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Portrait of Dan Kelly
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Accomplice

Dan Kelly

Born
1 June 1861
Died
28 June 1880, aged about 19
Record
Wikidata Q3306628 · Wikipedia

Accomplice in Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang

Ned's younger brother; died in the Glenrowan Inn.

1878–1880 · North-eastern Victoria and Jerilderie, New South Wales · 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. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Edward Kelly is born at Beveridge, Victoria, by the usual estimate.

  2. Constable Fitzpatrick is wounded at the Kelly house near Greta; Ned and Dan Kelly flee into the bush.

  3. Ellen Kelly is convicted as an accessory and later sentenced to three years' hard labour.

  4. The gang robs the Bank of New South Wales at Jerilderie; Kelly leaves the Jerilderie Letter.

  5. The siege of the Glenrowan Inn: Ned Kelly is captured in his armour, Byrne, Dan Kelly and Hart die, and the inn is burned.

  6. Kelly is convicted of Lonigan's murder in Melbourne and sentenced to death by Sir Redmond Barry.

  7. Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

  8. Kelly's identified remains are buried at Greta Cemetery.