Ned Kelly by Alice

By oakleighssyr7
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    Timespan

  • Convicts arrive in Australia.

    These convicts were sent to Australia for crimes they had commited in Britain. At that time it was called transportation.

  • Freesettlers arrive in Australia

    They arrived in Australia with the promise of being given land, tools, some rations and a few convicts to work on their land.

  • Squatting becomes legal

    Land opened up and settlers started moving further out. They used crown land to farm and graze on without permission. Those settlers were called squatters. When sqatting became lagal they had to pay a fee to use the land.

  • Ned's father is transported from Ireland.

    Ned's father, Red Kelly, is transported from Ireland.

  • Australia becomes a penal settlement.

    The penal settlement was made up of Britisk colonies in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania (formaly known as Van Dieman's Land). At this time gold was dicovered in Victoria and was the start of the goldrush.

  • Ned is born.

    Ned was born in December.

  • Ned rescues a boy

    The boy was drowning so Ned saved him.

  • Ned's father dies

    Ned's father dies in the same year that Ned rescued the boy.

  • Ned's first brush with the law

    It was Ned's first brush with the law at age twelve.

  • Ned becomes Harry Power's apprentice

    Harry Power was a bushranger.

  • Ned's first jail sentence.

    His jail sentence was for violent assualt.
    Enters jail: November 1870 (age 15 or 16)
    Leaves jail: March 1871

  • Ned's second jail sentence.

    His second jail was for recieving a stolen horse. In the same year that Ned was release from jail for hid first sentence.
    Enters jail: August 1871
    Leaves jail: February 1874

  • Ned's honest years

    From 1874-1877 Ned wasn't trouble from the law. These were his honest years.

  • Ned stealing with stepfather George King.

    Ned and George King steal cattle.

  • The Fitzpatrick Affair

  • Ned's mother is jailed

    Ned's mother, Ellen Kelly, is jailed.

  • The shootings at Stringybark Creek

  • The Kelly Gang are declared outlaws.

  • The Kelly gang rob a bank.

    The bank was in Euroa.

  • Ned writes the Cameron Letter.

  • The Kelly Gang rob another Bank.

    This time the bank was inJerilderie.

  • Ned writes the Jerilderie letter.

  • The reward for the Kelly Gang is raised.

    The reward was 8000 euros dead or alive.

  • Joe Bryne shoots Aaron Sherritt dead.

  • The Kelly GAng's last stand

    Their last stand was at Glenrowan Inn. Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and steve Hart were killed.

  • Ned is sentenced to death.

  • Ned is hanged

    He was hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol.