1844

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June. First shipment of horses left for India.

First execution of a white person. John Gavin tried 3 April and sentenced to be hanged and suspended in chains, which sentence carried out 6 April.

References and Links

Hutchison, David 2007, Many Years a Thief, Wakefield Press. [novel about John Gavin]

Freotopia

This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1844.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.