7 August

Elizabeth Báthory is born at Nyírbátor in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Elizabeth Báthory Disputed verdict

Hundreds of witnesses accused a Hungarian countess of killing young women. She was walled up without trial in 1610. Was it justice or a political purge?

Corder's trial opens at the Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds.

Maria Marten and William Corder Executed

A Suffolk molecatcher's daughter left home in men's clothes to elope in 1827. Eleven months later her father dug her up from the floor of the Red Barn.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle is born in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Mata Hari Executed

France shot the famous dancer as a German spy in 1917. She took money from both sides; whether she gave either anything of value is still argued.

The jury finds her guilty and Mr Justice Stephen sentences her to death.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.