Event Types: Crime

Ann Bonny and Mary Read were convicted of piracy at a court of Vice Admiralty held at St. Jago de la Vega in the island of Jamaica.

Outlaw Belle Starr was killed when an unknown killer fatally wounded the infamous “Bandit Queen” with two shotgun blasts from behind.

Prohibitionist Carry Nation smashes up the bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, causing several thousand dollars in damage and landing in jail. Nation, who was released shortly after […]

On December 26, 1609 or 1610 (sources are inconclusive), Count Gyorgy Thurzo visited Csejthe Castle in Hungary on orders from King Matthias and discovered Countess Elizabeth Bathory directing a torture […]