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Billy`s Birth
Billy`s birth name was Henry McCarty -
Billy`s mother gets married
Cathrrine McCarty gets married to William Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico -
Billy`s Mother dies
Catherine McCarty dies of tuberculosis -
Billy gets arrested
Billy gets arrested for stealing cloths in Silver city. -
Billy`s First victim
Billy kills Windy Cahill. In fall of the same year, William Bonney arrives in Lincoln County, New Mexico -
William gets hired
William Bonney hired as cowboy by John H. Tunstall and Alexander McSween -
Tunstall killed
Tunstall killed by men working for Lawrence G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan. That same month, Pro-Tunstall workers form a small army called "The Regulators" -
Murphy-Dolan men killed
The Regulators kill three Murphy-Dolan men -
Sheriff killed
The Regulators kill Sheriff William Brady and one of his deputies in Lincoln -
Andrew Roberts killed
The Regulators kill Andrew "Buckshot" Roberts, a Murphy-Dolan man, at Blazer`s Mill, New Mexico -
Billy gets indicted
Billy the Kid and others are indicted for the murder of William Brady -
Bttle at Lincoln
The Regulators and Murphy-Dolan forces battle in Lincoln. During the battle, McSween was killed. The battle went from July 15 to July 19 -
Governor of New Mexico
President Ruthford B. Hayes appoints General Lew Wallace governor of New Mexico Territory -
Billy`s Life style
Billy makes a living stealing horses and gambling -
Pat Garret as sheriff
Pat Garrett is elected sheriff -
Billy vs Deputy James
Billy and several of his friends battle a posse under Deputy James Carlyle. In the battle, Carlyle is killed -
Billy`s bounty
Governor Wallace offers reward for capture of Billy -
Billy`s ally killed
Tom O`Folliard, ally of Billy, is killed by Pat Garrett`s posse -
Billy gets captured
Garrett captures Billy at Stinking Springs, New Mexico -
Billy gets convicted
In a court in Mesilla, New Mexico, convicts Billy of murder. He is sentenced to hang -
Billy`s escape
Billy escapes from Lincoln County Courthouse -
Billy`s death
Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in Maxwell house at Fort Sumner, New Mexico