5 February

HMS Swallow captures the Ranger off Cape Lopez.

Bartholomew Roberts Killed before trial

A Welsh mate forced into piracy took hundreds of ships in under three years. A broadside off Gabon in 1722 ended him, and 52 of his men were hanged.

Hare is released and smuggled out of Edinburgh on the Dumfries mail coach.

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.