Perpetrator
Ned Kelly
- Born
- December 1854
- Died
- 11 November 1880, aged about 26
- Record
- Wikidata Q301816 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang
Leader of the Kelly gang; convicted of the murder of Constable Lonigan and hanged at Melbourne Gaol. Birth month is the usual estimate; some records point to 1855.
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
Edward Kelly is born at Beveridge, Victoria, by the usual estimate.
Constable Fitzpatrick is wounded at the Kelly house near Greta; Ned and Dan Kelly flee into the bush.
Ellen Kelly is convicted as an accessory and later sentenced to three years' hard labour.
The gang robs the Bank of New South Wales at Jerilderie; Kelly leaves the Jerilderie Letter.
The siege of the Glenrowan Inn: Ned Kelly is captured in his armour, Byrne, Dan Kelly and Hart die, and the inn is burned.
Kelly is convicted of Lonigan's murder in Melbourne and sentenced to death by Sir Redmond Barry.
Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Kelly's identified remains are buried at Greta Cemetery.