15 April

Lincoln dies at 7:22 a.m. in the Petersen house; Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president that morning.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

Booth and Herold reach Samuel Mudd's farm before dawn and have Booth's leg set.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

Constable Fitzpatrick is wounded at the Kelly house near Greta; Ned and Dan Kelly flee into the bush.

Ned Kelly Executed

Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.

Parmenter and Berardelli are shot during the Slater and Morrill payroll robbery in South Braintree.

Sacco and Vanzetti Disputed verdict

Two Italian anarchists executed in 1927 for a Braintree payroll robbery and double murder. Their guilt is still argued; their unfair trial is not.