November 5, 1831 — Nat Turner sentenced to death
In August 1831, guided by visions sent from God (or so he claimed), black slave Nat Turner led a rebellion...
January 14, 2021
Crime & Law
January 1, 1863 — Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Although a legendary milestone in the long fight for racial equality in the United States of America, the Emancipation Proclamation...
October 19, 2020
November 11, 1869 — “An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria” is presented to the Victorian Parliament
The first legal attempt to codify the treatment of Australia’s indigenous peoples was largely an attempt to give the government...
September 19, 2020
May 14, 1870 — Michael Davitt is arrested for treason
Michael Davitt was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in the year 1846, during the worst of the Great Famine (known...
September 14, 2020
October 10, 1871 — The Great Chicago Fire is extinguished
The Great Chicago Fire was not, despite early reports, started by Catherine O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern – the...
September 9, 2020
December 19, 1877 — Michael Davitt is released from prison
Michael Davitt was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a revolutionary movement that espoused armed uprising as the...
August 24, 2020
June 28, 1880 — Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan
By the time Ned Kelly was finally brought down by the police, not long after dawn on the 28th of...
August 9, 2020
October 28, 1880 — Ned Kelly is sentenced to death
Despite his long list of charges, Ned Kelly was convicted of only one capital crime: the murder of Constable Lonigan...
August 4, 2020
August 31, 1888 — Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper
He wasn’t the first serial killer, but he was one of the earliest of what we now recognise as the...
June 24, 2020
October 15, 1888 — The “From Hell” letter is mailed
More than a century after the fact, debate regarding nearly every particular of the Jack the Ripper slayings still rages....
June 19, 2020
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