28 July

Plague postpones the opening of Parliament to 5 November.

Gunpowder Plot Executed

Thirty-six barrels of powder under the House of Lords, an anonymous letter, and a man called 'John Johnson' with a lantern: the plot behind Bonfire Night.

Her body is recovered from the Hudson River near Sybil's Cave, Hoboken.

Mary Rogers Unsolved

In 1841 New York's 'beautiful cigar girl' was found dead in the Hudson. Her death was never solved, and it gave Edgar Allan Poe a detective story.

Pritchard is hanged in public at Glasgow Green, the last public execution in the city.

Dr Edward Pritchard Executed

A Glasgow doctor poisoned his wife and her mother while nursing them, and in 1865 became the last man hanged in public in the city.

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning the First World War.

Franz Ferdinand Assassination Convicted

A wrong turn, a stalled engine and a nineteen-year-old with a pistol: how Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.