12 February

Abigail Simpson is killed, the only murder for which Burke later gave an exact date.

Burke and Hare Executed

Two Irish labourers killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 and sold the bodies to an anatomy lecturer. Only one of them hanged.

Voigt is released after serving a fifteen-year sentence for attempted burglary.

Captain of Köpenick Convicted

In 1906 an unemployed shoemaker in a second-hand captain's uniform commandeered a squad of soldiers, arrested a mayor and walked off with the town's cash.