7 December

Timothy, Celia and baby Timothy Marr and apprentice James Gowan are killed at 29 Ratcliff Highway shortly before midnight.

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.

MacGregor himself is taken to La Force prison.

Gregor MacGregor and Poyais Acquitted

Gregor MacGregor sold bonds, land and passage to Poyais, a Central American country that did not exist. Most of the settlers who sailed there died.

The robbery of the Daviess County Savings Association at Gallatin, in which cashier John Sheets is killed, first makes Jesse James a public figure.

Jesse James Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour.