26 October

Gilles, Henriet and Poitou are hanged and burned at Nantes.

Gilles de Rais Executed

A Marshal of France who fought beside Joan of Arc was hanged at Nantes in 1440 for murdering children. Can his confession be trusted?

Lord Monteagle receives an anonymous letter warning him to avoid Parliament and takes it to Salisbury.

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.

Both are convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

Frederick and Maria Manning Executed

In 1849 a Swiss lady's maid and her husband buried their dinner guest under the kitchen floor, then each tried to cheat the other of his fortune.

The gang kills Constables Lonigan and Scanlan and Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek.

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.

Virgil Earp pistol-whips and arrests an armed Ike Clanton; Wyatt Earp strikes Tom McLaury in the street.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

In the afternoon gunfight beside Fly's studio, Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury are killed.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

Voigt is arrested in Berlin after a former cellmate tips off the police.

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.

Oswald Martin falls ill after tea at Armstrong's house.

Herbert Rowse Armstrong Executed

'Excuse fingers': a Hay-on-Wye solicitor handed his rival a buttered scone, and the arsenic trail led back to his wife's grave.