A Arthur finishes presidency of the United States of America (Die Hard With A Vengeance)
Gilbert and Sullivan create The Mikado after nearly splitting (Topsy-Turvy)
Khartoum - Gen Charles "Chinese" Gordon dies hard, a la Alamo, during the fall of Khartoum (Khartoum, 1966)
April: William Sean McFly born (Back To The Future Part III)
July 4: Doc Brown knocked out by one shot of whisky (Back To The Future Part III)
September 1: Doc Brown hides the Delorean in Delgado mine and writes to Marty in the future (Back To The Future Part III)
September 2: 8am – Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley from 1955 (Back To The Future III)
September 4: Clara Clayton supposedly dies in "The Clayton Ravine", or is saved by Doc Brown (Back To The Future Part III)
September 5: The clock tower in Hill Valley starts running, at 8pm (Back To The Future Part III)
September 7: A train falls into a ravine, and Marty McFly travels through time to 1985 (Back To The Future Part III)
December 15: Emmett Brown marries Clara Clayton (Back To The Future Part III)

1886 London - John Merrick, the Elephant Man, is befriended by Dr Frederick Treves (The Elephant Man)
20 year-old Anne Sullivan meets 7 year-old blind and deaf Helen Keller, and begins to teach her how to communicate (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
Allan Quartermain fakes his own death (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Hill Valley - Baby Jules born to Emmett and Clara Brown (Back To The Future Part III)
An American Tail

1887 Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon fight for the Imperial Seal in Victorian London (Shanghai Knights)
Hill Valley, Ca - The bridge over the ravine is completed (Back To The Future Part III)
Transylvania - Dracula (Vladislaus Valerious) kills Dr Victor Frankenstein at Frankenstein's castle (Van Helsing)
The Island of Dr Moreau
Paolo Andolini, elder brother of the future Godfather, is born (The Godfather trilogy)

1888 Jack The Ripper is identified as the Royal Family's doctor (From Hell)
London - Sherlock Holmes attempts to find Jack The Ripper (A Study In Terror, Murder By Decree)
Hill Valley - Baby Verne born to Emmett and Clara Brown (Back To The Future Part III)
Dracula wipes out the Valerious family, and is killed once again by Van Helsing (Van Helsing)
November 22: Lord Greystoke born, and adopted by Kala the ape (Tarzan)

1889 Rejection Valley, Nevada suffers man-eating graboid worms (Tremors 4)

1890 Sir Robert Chiltern turns to Lord Arthur Goring when blackmailed by Mrs Laura Cheveley (An Ideal Husband)
London - Count Dracula arrives and encounters Van Helsing (Dracula)
Vinegarron, TX - Roy Bean survives hanging & kills everyone that strung him, then naming himself 'Law West of the Pecos' (The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean, 1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
April 11: London - John Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies (The Elephant Man)

1891 April 5: Reichenbach Falls - Sherlock Holmes "dies" (Sherlock Holmes)

1892 Sicily - Vito Andolini born (The Godfather trilogy)

1893 Chicago - At the World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfield steals Billings' girlfriend for the first time (The Great Ziegfield)
London - H.G. Wells' time machine is stolen by John Leslie Stevenson, aka Jack the Ripper (Time After Time)

1894 London - Sherlock Holmes re-emerges three years after his "death" (Sherlock Holmes)
Cat Ballou meets Kid Sheleen and becomes an outlaw (Cat Ballou)

1895 Charles Foster Kane born (Citizen Kane)

1897 Carmella (later to become Corleone) born (The Godfather trilogy)
Karl Rupert Kronen born in Munich (Hellboy)

1898 Aliens leave Mor-Tax for their invasion on Earth, 40 years later (The War of the Worlds)
Sudan - A young British soldier is named a coward upon resigning his post, but fights on undercover to redeem himself (The Four Feathers)

1899 Henry Jones Jr born, later to be nicknamed Indiana (Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade)
A poet, Christian, falls for a beautiful courtesan, Satine, and sings some Elton John songs (Moulin Rouge)
Alexander Hartdegen proposes to Emma, just before she is killed in a mugging (The Time Machine)
Outlaw Jack Beauregard takes on The Wild Bunch, 150 men hired by real estate mogul Sullivan, then escapes to New Orleans (My Name Is Nobody, 1973)
Allan Quatermain leads Captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer, Dorian Gray, vampiress Mina Harker, invisible man Rodney Skinner and Dr Jekyll/My Hyde against The Fantom (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
New York - Newspapermen strike against bosses Willian Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer (Newsies)
November 5: Netta Longden is burned in a Guy Fawkes bonfire (Hangover Square)
December 31: George demonstrates a time machine to four of his friends, and steps into the future (The Time Machine, 1960)

1900 A dozen nations unite in the siege of the International Compound in Peking during in the Boxer Rebellion (55 Days In Peking)
Inventor Joe Belden races across America chasing a $5000 prize (Excuse My Dust)
Gigi
Future Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams born (Chariots of Fire)
Forbidden Valley - Tuck Kirby and team capture Gwangi, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, to bring him back for a Wild West show (The Valley of Gwangi)
January: George arrives to dinner with his friends dishevelled, disoriented, hungry and from far into the future (The Time Machine)
February 14th: Victoria, Australia - Several girls from Appleyard College go missing on a picnic, at Hanging Rock (Picnic at Hanging Rock)

1901 Sigmund Freud is kidnapped by two high-school students from the future (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
January 22: Carson City, NE - J.B. Books, famous shootist, rides into town (The Shootist)
January 22: Queen Victoria dies (Mrs Brown, The Shootist)
January 29: Carson City, NE - J.B. Books dies from gunshot wounds during a shoot-out (The Shootist)
Antonio Andolini, his wife and son Paolo are murdered, leaving their younger son Vito an orphan (The Godfather trilogy)

1902 Myra Langtry has lunch with Addison Sims of Seattle (The Grifters)
Perfection, Nevada - Town founded (Tremors)

1903 The Smith family have themselves a merry little Christmas, despite having to leave St Louis (Meet Me In St Louis)
Fulworth, Sussex - Sherlock Holmes retires (Sherlock Holmes)
Professor Challenger discovers the Lost World (The Lost World)
Alexander Hartdegen travels back in time 4 years to try to stop his fiancée’s murder (The Time Machine)

1904 J.M.Barrie writes Peter Pan (Finding Neverland)
At the age of 24, Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College cum laude, the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college (Deliverance, 1919)
Belgium - Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police (Evil Under The Sun)
Brooks Hatlin enters Shawshank prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
Antarctica - Old whaling station left abandoned (Alien vs Predator)
San Diego discovered by Germans, and named after a whale's vagina (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)

1905 New York - David 'Noodles' Aaronson and Maximilian Bercowicz born (Once Upon A Time In America)

1906 April 18: San Francisco - An earthquake and fire levels the city, affecting many including a priest, a dishonest saloon/casino owner and an operatic hopeful (San Francisco, 1936)

1907 Burketsville - a infant mysteriously dies, prompting rumours of a witch (The Blair Witch Project)
The Overlook Hotel is built (The Shining)
Oklahoma Territory - Curley McClain kills Jud Fry (Oklahoma!, 1955)
New York - Philip 'Cockeye' Stein and Patsy Goldberg born (Once Upon A Time In America)

1908 Chicago Cubs win the World Series, for the last time for 107 years (Back To The Future Part II)
The Von Brauns arrive in Hill Valley (Back To The Future Part III)

1909 The Tunguska blast, a major interdimensional time-rip, occurs (Ghostbusters)

1910 A young crippled boy witnesses the downfall of his idol, the local horse breaker (Hammers Over The Anvil)
London - A magical nanny visits the Banks family; King Edward is on the throne (Mary Poppins)
Tom Hagen born (The Godfather trilogy)

1911 Harry Bailey is born (It's A Wonderful Life, 1946)
The controversial Findelmeyer Proposition, given by Prof Heinrich Findelmeyer of the University of Zurich (What's Up Doc)
November 26: The New York Herald reports that Joseph Green, Stanley Berry and Daniel Hill murdered a man in Greenberry Hill (Magnolia)

1912 Brooks Hatlin begins work at the Shawshank prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
A young Indiana Jones separates from his boy scout troop, steals the Cross of Coronado and encounters snakes, a bullwhip and a fedora (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Lono Veccio's grandfather arrives in America by boat from Ireland (Suicide Kings)
April 12: Titanic sets sail from Southampton; that night, steerage passenger Jack Dawson meets First Class passenger Rose Dewitt Bukater (Titanic)
April 13: Jack Dawson dines with Rose Dewitt Bukater (Titanic)
April 14: Titanic hits the iceberg (Titanic)
April 15: Time-travelling dwarves appear on the intact Titanic, briefly (Time Bandits)
April 15: Titanic sinks (A Night To Remember, Titanic)
April 15: Jack Dawson drowns in the Atlantic, without ever being listed on any casualty list (Titanic)
June 27: Mackinac Island - Richard Collier arrives via hypnosis attempting to locate Elise McKenna (Somewhere In Time, 1980)

1913 Former seaman Clinton Jones works a lowly job as his daughter Ruth tries to become an actress (The Actress)
Egypt - Mondoshawans return to Earth at the pyramids, to recover the four elements (The Fifth Element)

1914 The Great War begins (The Great War)
Broadway - Chaim Pearlgut stars in the Yiddish revue Dybbyck Shmybbyck, I Said 'More Ham' (Waiting For Guffman)
Little Italy - Vito and Carmella Corleone move in (The Godfather trilogy)
Gandhi returns to India (Gandhi)

1915 Edward Sheridan Lionheart born (Theatre of Blood)
Western Australia - Young soldiers who have joined the ANZACs are brutally slaughtered fighting the Turkish army in Gallipoli (Gallipoli)

1916 Santino 'Sonny' Corleone born (The Godfather trilogy)
Bridie Quilty's father fights for Ireland against the English (I See A Dark Stranger)
At a dinner in his honour, Rasputin is poisoned, shot, stabbed, clubbed, castrated and drowned - he survives them all (Hellboy)
Charles Foster Kane runs for governor but loses after being caught in sex-scandal with a young starlet (Citizen Kane)
March 8: Columbus, New Mexico - Pancho Villa's Mexican rebels attack, forcing the US to attempt his capture (They Came To Cordura)
October: The Hitaz Region, Arabia - T.E. Lawrence starts to help Arabs to fight a guerilla war against the Ottoman Empire (Lawrence of Arabia)

1917 Paris: Christine Daae dies (The Phantom of the Opera)
Biggles and Jim arrive from the future (Biggles)
Russia - The storming of the Winter Palace (Funeral In Berlin)
January 12: Monsieur Audel killed in battle (Chocolat)
September 13: George stops his time machine and learns that his friend David Filby was killed in "the war" (The Time Machine, 1960)

1918 In Paris, Cole Porter meets Linda Lee Thomas (De-Lovely)
The Blue Max
Americans and French enter Berlin (Casablanca)
A young German pilot, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal for 20 kills (The Four Feathers)
October: T.E. Lawrence and Prince Feisal conquer Damascus; Lawrence returns to Britain (Lawrence of Arabia)
October: Paul Baumer is killed a month before the Armistice ending The Great War (All Quiet On The Western Front)>
November: As the Great War ends in Germany, art dealer Max Rothman befriends art student Adolf Hitler (Max)

1919 Frederico 'Fredo' Corleone born (The Godfather trilogy)
Paris - The Opera Populaire's public auction, inc. Lot 666, the chandelier in pieces; Raoul buys the music box for Christine's grave where the Phantom places her engagement ring (The Phantom of the Opera)
Helsinki - the last double-fault final-play elimination in a Dodgeball tournament (Dodgeball)
May 3: Emil Gower receives a telegram informing him that his son has died fom influenza (It's A Wonderful Life, 1946)
October: The Chicago White Sox conspire to throw the World Series (Eight Men Out)
October 10: Cambridge - Harold Abrahams meets Aubrey Montague at their first day at Caius College (Chariots of Fire)
Winter: Bedford Falls, New York - Harry Bailey drowns while sledging, or is saved by his brother George, timeline-dependent (It's A Wonderful Life, 1946)

1920 Michael Corleone born; Theresa, Tom Hagen's future wife, born (The Godfather trilogy)
Pirates of 1920
Scottish Highlands - Eric Liddell begins running seriously (Chariots of Fire)
New York - The 'City of Albany' central train derails killing hundreds of people, later to become a ghost train (Ghostbusters)
Hill Valley, California - Emmett L Brown born (Back To The Future III)

1921 Prohibition; Noodles and Max go into business against Bugsy, till he exacts his revenge (Once Upon A Time In America)
April 16: East Weymss, Scotland - Eric Liddell is guest speaker at an athletics meeting (Chariots of Fire)

1922 Irish patriot Michael Collins dies (Michael Collins)
New York - Millie Dumount and friends smash a white slave trade ring run by Mrs Meers (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

1923 England: Ailing novellist Virginia Woolf begins to write 'Mrs Dalloway' (The Hours)
Chicago, IL - St Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage is built (The Blues Brothers, 1980)
June 2: Edinburgh - Scotland face France in athletics at the Wanderers Club (Chariots of Fire)
July 7: London - Eric Liddell races against Harold Abrahams (Chariots of Fire)

1924 Kay Adams born (The Godfather trilogy)
J Edgar Hoover founds FBI (Senior Trip)
June 28: Broadstairs, Kent - Aubrey Montague writes to his mother from the Carlton Hotel (Chariots of Fire) July: Paris - Harold Abrahams wins the 100m dash and Eric Liddell wins the 400m race at the Olympics (Chariots of Fire)

1925 Pirates - The Death Head Aerial Squadron - attack the US postal service (The Great Air Robbery)

1926 December 31: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, is born (Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets)
The Mummy

1927 Sicily - Don Vito returns to avenge his father's murder; Constanzia 'Connie' Corleone born (The Godfather trilogy)
Ellis "Red" Redding arrives at Shawshank prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
The First of The Few
Russia - The Twelve Chairs
May 21: Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo flight across the Atlantic (Meet Me In St Louis)

1928 An interstellar teleportation device is discovered in Giza, Egypt, as well as what appear to be fossils in the stone underneath it (Stargate)
December 6: Hagrid born (Harry Potter)
The Abominable Dr Phibes
Easter: Margaret gives John a Church Hymnary book (The 39 Steps)

1929 Chicago - Roxie Hart murders her lover (Chicago)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929, the first all-singing, all-dancing, all-talking movie (The Hollywood Revue of 1929)
Melbourne stadium - India play Australia at cricket (Namak Halaal)
New York - Stock market crash (The Great Ziegfield)
Sam Spade investigates the Maltese Falcon (The Maltese Falcon)
Memoirs of a Geisha
February 14: St Valentine's Day Massacre; two male musicians witness it and escape dressed as women (Some Like It Hot)
October 29: Bedford Falls, NY - George Bailey & Mary Hatch marry; The Bailey Building & Loan manages to stay open with only $2 left (It's A Wonderful Life, 1946)
October 30: New York - Lyle Atwood and an unknown man jump from a Wall St skyscraper. They vanish, before Lyle reappears and lands on a car, dead (Timecop)

1930 Eliot Ness teams up with James Malone to take on Al Capone in Chicago (The Untouchables)
Washington - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives wrongly raise tariffs to alleviate The Great Depression (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Howard Hughes produces 'Hell's Angels' (The Aviator)

1931 Sally Bowles makes a splash on the Berlin cabaret scene (Cabaret)
Winter - Michael Sullivan Jr joins his father for six weeks of assassination and repayment (The Road To Perdition)
Apollonia (later to become Corleone) born (The Godfather trilogy)
Hill Valley, Ca - Emmett Brown first reads Jules Verne (Back To The Future Part III)
July 17: Ned Devine born (Waking Ned)

1932 Howard Hughes branches into aviation (The Aviator)
Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum born (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a rape trial (To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962)

1933 Adolf Hitler appointed German Chancellor, and granted dictatorial powers (The Pianist, etc)
Depression; Noodles released from prison (Once Upon A Time In America)
Philip Marlowe becomes a private investigator (The Big Sleep)
Fay Wray stars in King Kong (King Kong)
December: King Kong is discovered on Skull Island and set loose in New York (King Kong)

1934 May 23: Texas - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are gunned down (Bonnie & Clyde)
September 5: Hitler flies to Nuremberg to review the assembly of his followers (Triumph des Willens)

1935 John Coffey is executed on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit (The Green Mile)
Rick runs guns to Ethiopia (Casablanca)
Indiana Jones escapes Chinese gangsters in Shanghai before falling into the Thuggee cult's plot in India (Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom)
There is a murder, on the Orient Express (Murder On The Orient Express)
Ed Murrow begins at CBS (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tom Baxter steps down from the movie screen and into the life of Cecilia (The Purple Rose of Cairo)
June 13: The Great Depression; boxer James Braddock beats Max Bauer in 15 rounds to become World Heavyweight Champion, and the title 'Cinderella Man' (Cinderella Man)
September 6: Top Hat opens in cinemas (The Purple Rose of Cairo)
October 23: Mobster Dutch Schultz shot on orders of Lucky Luciano (The Cotton Club, 1984, Hoodlum, 1997)

1936 Indiana Jones races against the Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Spain - Rick fights with the Loyalist Spaniards (Casablanca)
Greenville, Florida - Ray Robinson (later Charles) starts to lose his sight from glaucoma after seeing his brother drown in the washtub (Ray, 2004)
German troops reoccupy the Rhineland (Angela's Ashes)
Alvy Singer born (Annie Hall)

1937 Francesca and Kathryn Corleone born; Johnny Fontaine released from contract to bandleader Les Halley (The Godfather trilogy)
China and Japan begin a state of undeclared war (Empire of the Sun)
Hitler joins the Thule Society, a collection of German aristocrats obsessed with the occult (Hellboy)
The Foggy Bottom Boys band is formed by Ulysses Everett McGill, Delmar O'Donnell & Pete from an escaped chain-gang (O Brother Where Art Thou, 2000)
Arkansas - Johnny Cash's father floats his family out from their home after a flood (Walk The Line)
March 26: Hill Valley, Ca - Biff Tannen born (Back To The Future Part II)
May: The passenger zeppelin makes its last voyage from Frankfurt, Germany to Lakehurst (New Jersey) Naval Air Station, where it crashes and bursts into flames (The Hindenburg)

1938 Indiana Jones travels to Venice to find his father, kidnapped by Nazis while searching for the Holy Grail (Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade)
Hitler acquires the Spear of Longinus that pierced the side of Jesus, increasing his power greatly, as it gives its holder invincibility (apparently) (Hellboy)
Alien invasion lands on Mars, before sending a test mission to Earth (The War of the Worlds)
Los Angeles - A special jet-pack is created (The Rocketeer)
The Keys of the Kingdom
Nazis enter Austria and Czechoslovakia (Memory of the Camps)
Lithuania - Hannibal Lecter born (The Silence of the Lambs)
Lorraine Baines born (Back To The Future)
April 1: George McFly born (Back To The Future)
September: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, starts first year at Hogwarts (Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets)
October 30: Grover's Mill, NJ - Aliens from the 8th dimension invade Earth; Orson Welles was reporting an actual invasion (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai)

1939 Hitler annexes Poland (Memory of the Camps)
Salzburg, Austria - A governess falls in love with a captain with seven children; they escape the Nazis by climbing the Alps into Switzerland (The Sound of Music, 1965)
The film Gone With The Wind is released (Best In Show)
Captain Daniel McCormack agrees to be cryogenically frozen by Harry Finlay (Forever Young, 1992)
New York is attacked by flying robots, and famous scientists vanish from around the world (Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce (Batman: The Movie)
Spring/Summer: Roy Hobbs emerges from nowhere to lead the New York Knights to the National League pennant over the Pittsburgh Pirates (The Natural, 1984)

1940 An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert are hypnotised into a jewel heist (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Tom Hagen marries Theresa; Frank Corleone and Frank Hagen born (The Godfather trilogy)
England - The Blitz (The Longest Day)
England - Four children travel through a wardrobe and discover Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, 2005)
The Sea Tiger ship commissioned (Operation Petticoat)
Allie and Noah go to the cinema, to see Li’l Abner. Aw. (The Notebook)
Paris - Sam Diamond trusts a dame; she says she's going out for a bottle of wine, and 2 hours later the Germans march into France (Murder By Death)
May: Mrs Miniver disarms a German soldier in her kitchen while her husband helps evacuate British and French soldiers from Dunkirk (Mrs Miniver, 1942)
Christmas: "Everytown" devastated by aerial bombardment (Things To Come)

1941 Charles Foster Kane dies (Citizen Kane)
Citizen Kane released (Fade To Black)
Hollywood, CA - German-commanded Japanese submarine tries to invade, successfully destroys ferris wheel and is thwarted by patriotic Americans (1941)
Empire of the Sun
June 6: 150 rolls of toilet paper requested by USS Sea Tiger (Operation Petticoat)
December: Casablanca - Sam's watch stops and Ilsa leaves Rick (Casablanca)
December 6: Pacific Ocean - USS Nimitz nuclear-power aircraft-carrier appears via a temporal vortex, till nearly Pearl Harbor time (The Final Countdown)
December 7: The Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan attack the United States of America (Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbour, Tora Tora Tora, The Final Conflict)
December 13: Los Angeles, CA - 'Wild' Bill Kelso lands an American figher plane (1941, 1979)
December 14: Belgium - The Battle of the Bulge starts in the forests of the Ardennes (Patton, 1970)
December 16: 150 rolls of toilet paper refused to USS Sea Tiger (Operation Petticoat)

1942 The film Casablanca is released (Best In Show)
'Bialy Hoos of 42' debuts on Broadway (The Producers, 2005)
Andrew Hagen born (The Godfather trilogy)
Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets)
New York - Young Alvy Singer in trouble for kissing girls in the classroom (Annie Hall)
Summer - 3 youths visit Nantucket Island and come of age (Summer of 42)
June - The Battle of Midway (Midway)
September 20: Stalingrad - At the height of Nazi power in Europe, Vassilij Zaitzev, a young shepherd boy, arrives from the Urals to fight for Stalin (Enemy at the Gates)
December 23: Fielding Mellish's parents start beating him (Bananas)

1943 Col Nicholson leads the construction of a bridge while a prisoner-of-war (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
President Roosevelt forms the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to fight Hitler (Hellboy)
A wormhole in time is opened to 1984 (The Philadelphia Experiment)
Madame Curie discovers radium (Madame Curie)
London - RAF Sergeant John Dougall arrives home after escaping from Germany (Bon Voyage)
Kheros, Mediterranean - 2000 British soldiers lie marooned awaiting certain death, unless two giant guns on the island of Navarone can be disarmed (The Guns of Navarone)
Jean-Paul Sartre writes that so long as a man can look into the eyes of his oppressor, he is free (Me and the Big Guy)
Mexico - A major volcano erupts from a cornfield (Volcano)
December 31: Aunt Bea wakes up her nephew so he can witness 1944 coming in, with the radio playing (Radio Days)

1944 Insurance salesman Walter Neff helps Phyllis Dietrichson kill her husband for the insurance money (Double Indemnity)
"Good luck"/"Thank you"... A soldier forgets to speak German, having escaped a prisoner-of-war camp (The Great Escape)
Dyess, Arkansas - Young Jack Cash dies after a circular saw accident (Walk The Line)
Winston Smith born (1984)
Hannibal Lecter's sister Mischa falls victim to the Nazis; Hannibal escapes (Hannibal)
Future Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell born (54)
April 4: Daddy Carroll born (My Own Private Idaho)
Late Spring: Fielding Mellish's parents stop beating him (Bananas)
June 6: D-Day (The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan)
September 17: Operation Market-Garden begins, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge (A Bridge Too Far)
September 25: Operation Market-Garden ends, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge (A Bridge Too Far)
October 9: The Nazis attempt to open a portal and let out the 7 Gods of Chaos; a baby demon comes through and US soldiers adopt it (Hellboy)
Winter: Antwerp, Belgium - City ordered to be re-taken by Hitler, with an all-out offensive on the Ardennes region (Battle of the Bulge, 1965)
December 16: Lt Hart crashes his truck into a gully and discovers the bodies of the Malmedy Massacre (Hart's War)

1945 Hitler commits suicide (Downfall)
Don Corleone shot while shopping for oranges; Connie Corleone marries Carlo Rizzi; Santino Corleone Jr born to Sonny (The Godfather)
An island off the British coast - Grace Stewart and her children are apparently spooked by ghosts (The Others)
China - Olympic athlete Eric Liddell dies in occupied territory while serving as a missionary (Chariots of Fire)
Paris - Jerry Mulligan stays after serving as a G.I. to become a painter (An American In Paris)
Alec Trevelyan's parents survive the Betrayal of the Cossacks, but later commit suicide (GoldenEye)
Planes go missing mysteriously (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Mount Rose - Iona Hildebrandt crowned Mount Rose American Teen Princess, before her tiara's turned into scrap to help fight Japan (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
'Accentuate The Positive' released as a song (L.A. Confidential, 1997)
June 29: 800 men are eaten by sharks after delivering the Hiroshima bomb (Jaws)
September 21: Japan - Young Seita dies (Grave of the Fireflies)
October 17: Buenos Aires - Juan Peron addresses Argentina (Evita)
November 11: World War II ends (Love's Labour's Lost)

1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina (Evita)
El Paso - Lionel Twain picked up for smuggling a truckload of rich white Americans across into Mexico to pick melons (Murder By Death)
Judith Myers born (Hallowe'en)
June 13: Jason Voorhees born (Friday 13th)

1947 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Brighton Rock
Andy Dufresne begins sentence at Shawshank for the murder of his wife (The Shawshank Redemption)
Santa Rosita, CA - "Smiler" Grogan robs a tuna factory of $350,000 and buries the money under the big W at Rosita Beach State Park (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
Tom Hagen becomes consigliere to Don Corleone; Michael Corleone marries Apollonia in Sicily, who dies very soon after (The Godfather trilogy)
Howard Hughes test-flights the Blue Spruce (The Aviator)
October 14: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier (The Right Stuff)

1948 Harry Lime appears in Vienna (The Third Man)
The planet Krypton explodes (Superman)
Sonny Corleone assassinated in his car; his son Vincent Mancini born to his mistress after his death (The Godfather trilogy)
Gandhi assassinated (Gandhi)

1949 Victor Rizzi born, Don Vito's grandchild (The Godfather trilogy)
The roof of the licence-plate factory is re-tarred at Shawshank prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) first earns money playing jazz (Ray)

1950 The Shoebridges die in a house fire (Family Plot)
Korea - The Korean War begins (M*A*S*H)
Serial killer John Christie hanged (10 Rillington Place)
Ray Robinson becomes Ray Charles and begins recording songs (Ray)

1951 A blacklisted Hollywood writer moves to a small town (The Majestic)
Smallville, Kansas - Kal-El arrives from Krypton (Superman)
Laura Brown can't put down 'Mrs Dalloway' while planning her husband's birthday party (The Hours)
Michael Corleone marries college sweetheart Kay Adams, and their son Anthony is born (The Godfather trilogy)
Indiana - Norman Dale hired to coach Hickory Huskers basketball team (Hoosiers)

1952 The Quiet American in Saigon
Michael Corleone assumes control of family business interests (The Godfather trilogy)
Landsberg, Germany - Johnny Cash posted in the military (Walk The Line)
Senator Joseph McCarthy continues his witch-hunts (Walk The Line)
New York - Ray Kinsella born (Field of Dreams)
Ray Charles records Mess-Around (Ray)
Indiana - Hickory Huskers shock Muncie to win Indiana High School basketball title (Hoosiers)

1953 Mona Lisa Smile
Korea - The Korean War ends (M*A*S*H)
nr Smallville, Kansas - A spaceship crashes carrying a strange visitor from another world (Superman)
LAPD's 'Bloody Christmas'; 'My Funny Valentine' recorded by Chet Baker, and 'The Christmas Blues' by Dean Martin (L.A. Confidential, 1997)
Mary Corleone born (The Godfather trilogy)
October 14: CBS Studios - Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow begin to question Senator McCarthy's methods (Good Night, and Good Luck)
October 19: CBS Studios - Sig Mickelson convinced to run a story opposing Senator McCarthy's condemnation of Milo Radulovich (Good Night, and Good Luck)
October 20: CBS Studios - 10:30pm - Ed Murrow broadcasts news report claiming Milo Radulovich was wrongly accused of Communist tendencies (Good Night, and Good Luck)

1954 Ray
Don Vito Corleone dies while playing with his granddaughter; Carlo Rizzi dies and his son Michael Francis Rizzi is born (The Godfather)
Godzilla is discovered and destroys Tokyo, before being killed by an oxygen destroyer (Godzilla, King of the Monsters!)
New England - Messrs Peacock, Scarlet, White, Plum, Mustard & Green may have murdered My Boddy, a cook, a maid, a policeman, a chauffeur & a singing telegram (Clue, 1985)
March 9: Edward Murrow broadcasts report condemning Senator McCarthy's methods (Good Night, and Good Luck)
April 6: Senator McCarthy broadcasts his reply to Edward Murrow, accusing him of Communist leanings (Good Night, and Good Luck)
June: Squatney, London - Nigel Tufnel and David St Hubbins first meet, going on to form legendary rock band Spinal Tap (This Is Spinal Tap, 1984)
June 22: Christchurch, New Zealand - Teens Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother Honora (Heavenly Creatures)
November 24: Linda Porter dies, leaving Cole a widower who would rarely write again (De-Lovely)

1955 Michael Francis Rizzi born, during whose christening many enemies of the Corleones bite the dust, including Carlo Rizzi (The Godfather trilogy)
Murphy born (3000 Miles to Graceland)
Memphis, TN & Texarkana, TX - Johnny Cash meets June Carter on tour (Walk The Line)
November 5: Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley, from 1985; Doc Brown invents the flux capacitor when he slips off his toilet (Back To The Future)
November 12: The Enchantment Under The Sea Dance, a bit of a storm, and some time-travel (Back To The Future)
November 16: Marty McFly travels through time again, this time back to 1885 (Back To The Future II)
December 24: A young Frank Cross is given veal by his father as a Christmas present (Scrooged)

1956 While on tour, Johnny Cash kisses June Carter for the first time (Walk The Line)
August 16: Los Angeles - Bela Lugosi's dead... from a heart attack (Ed Wood, 1994)

1957 New Zealand - Lionel Pritchard and his girlfriend Paquita battle a horde of zombies (Braindead)
Camp Crystal Lake, New Jersey - Jason Voorhees drowns (Friday the 13th)
Michael Myers born (Hallowe'en)
The Iron Giant
October Sky

1958 David and Jennifer arrive in the fictional world of Pleasantville, and slowly change it from black-and=white to colour
Hitler actually dies, World War II actually ends (Hellboy)
Attempt on Michael Corleone's life; Tom Hagen takes temporary control of the Corleones (The Godfather trilogy)
Wheeling, WV - Johnny Cash duets with June Carter for the first time (Walk The Line)
March 23: Los Angeles - Sidney Barringer attempts suicide by jumping off his apartment, but is killed by a passing bullet fired by his mother 3 stories below (Magnolia)
March 26: In one timeline, Biff Tannen wins his first million on a horse race (Back To The Future Part II)
October 25: Radio-Television News Directors Association's Salute to Edward R Murrow (Good Night, and Good Luck)

1959 January 1: Cuba - Mob boss Michael Corleone flees when Fidel Castro takes power (The Godfather Part II)
January 1: Cuba - Soldier of fortune Robert Dapes flees when Fidel Castro takes power (Cuba)
January 1: Cuba - Gambler Jack Weil flees when Fidel Castro takes power (Havana)
January 1: Cuba - American teenager Katey Miller flees when Fidel Castro takes power (Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights)
Summer - Danny Zucko has fun with Sandy, down in the sand (Grease)
North By Northwest released seen by cinema-goers, including Shlomo and his father (Lucky Number Slevin)
Stand By Me
Truman Capote develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, a killer he's interviewing for his book In Cold Blood (Capote)
In one timeline, Biff Tannen named 'The Luckiest Man on Earth' (Back To The Future Part II)
Carmella Corleone and son Fredo die; Kay separates from Michael Corleone (The Godfather trilogy)
July: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' premieres (Ed Wood, 1994)

1960 Beyond The Sea makes the Top Ten (Beyond The Sea)
The world picks itself up after the ravaging of World War III, spawning the rise of Big Brother (1984)
Peggy Sue relives her high-school youth (Peggy Sue Got Married)

1961 Grease 2
Philadelphia - Eljah Prince, aka Mr Glass, born in a department store (Unbreakable)
K-19 The Widowmaker
At the American Association of Forensic Science awards dinner, Dr Donald Harper relates the tale of Sidney Barringer's suicide/murder in 1958 (Magnolia)
March 2: 7 MIB agents, an astronomer and a dumb kid who went down the wrong back road encounter aliens outside New York (Men In Black)

1962 Down With Love
Hairspray
Matinee
'How Important Can It Be?' recorded by Wanda Jackson (L.A. Confidential, 1997)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce (Batman)
Hong Kong - Chow Mu Wan and Zhen Su Li are jilted by their spouses, so grow closer to each other (In The Mood For Love)
Tennessee - Dean Vernon Wormer attempts to close down the Delta House Fraternity at Faber College (National Lampoon's Animal House)
Boston - The Boston Strangler begins reign of terror (The Boston Strangler)
Cuban Missile Crisis; a family goes into hiding (Thirteen Days, Blast From The Past)
September: Modesto, California - Bob Falfa loses a race to John Milner by wrecking his car; Steve and his teenage friends go their separate ways (American Graffiti, 1973)
November 9: Bridget Jones born (Bridget Jones's Diary)

1963 Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Integration of the University of Alabama (Forrest Gump)
Cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar meet and fall in love (Brokeback Mountain)
Charlie Babbit born (Rain Man)
Michael Myers murders his sister Judith and is committed to a mental asylum (Hallowe'en)
Dirty Dancing
JFK assassinated by... someone (JFK)
David Rhodes travels back in time to stop JFK's murder but is framed for it, and shot, or not, depending on the timeline (Running Against Time)
June: Upstate New York - Henry Hill helps bury mob captain Billy Batts, killed by Tommy Desimone and Jimmy Burke (Goodfellas)
December: Upstate New York - Tommy, Jimmy and Henry move Billy Batts' body when mob boss Paul Vario tells them they're building condos up there (Goodfellas)

1964 The human race dies out, as the fall-out from a nuclear holocaust ultimately reaches Australia (On The Beach)
Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan exchange correspondence (Walk The Line)
Boston - The Boston Strangler ends reign of terror (The Boston Strangler)
Goldfinger released in the cinema (Catch Me If You Can)
February 9: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1978)
February 9: New York - Tony Smerko is almost struck by lightning when he attempts to sabotage the transmitter on top of the CBS auditorium (I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1978)
October 15: Cole Porter dies (De-Lovely)
December 24: Jack Starks born (The Jacket)
December 31: Drag-racer John Milner is killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver (More American Graffiti)

1965 The earth's population - except Dr Robert Morgan - is turned into vampire zombies by unknown virus (The Last Man on Earth)
New York - Malcolm X shot
Las Vegas - June Carter performs with Johnny Cash and is shunned by his wife and family (Walk The Line)
Good Morning Vietnam
December 31: Near An Loc, Vietnam - Terry "Toad" Fields is declared missing in action after a booby-trapped latrine explodes (More American Graffiti)

1966 Texas Western coach Don Haskins leads the first all-black starting line-up college basketball team to the NCAA national championship (Glory Road)
Andy Dufresne escapes Shawshank prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
Nuclear war between USA and Cuba; a time machine arrives to witness an air-raid (The Time Machine, 1960) Chow Mu Wan assigned as a newspaper correspondent to Japan, then Singapore (In The Mood For Love)
Vietnam - David Rhodes' brother dies (Running Against Time)
Nashville - Johnny Cash tries to quit drugs and alcohol (Walk The Line)
Most of the Earth's population wiped out by a plague, after three decades of global warfate (Things To Come)
June: Rosemary (and Satan)'s baby is born (Rosemary's Baby)
August 18: London - Atomic satellite attack, George stops his time machine and speaks with David Filby's son James (The Time Machine, 1960)
December 24: Hong Kong - Chow Mu Wan has an encounter with his call-girl neighbour (2046)

1967 Quadrophenia
Austin Powers is frozen in time (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Spinal Tap perform Listen To The Flower People on US TV (This Is Spinal Tap, 1984)
Utah - At the Bonneville Salt Flats, Burt Munro sets the land-speed world record (The World's Fastest Indian)
An investigation begins into Chairman Bailey (Once Upon A Time In America)
April: Dr. Eddie Jessup enters an isolation tank for the first time as part of his ongoing research into sensory deprivation and schizophrenia (Altered States)
July 31: Resada, CA - Robert H "Bobby" Thompson Jr goes on a shooting rampage after killing his wife and mother, till he's subdued by horror film actor Byron Orlok (Targets)

1968 Richard Nixon at Republican Convention in Miami (Nixon)
Born On The Fourth of July
Hill Valley, Ca - Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker born (Back To The Future)
The Dreamers
Full Metal Jacket
January 13: Represa, CA - Johnny Cash performs at Fulsome Prison (Walk The Line)
February 14: Wimbledon, London - Lara Croft born (Tomb Raider)
February 22: Ontario, Canada - June Carter finally accepts Johnny Cash's marriage proposal, live on stage (Walk The Line)
November 10: Death of James Lister in the Bailey scandal, pushing Noodles out of retirement towards murder (Once Upon A Time In America)
December 24: Frank Cross meets Claire Phillips for the first time (Scrooged)

1969 Dr Evil steals Austin Powers' mojo and tries to destroy Washington with a laser on the moon, before going to 2003 (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
Vietnam - Murphy serves as a medic (3000 Miles to Graceland)
nr Brantford, New Hampshire - Alan Parrish digs up the 'Jumanji' board-game; begins playing with Sarah Whittle but mysteriously disappears (Jumanji)
Young William's sister leaves (Almost Famous)
nr Pittsburgh - A chemical spill at the VA hospital brings corpses to life (Return of the Living Dead)
August 15: Woodstock begins (Woodstock)
October 10: Aurora Borealis causes Frank Sullivan to talk to his son John in 1999 via a ham radio (Frequency)

1970 London - Edward Lionheart snubbed for the Critics' Circle Award, so attempts suicide (Theatre of Blood)
Johnny Cash and June Carter have a son, John (Walk The Line)
April 13: 10:06pm EST - "Houston, we have a problem..." - the Apollo 13 spacecraft starts losing oxygen in space (Apollo 13)
May: The George Baker Selection reach number 21 with 'Little Green Bag' (Reservoir Dogs)

1971 The film McMillan and Wife is released (Best In Show)
April: Las Vegas - Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo go on a drug-fuelled trip (Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas)
December 24: Frank Cross dumps Claire Phillips to pursue his career (Scrooged)

1972 China - Richard Nixon makes a state visit (Nixon)
J Edgar Hoover dies (Senior Trip)
Andes - A Uruguayan college rugby team's chartered airplane crashes deep in the icy mountains (Alive)
Munich - 11 Israeli athletes are killed at the Olympics by terrorists; a group of Mossad agents track down the Black September group responsible (Munich)
Elvis Presley is kidnapped by Johnny Wolfe while on tour, and is forced to get back in touch with his rock 'n' roll roots (Heartbreak Hotel, 1988)
Washington D.C. - Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover Watergate (All The President's Men)
London - Johnny Alucard raises Dracula from the dead (Dracula AD 1972)
Astronaut Landon graduates college, as 'the golden boy' (Planet of the Apes)
March 15: London - Actor Edward Lionheart comes out of retirement and murders critic George Maxwell (Theatre of Blood)
May: Richard Collier is given an old pocket-watch by an old woman who whispers "Come back to me" (Somewhere In Time, 1980)
December 31: New York - Forrest Gump celebrates New Year in New York (Forrest Gump)

1973 Bobby Darin dies (Beyond The Sea)
New York - Penny Lane becomes a regular on the tour bus (Almost Famous)
Las Vegas - Sam "Ace" Rothstein begins running a casino (Casino)
The Ice Storm
The Long Goodbye
Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed (Planet of the Apes)
March 15: George McFly wins a writing award (Back To The Future Part II)
June: Mossad debriefs a killer it may or may not have hired (Munich)

1974 My Girl 2
Baltimore - The Chesapeak Ripper terrorises locals (Red Dragon)
Feb 22: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
April: Stealer's Wheel reach no.5 with 'Stuck In The Middle With You' (Reservoir Dogs)
August 8: Brad Majors' car breaks down and he and Janet Weiss encounter alien beings in a large mansion (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate (Tremors 2)

1975 Carlito’s Way
The Amityville Horror
Starsky and Hutch team up to take down a drug dealer (Starsky & Hutch)
Will Graham captures Hannibal Lecter, and nearly dies in the process (Manhunter; Red Dragon)
Los Angeles - Austin Powers arrives at Studio 69 from 2003 to rescue his father from Goldmember (Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Flying from Washington to Los Angeles, Columbia Airlines Flight 409 is struck by a small prop plane (Airport 75)
March: The Earth's population - except Dr Robert Neville - is killed or turned into mutants by biological warfare between Russia and China (The Omega Man)
April 17: Year Zero for Cambodia, as Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh (The Killing Fields)
September 21: Forrest Gump receives a letter from Apple Computer, amid his shrimping attempts (Forrest Gump)
November 27: Rocky Balboa goes ice-skating on his first date with Adrian (Rocky)

1976 January 4: Rocky Balboa shocks the boxing world by lasting 15 rounds with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed - though Creed wins (Rocky)
King Kong is again discovered on Skull Island and let loose - again - on New York City (King Kong, 1976)
Israeli officer Avner is debriefed by Mossad (Munich)
Rocky Balboa marries Adrian and they have s son, Robert "Rocky" Jr (Rocky II)
Summer - Dazed and Confused
July 8: Hannibal Lecter savages a nurse during a medical examination (Red Dragon)
September 8: Howard The Duck arrives on Earth (Howard The Duck)
November 25: Philadelphia - Rocky Balboa knocks out Apollo Creed in the 15th round in their rematch (Rocky II)
November 26: The Band perform their last concert together (The Last Waltz)

1977 Summer of Sam
Chicago - Harry Burns meets Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally, 1989)
Elvis Presley dies; Groucho Marx dies three days later (The Devil's Rejects)
Flight 23 crashes into the Bermuda Triangle (Airport 77)

1978 Donnie Brasco
Atlantic City - Gambling legalised (Atlantic City)
Metropolis - Superman appears for the first time (Superman)
You say 'tomato', I say 'tomato'... Murderous tomatoes attack an American community (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes)
Texas - Local and county police engage in a large gun battle with the murderous Firefly family (The Devil's Rejects)
Taxi begins on US TV (Man on the Moon)
FBI agent and criminal profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to hunt an elusive serial killer, enlisting the help of Hannibal Lecktor (Manhunter; Red Dragon)
New York - Michael Corleone's investiture (The Godfather trilogy)
January: London - The funeral of Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams (Chariots of Fire)
January 8: Superbowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys is interrupted by a terrorist attempt involving the hijacked Goodyear blimp (Black Sunday)
July 4: David Scott Freeman falls from a tree, and seemingly jumps through time (Flight of the Navigator)
July 4: Forrest Gump celebrates Independence Day at his home with Jenny Curran (Forrest Gump)
October 31: Haddonfield, Illinois - Michael Myers murders a-plenty, and may or may not die himself (Hallowe'en)

1979 Manhattan
Michael Corleone forges financial links with the Vatican; his daughter Mary is murdered leaving the Palermo Opera House (The Godfather Part III)
Rocky Balboa loses the heavyweight title to Clubber Lang, only to win it back in a hasty rematch; his son Rocky Jr somehow ages twice as fast as he should (Rocky III)
Wankhede stadium - India play Pakistan at cricket (Namak Halaal)
Aqueduct Racetrack, New York - A rigged horse-race fails when the would-be winner collapses (Lucky Number Slevin)
Dr Kevin Harrison tries to blow up Concorde to stop TV reporter Maggie Whelan exposing his illegal weapons deal (The Concorde: Airport 79)
Newborn baby Christine York is patronised by Satanists as the devil's future bride (End of Days)
Jack The Ripper is let loose on San Franciscan women (Time After Time)
August 9: Chicago, IL - Jake and Elwood Blues successfully pay the tax bill for the St Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage (The Blues Brothers, 1980)
December 7: New York - Meteorites wreck the city, and others (Meteor)

1980 Air passengers are trapped after the pilot, co-pilot and navigator pass out due to poisoned food (Airplane)
USS Nimitz disappears through a temporal vortex, manifesting itself as a storm (The Final Countdown)
Richard Collier hypnotises himself in an attempt to travel back in time (Somewhere In Time, 1980)
February 22: US Men's Hockey team of amateur and collegiate players beats USSR no.1 team, is dubbed the 'Miracle On Ice' and goes on to win Olympic gold (Miracle)
May 18: Manchester, England - Joy Division singer Ian Curtis found hanged from apparent suicide in his flat, aged 26 (24 Hour Party People)

1981 Lew Hayward dies of a heart attack while playing golf (Scrooged)
Summer: Wet Hot American Summer
December 25: Soviet Union - Rocky Balboa defeats Ivan Drago, who was already killed Apollo Creed, in an exhibition boxing match (Rocky IV)
December 31: Manhattan - 200 Cigarettes

1982 Vote to ban Andy Kaufman from Saturday Night Live (Man on the Moon)
Rocky Balboa loses his fortune and moves back to his lower class Philadelphia neighborhood, where he trains upcoming fighter Tommy Gunn and manages him through 22 victories in one year (Rocky V)
Evan Treborn is born, or in one timeline, deliberately strangles himself in the womb (The Butterfly Effect)
March 22: Jenny Curran dies (Forrest Gump)

1983 A space virus kills every dog and cat on Earth (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Jack Twist dies (Brokeback Mountain)
Memphis - Hannibal Lecter escapes, via a spot of murder (The Silence of the Lambs)
May 22: Doc Brown commended/committed, depending on the timeline (Back To The Future Part II)
June: The Reno Gazette reports that scuba diver Delmer Darion died when scooped up from a lake by a fire-fighting plane to extinguish a house-fire (Magnolia)

1984 Russians invade the US (Red Dawn)
British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 70s rocker Brian Slade (Velvet Goldmine)
Student Todd Bowden recognises Kurt Dussander, an old man living in his home town, as being a hunted Nazi (Apt Pupil)
Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler and Peter Venkman form the Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters)
Gremlins on the loose (Gremlins)
Jenson vs Eveleth Mines lawsuit is fought, the first major successful sexual harassment case (North Country)
Ray Finkle added to Miami Dolphins roster mid-season; fired after shooting the kick that makes the Dolphins lose the Superbowl (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
The first T-800 Terminator arrives from the future to kill Sarah Conner; Kyle Reese follows him to help Sarah (Terminator)
A wormhole time opened from 1942 (The Philadelphia Experiment)
Andy Kaufman dies (Man on the Moon)
March 24: John Bender, Claire Standish, Allison Reynolds, Brian Johnson and Andrew Clark become friends after a day in detention (The Breakfast Club)
April 4: Winston Smith begins keeping a diary, charting his rebellion against Big Brother (1984)
May 12: Winston Smith writes in his diary: "Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows." (1984)
July 3: A chemical spill at Uneeda Medical Supply results in the re-animation of corpses into flesh-eating zombies (Return of the Living Dead)
Autumn: Joel Goodson, U-Boat commander and dealer of human fulfillment, enters the Princeton School of Business (Risky Business)

1985 Peggy Sue goes to the Buchanan Class of 1960 Reunion (Peggy Sue Got Married)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce (Batman Begins)
The Gathering occurs (Highlander)
Future freedom fighter Evey born (V for Vendetta)
The Wedding Singer
February: Future saviour John Connor born (Terminator)
May: A small Wall Street broker called Bud Fox is taken under the wing of the ruthless and greedy broker Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
October 26: Einstein the dog travels through time (BTTF)
October 27: 11am – The Delorean time machine makes it last arrival, then is destroyed

1986 David Scott Freeman appears, having skipped the past 8 years of his life (Flight of the Navigator)
Robot Number Johnny Five gains human qualities after a lightning strike (Short Circuit)
New York - Connor MacLeod kills the Kurgan, winning the prize (Highlander)
San Francisco - A Klingon Bird of Prey carrying the crew of the Enterprise procures three humpback whales (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Studio 54 closes its doors (54)
Martin Blank and Debi Newberry graduate high school at Grosse Pointe (Grosse Pointe Blank)

1987 Brenda MacLeod is killed in a car accident (Highlander III: The Sorcerer)
NASA launches the last "deep space" probe, containing Capt William "Buck" Rogers; due to a mishap he is frozen and returned to Earth 500 years later (Buck Rogers)
Jerry Lundegaard asks Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud to kidnap his wife - and they murder 3 people (Fargo)
Predator
December: Riggs and Murtaugh are paired together for the first time, as they uncover a drug-smuggling operation (Lethal Weapon)

1988 Bill & Ted meet Rufus for the first time, and begin to travel through time
Gary Gaines leads his school football team to the Texas state semifinals (Friday Night Lights)
A doll called Chucky wreaks a bit of havoc (Childs Play)
New York - Manhattan is declared a maximum security prison (Escape from New York, 1981)
Nuclear war causes a fascist regime to take control of England (V For Vendetta)
Seattle - 11 yr old hacker "Zero Cool" banned from using a computer for crashing 1507 systems in one day, causing a 7pt drop in the New York Stock Exchange (Hackers)
Jason Robert Wise born (Final Destination 3)
October 2: Donnie Darko is visited by a giant bunny rabbit, who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds (Donnie Darko)
October 6: Donnie Darko floods his school (Donnie Darko)
October 29: Hallowe'en party at the Darko's (Donnie Darko)
October 30: Donnie Darko's alternate universe ends (Donnie Darko)
December 25: Frank Cross is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas (Scrooged)

1989 Aileen Wuornos meets Selby (Monster)
Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell dies aged 45 (54)
Evan Treborn experiences blackouts (The Butterfly Effect)
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow sixth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
February 24: Twin Peaks - Laura Palmer is killed (Twin Peaks)
July: Jordan Tate is crowned Miss July '89 (Under Siege)
August: off Costa Rica - Dr John Hammond creates an amusement park of genetically-engineered dinosaurs (Jurassic Park)
December: New York - Maureen Johnson protests at losing her performance space (Rent)
December 31: New York - The Titanic arrives, finally (Ghostbusters II)

1990 James Cole appears from the future – he is locked in a mental hospital (Twelve Monkeys)
Angel Dumott Schunard dies of AIDS (Rent)
New York - A new generation of Gremlins take control of some media offices (Gremlins 2: The New Batch)
Perfection, Nevada - Graboid worms terrorise locals (Tremors)
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow seventh-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
July 31: Harry Potter born (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
December: Mark Cohen finishes his film, and Roger Davis finishes his song (Rent)

1991 Bill & Ted are killed by evil robot versions of themselves (Bill & Ted)
Fishing troller The Andrea Gail from Gloucester, Massachusetts is caught in violent storm after two weeks at sea (The Perfect Storm)
Iraq - Jack Starks suffers a near-fatal head injury while serving in The Gulf (The Jacket)
The House of Sand & Fog
California - Revolution between humans and enslaved apes (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Spy Game
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow eighth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
September 11: Los Angeles - Jeffrey Lebowski writes a cheque for 69 cents to pay for some milk at Ralph's Supermarket (The Big Lebowski)
October 31: Voldemort tries to kill Harry Potter after murdering his parents & resultantly loses physical form. Hagrid rescues baby Harry from Godric's Hollow (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

1992 Jack Starks dies (The Jacket)
Buffy Summers is chosen as the one and only Vampire Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
New York - Jacob Kell destroys Connor MacLeod's apartment, killing Connor's friend Rachel and causing Connor to retreat into The Sanctuary (Highlander: Endgame)
Lethal Weapon 3; Dark Blue; Brassed Off
New York - Strickler's disease first diagnosed (Mimic)
California - Nuclear war ravages the west coast (Battle for the Planet of the Apes)
January 12: HAL 9000, Artificial Intelligence Computer System, becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow freshman Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
December 26: Jack Starks comes round and realises he must stop his own death within a few days (The Jacket)

1993 Erin Brockovich
Waynestock (Wayne's World II)
Highway 666 - Mickey and Mallory Knox go on a killing spree and become mass-murderer superstars (Natural Born Killers)
Colombia - A volcanic eruption kills Harry Dalton's girlfriend Marianne (Dante's Peak)
January 1: Jack Starks dies from a head injury, apparently (The Jacket)
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow sophomore Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
May 1: Stoke Clandon, Somerset - Angus & Laura's wedding at St John's Church, where Charles meets Carrie (Four Weddings & A Funeral)
August: Cripplegate, London - Bernard & Lydia's wedding at St Mary of the Fields, where Charles elopes with Carrie (Four Weddings & A Funeral)
September: Charles receives Carrie's wedding invite, hears her list of sexual partners, and declares his love on the South Bank (Four Weddings & A Funeral)
October: Glenchrist Castle, Perthshire - Hamish & Carrie's wedding, where Gareth suffers a heart attack (Four Weddings & A Funeral)

1994 Helen Tasker discovers her husband is a secret agent, and eventually joins him (True Lies)
Time Enforcement Commission formed to regulate time-travel; Max Walker's wife dies, or she doesn't & Senator McComb disappears, depending on the timeline (Timecop)
Egyptologist Daniel Jackson manages to activate the Stargate; the Abydos people are freed when the alien Ra is killed by the Earth expedition (Stargate)
New York - Dr Susan Tyler creates the Judas Breed of cockroaches, to wipe out the diseased roaches (Mimic)
Before Sunrise
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow high school junior Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
August: Smithfield, London - Charles & Duckface's ill-fated wedding at St Julian's church; Charles and Carrie stand in some rain (Four Weddings & A Funeral)
October: Burkittesville, MD - Three media studies students go missing in search of the Blair Witch
December: New Jersey - Ollie Trinke introduces Gertrude Steiney to his dad and conceives Gertie (Jersey Girl)
Christmas: Alan Parrish hires Judy and Peter's father for the Parrish Shoe Factory - in one timeline (Jumanji)

1995 Peter Sarsgaard’s lover’s death becomes the subject of a film (The Dying Gaul)
Burkittesville, MD - A video camera containing footage filmed by missing film students is found (The Blair Witch Project)
Four kids, Evan, Kayleigh, Tommy and Lenny, go off the rails, or on the rails, depending on the timeline (The Butterfly Effect)
Nick Leeson causes a financial meltdown (Rogue Trader)
Eminem raps his way to victory (8 Mile)
Judy and Peter join the 'Jumanji' board-game started 26 years earlier by Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle (Jumanji)
T-1000 arrives from the future to kill John Connor, now protected by a reprogrammed T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Shadaloo, South East Asia - Street Fighter
New York - Dade Murphy and his hacker friends thwart Eugene "The Plague" Belford's virus, avoiding worldwide ecological disaster (Hackers)
January 1: Bridget Jones meets Mark Darcy at Una & Geoffrey Alconbury's New Year's Day Turkey Curry Buffet (Bridget Jones's Diary)
February 14: New Jersey - Chris Brander sends fellow high school senior Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses (Just Friends)
Summer: New Jersey - At their graduation, Chris Brander asks Jamie Palamino to be more than just friends (Just Friends)
August: New York - Gertie Trinke born, and her mother Gertrude dies in childbirth (Jersey Girl)
November 5: Lewisham, London - Bridget Jones falls down a fireman's pole onto a camera (Bridget Jones's Diary)
November 9: 138lb, cigarettes 3... Bridget Jones's 33rd birthday, plus someone else's in a restaurant, disturbed by a fight between Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver (Bridget Jones's Diary)
December 25: 140lb+2 mince pies... Bridget Jones's parents reunite; Mark Darcy announces his engagement to Natasha Glenville (Bridget Jones's Diary)

1996 Veronica Guerin
Behind Enemy Lines
Griff Tannen born (Back To The Future Part II)
Ex-Titanic passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, known for decades as Rose Dawson and, by her married name, Rose Calvert, dies on a ship in the north Atlantic (Titanic)
5 billion people wiped out by disease; James Cole arrives from 2035 to gather information about the virus (Twelve Monkeys)
Genetic superman Khan Noonien Singh and a group of his genetically-engineered followers leave Earth in SS Botany Bay (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Todd born and immediately selected to be trained as a soldier (Soldier)
Mass-murderer Simon Phoenix is captured by John Spartan, and both are cryogenically frozen when hostages die in the capture (Demolition Man)
Martin Blank attends his high-school reunion, is reunited with Debi Newberry, and foils his own murder for not joining an assassin's union (Grosse Pointe Blank)
Airline mogul Tom Mullen refuses to pay ransom on his son's kidnap (Ransom)
May: Mexico - Graboid worms reappear (Tremors 2)
Early June: New York - Ollie Trinke ruins his career at an auction of Will Smith memorabilia (Jersey Girl)
June 25: Independence Day opens in cinemas (Jersey Girl)
July 26: Phenomenon
December 12: James Cole witnesses his future self shot in an airport, and a life-threatening virus is released (Twelve Monkeys)

1997 August 29: Machines destroy the Earth, or they don’t (Terminator 2)
Austin Powers is defrosted (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Agents J and K foil an intergalactic plot and prevent the destruction of the Earth (Men In Black)
Washington - Dante's Peak erupts (Dante's Peak)
Los Angeles - A volcano erupts (Volcano)
Los Angeles - An alien hunter threatens the city (Predator 2)
Ned Devine wins £6,894,620 on the lottery, and dies from the shock (Waking Ned, 1998)
Adam Webber leaves his family’s shelter for the first time (Blast From The Past)
Don Michael Corleone dies (The Godfather trilogy)
New York - Narrowly avoiding the twin towers, the US President's plane crash-lands in Manhattan, now a top-security prison (Escape From New York)
August 4: Skynet goes online (The Terminator, 1984)
August 29: Skynet becomes self-aware, and destroys human civilisation (The Terminator, 1984)
November 5: Westminster, London - Terrorist 'V' appears for the first time (V For Vendetta)

1998 The Human Stain
New York - Godzilla goes on the rampage (Godzilla)
Childs Play 3
Bride of Chucky
Marty McFly Jr born (Back To The Future Part II)
Dallas - Federal building bombed (The X Files)
Stephen Glass is exposed as a fraud who fabricated half of his articles at the New Republic (Shattered Glass)
Shakespeare In Love released in cinemas, and an audience kills someone who talks too loud during it (Scary Movie)
Senator Jay Billington Bulworth has a breakdown during his re-election campaign and starts telling the truth in rap and verse; he's voted back in (Bulworth)
September 14: Viagra is introduced, and comedy writers everywhere rejoice (Something's Gotta Give)

1999 Virtuosity
Neo fights agents controlling the Matrix (The Matrix)
Robot teachers are placed in schools with unruly students (Class of 1999)
A basketball coach benches his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record (Coach Carter)
Tyler Durden and Project Mayhem blow up the HQs of the world's largest credit companies (Fight Club)
Discovering his wife is a fembot, Austin Powers follows Dr Evil to 1969 and returns with Felicity Shagwell (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
The Killaks turn the Earth's monsters against mankind, but are foiled by Moonlight SY3 (Destroy All Monsters)
August: An artificial shield protects the earth as the ozone layer disintegrates, causing permanent night (Highlander)
October 10: Aurora Borealis causes John Sullivan to talk to his father Frank in 1969 via a ham radio (Frequency)
December 31: Lenny Nero has a tough Millennium Eve, thanks to a snuff tape (Strange Days)
December 31: The Devil in human form searches for his bride and tries to end the world before 11pm (End of Days)
December 31: Hong Kong - Virginia Baker and Robert MacDougal steal $8 billion thanks to the Millennium Bug (Entrapment)

2000 A scientist encounters sinister robot Maria (Metropolis)
Pedestrians are run down for points in a brutal cross-country race (Deathrace 2000)
Major population boom (Soylent Green)
Fun With Dick and Jane
September 13: Contact with the first angel, Adam, causes worldwide flooding; wars break out and approx half the world's population dies (End of Evangelion)

2001 April 12: 08:43 ET - A 2nd monolith is found on the moon (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Royal Tenenbaum dies (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Tremors 3
Jurassic Park III
Ron Santo, a former All-Star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, has his right leg amputated (The Old Cub)
Private Joe Bowers is hibernated for 1000 years by the American government as an experiment (Idiocracy)
New York: Publisher Clarissa Vaughn plans an award party for her author friend who's dying of AIDS (The Hours)
September 11: Shanksville, Pennsylvania - Flight 93 crashes after passengers foil the terrorist plot (Flight 93)

2002 Aileen Wuornos executed for killing seven men (Monster)
Monty Brogan enters prison on a seven-year sentence for drug-dealing (25th Hour, 2002)
Evan Treborn, a student, loses Kayleigh in various ways in different timelines (The Butterfly Effect)
Prosperity, Arizona - Giant spiders attack the town (Eight Legged Freaks)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, suggesting something more frightening to come... (Signs)
Austin Powers captures Dr Evil in Hollywood, and also arrives back from 1975 with Foxy Cleopatra to save the world (Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Ron Santo, a former All-Star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, has his left leg amputated as a result of his battle against diabetes (The Old Cub)
New Jersey - Ollie Trinke meets Maya, and has to choose between his career and his daughter's school show (Jersey Girl)
September 1: Harry Potter starts first year at Hogwarts (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

2003 Friday June 13: Gigantic monolith found in orbit near Jupiter's moon Io (2001: A Space Odyssey)

2004 Texas - A chainsaw massacre occurs similar to the one in 1979 (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Rasputin returns to destroy the world using Hellboy (Hellboy)
Zombies attack London but are found defenseless against cricket bats and spades (Shaun of the Dead)
Napoleon Dynamite does a dance routine in front of the school assembly during the presidential elections (Napoleon Dynamite)
Max Walker brings Lyle Atwood from 1924 to sentence him, or Max returns to find TEC shut down, or Max returns to find his wife alive, timeline-dependent (Timecop)
Major global warming cause a swift second ice age (The Day After Tomorrow)
July 24: Judgement Day. Again. Or not. (Terminator 3)
October 3: Satellites belonging to Weyland industries detect a heat bloom in Antarctica (Alien vs Predator)
October 10: A team discovers predators and aliens at the Antarctic (Alien vs Predator)

2005 Unicron attempts to devour the planet Cybertron, but is thwarted by the Autobots, under the leadership of Rodimus Prime (Transformers: The Movie)
Summer: A rollercoaster crashes at a theme park, killing everyone on it, and, eventually, those who got off it (Final Destination 3)
August 12: New York - Dalton Russell leads a bank robbery on Manhattan Trust Bank (Inside Man)
December 24: New Jersey - Chris, Jamie, Dusty and Chris's mum see The Notebook in the cinema (Just Friends)

PRESENT DAY, APPARENTLY...

2006 Dolphins leave the Earth, then the Earth is destroyed (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Bicentennial Man

THE FUTURE...

2007 December 24: Jack Starks meets a grown-up Jackie, who tells him he's meant to be dead (The Jacket)

2008 July 4: Los Angeles - A major heatwave strikes as the city reaches the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster (Southland Tales)
Jason Voorhees is captured (Jason X)

2009 Gangster Christian sets about eliminating his rival gangs (24 Hours in London)

2010 Thunderbirds
Freejack
Jason Voorhees' attempted execution - he escapes and is cryogenically frozen (Jason X)
Dr Heywood Floyd heads to Jupiter to discover The Discovery and reactivate HAL-9000 (2010)
Humans create humanoid drone robots with artificial intelligence to fill jobs as construction workers and servants (The Matrix trilogy)

2011 99% of the Earth's population is taken out by a virus; the survivors are placed under the care of Dr Goodchild, who found a cure (Aeon Flux)

2012 Fairview Falls B-movie actor Peter Jacobs investigates the truth behind the Black Rose Killer, who killed his wife and son (Sins of the Father)
November 6: The United States elects a female president (Back To The Future Part II)

2013 The Postman
Los Angeles - Snake Plissken tries to escape (Escape From L.A.)

2014 November 5: London - The Old Bailey is blown up by V (V for Vendetta)
November 6: London - British media reports that the Old Bailey was razed in order to make room for a new structure (V for Vendetta)

2015 London - The corrupt Houses of Parliament fall victim to a terrorist attack (V for Vendetta)
October 21: Chicago Cubs win World Series for the first time since 1908, and Marty, Jennifer and Doc arrive from 1985 (Back To The Future Part II)

2016 Escape From Mars

2017 The Running Man gameshow is set up (The Running Man)
Steel Harbor - Barbara Kopetski hunts some bounty, as the fascist American Congress brings the Second Civil War on itself (Barb Wire)

2018 John and Karen Brennick are imprisoned for attempting to have a second baby (Fortress)
Jonathan E leads Houston to victory over New York in the World Rollerball Championships (Rollerball, 1975)

2019 Ben Richards, Amber Mendez, William Laughlin and Harold Weiss must survive a TV execution gauntlet/game show to win their freedom (The Running Man)
Humans are created as insurance for the rich, using their DNA (The Island)
Tokyo - A boy in a motorcycle gang receives corrupt power from an ultimate source called Akira, amid rioting turmoil (Akira)
November: Ex-LA cop Rick Deckard chases renegade Nexus-6 replicants, who have murdered creators from the Tyrrell Corporation (Blade Runner)

2020 Dragons invade London (Reign of Fire)
BattleQueen 2020 (2001)

2021 A data courier carries the cure for Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS), with which half the world's population is infected (Johnny Mnemonic)
Kyle Reese joins the human resistance (The Terminator)

2022 Soylent Green is People!

2024 The ozone layer reforms, and Connor MacLeod battles to remove the artificial shield protecting the earth (Highlander II: The Quickening)
A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for sex and food (A Boy and His Dog, 1972)

2025 Ghosts of Mars
John and Karen Brennick are re-imprisoned and attempt to re-escape (Fortress 2)
Futuresport

2026 Metropolis

2028 NEB Corporation controls mining operations throughout the known solar systems (Screamers)

2029 Pericles, a chimpanzee, disappears into a magnetic storm in space; Leo Davison follows him (Planet of the Apes)
In the time of major war, Reese is sent back in time to help save the humans from the machines (The Terminator)

2030 Alexander Hartdegen visits the Fifth Avenue Library Information Unit (The Time Machine)

2031 Giant humanoid warriors begin the first Space War (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?)
March: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2032 T-850 sent back to 1997 (Terminator)
Simon Phoenix escapes cryofacility during release hearing; SAPD thaws John Spartan to capture Phoenix (Demolition Man)
Innocence: Ghost In The Shell
July 4: John Connor killed by a T-850 (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

2033 October 28: The T-850 that killed John Connor is captured and reprogrammed, then sent back to 2004 (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

2035 Robots go bad; Del Spooner puts them right (I, Robot, 2004)
James Cole sent back to 1996 to find information about the disease that wiped out 5 billion people (Twelve Monkeys)
Soldier

2036 First spaceship to the moon launched - ie. the whole Neil Armstrong, that didn't happen (Things To Come)

2037 The moon is destroyed (The Time Machine)

2040 Caesar the ape dies (Battle for the Planet of the Apes)
Deep space vessel Event Horizon sent to test an artificial wormhole (Event Horizon)

2046 Doom
The last year before Chinese control over Hong Kong changes; and a place where lost memories can be recaptured (2046)
Neptune - The lost ship Event Horizon is discovered in low orbit (Event Horizon)

2050 Newspeak eclipses Oldspeak (1984)

2054 Minority Report

2055 Time-travellers return from a prehistoric safari hunt to discover they've destroyed the future - in at least in one timeline, anyway (A Sound of Thunder)

2057 Red Planet

2058 Planet Sirius 6B - Berynium is discovered and ends Earth's energy crisis (Screamers)
September 30: Jupiter 2 is launched with the Robinson family, Major Don West and Dr Smith, when the HyperGate's construction is attacked (Lost In Space)

2063 April 4: The Enterprise arrives from 2373 to prevent the Borg murder of Zephram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive (Star Trek: First Contact)
April 5: Humans make their first contact with the Vulcans (Star Trek: First Contact)

2065 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2068 "The Alliance" demand an end to Berynium-mining to stop lethal doses of radiation and pollution, causing NEB Corporation to declare war (Screamers)

2069 USA - The Nebuchadnezzar transport ship, later to be captained by Morpheus, is constructed (The Matrix trilogy)

2072 Equilibrium

2075 AI programs evolve and some robots begin to resent their human overlords (The Matrix trilogy)

2077 The first case of a machine rising up against its owners, as butler robot B166ER slaughters two humans, leading to a backlash against AI (The Matrix trilogy)

2078 Survivors of the Alliance/NEB war face a newly self-evolved AI that wishes to end human existence (Screamers)

2079 May 5: Ronald Brent born (Return to the Planet of the Apes)

2080 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Middle East - Robots establish Zero One community, after anti-machine rioting pushes them out of major cities (The Matrix trilogy)

2084 Mars develops an atmosphere thanks to ancient technology hidden deep within the planet, so Douglas Quaid visits (Total Recall, 1990)


2085 Middle East - Zero One robot community thrives and creates superior vehicles, computers and weaponry to wipe out many human nations (The Matrix trilogy)

2096 UN officials refuse to acknowledge robot civilisation Zero One as a sovereign nation, causing a trade blockade and then war (The Matrix trilogy)

2097 Zero One robot community survives a nuclear attack, and retaliates against humans (The Matrix trilogy)

2098 Human military leaders try to block the sun to prevent robots gaining energy; the plan backfires and the atmosphere is destroyed (The Matrix trilogy)

2099 Machines take over human armies and try to harness human bio-electricity to replace the sun's energy (The Matrix trilogy)

2100 Machines create the Matrix, a dream-like world set in 1999, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries (The Matrix trilogy)

2105 'The One' learns he can manipulate the Matrix world through thought, and escapes to the underground human stronghold of Zion (The Matrix trilogy)

2109 Colonel Ronald Brent disappears on a space mission (Return to the Planet of the Apes)

2122 The Nostromo answers a distress call on planet LV-426 to devastating consequences (Alien)

2145 Doom

2150 The Earth is invaded by Daleks (Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD)

2161 Morpheus born in a Matrix womb, freed in childhood (The Matrix trilogy)

2167 Trinity born in a Matrix womb, freed in early childhood (The Matrix trilogy)

2174 Miles Monroe is defrosted (Sleeper)

2175 The Oracle prophesies that Morpheus will discover the second coming of The One (The Matrix trilogy)

2179 Ellen Ripley is woken from hypersleep as Earth loses contact with a colony on alien planet LV-426 (Aliens)

2199 Trinity and Morpheus discover Neo in the Matrix and free him by battling Agent Smith, a program designed to rid humans who detect its flaws (The Matrix trilogy)

2201 The Osiris, another human rebellion ship, discovers machines drilling through the Earth above Zion; Neo encounters the Architect (The Matrix trilogy)

2257 Forbidden Planet

2263 The Fifth Element

2271 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

2274 Logan's Run

2285 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

2286 The crew of the Enterprise return from 1986 with three humpback whales (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

2287 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

2293 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Zardoz

2371 Star Trek: Generations

2373 The Enterprise travels back to 2063 to stop the Borg murder of Zephram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive (Star Trek: First Contact)

2375 Star Trek: Insurrection

2379 Star Trek: Nemesis

2411 Aeon Flux is set to assassinate Dr Goodchild, the leader of Bregna, the last city of Earth (Aeon Flux)

2419 Buck Rogers

2455 Jason X

2517 Serenity

2688 In San Dimas, Rufus travels back in time to help Bill & Ted (Bill & Ted)

2691 De Nomolos introduces an Evil Bill & Ted to San Dimas, before sending them back in time (Bill & Ted)

3000 Tyler leaves his desolate home high in the Rocky Mountains and takes a final courageous stand against the Psychlos (Battlefield Earth, 2000)

3001 Private Joe Bowers awakes from 1000 years in hibernation to discover a world of idiots (Idiocracy)

3028 The Earth is destroyed, sending the remaining humans scattering across the galaxy (Titan AE)

3044 Titan A.E.

3460 Colonel Ron Brent arrives from 2109 and meets a tribe of primitive humans (Return to the Planet of the Apes)

3955 There's a planet, full of apes, looking suspiciously familiar... George Taylor detonates a bomb and destroys Earth (Planet of the Apes; Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

4001 The oceans freeze over, mankind becomes extinct and other intelligent life emerges (AI: Artificial Intelligence)

10,191 House Atreides takes over stewardship of planet Arrakis, under a plot by Shaddam IV, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood (Dune)

10,193 Paul Atreides Muad'Dib becomes Emperor of the Known Universe after defeating the Empire; he causes it to rain (Dune)

40,000 Barbarella takes on the evil, er, Duran Duran (Barbarella)

802,701 October 12: George meets the Eloi and the Morlocks, is tended by Weena, following a long stretch of time travel (The Time Machine, 1960)
Alexander Hartdegen meets the Eloi and the Morlocks, is tended by Mara, following a long stretch of time travel (The Time Machine, 2002)

2,008,000 Wizards Blackwolf and Avatar battle for the fate of the post-apocalyptic Earth (Wizards)

30,000,000 Earth frozen by an eclipse, intelligent life wiped out, day and night now the same (The Time Machine)

865,427,810 Alexander Hartdegen briefly arrives from 802,701 (The Time Machine)







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[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I read to 1900.

Damn those Predators.

[Feather]

someone has way too much time on thier hands

[cheapprick]

Wow. Just wow.

[cjules13]

Awesome...!

[fleecy]

my eyeballs are bleeding....

[Auggie2k]

How long did it take you to format that thing. Damn Krell nice work, funny as hell.

Although, I don't understand that expression, isn't hell meant to be a very bad thing?

Oh right, I forgot... it's funny watching people getting hurt. Eureka!

[Krell]

How long did it take you to format that thing. Damn Krell nice work, funny as hell.

Although, I don't understand that expression, isn't hell meant to be a very bad thing?

Oh right, I forgot... it's funny watching people getting hurt. Eureka!

Be sure to tell Spooky that



.

[Tresmius]

Awesome, looks like it was removed from the original url, you've kept it alive :)

[HelenaP]

I read to 1900.

Damn those Predators.

I read to 1804 (the 48th Alien vs Predator).
Yes. D*mn them.

[ratcat]

Hep !

Some quality movies in there

[yossk]

I read to 1900.

Damn those Predators.

both races (aliens and predator too) flooding our history badly :icon_scra
anyway I like this timeline it will help me to get deeper into the history of everything

did someone count how many movies are mentioned?

[thepuzzler]

Personally I found it a waste of my two-finger scroll capability. But each to their own.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

As was scrolling down to your post.

[Signa]

wow, that list was like 10X more awesome than it was comprehensive. though they messed up with the dates of idiocracy. its supposed to be 2505 that he ends up in, and im pretty sure that it was 2005 that he started in, not 2001-3001 as the list says.

[AlanBadger]

hi,
:icon_thum As was scrolling down to your post. Looks like it was removed from the original url, you've kept it alive

[YWD67]

hi,
:icon_thum As was scrolling down to your post. Looks like it was removed from the original url, you've kept it alive

Fuck you and your malware site dickless.

[Feather]

i just stumbled this thread.
while i am here why is that link still there and he not banned

[YWD67]

How is that? Put the correct url address on the post as well.

[1cooldude]

Fuck you and your malware site dickless.


you forgot fat handed twat.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQyxGTjZi2I)