10 December

Bonnet is hanged at White Point, Charles Town.

Stede Bonnet Executed

A rich Barbados planter bought a ship, hired a crew and went pirating in 1717. Eighteen months later Charles Town hanged him, despite his pleas.

A coroner's jury sits on the Marr deaths.

Ratcliff Highway murders Disputed verdict

Seven people killed in two East London households twelve days apart in 1811. The suspect hanged himself before trial, and doubts have outlived him.

Tester returns from Sweden and surrenders to the Lord Mayor of London.

Great Gold Robbery of 1855 Convicted

In May 1855 four men emptied the bullion safes on the London-to-Folkestone night train and refilled them with lead shot. Nobody noticed until Paris.

The gang robs the National Bank at Euroa, holding hostages at Younghusband Station.

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.