1800s

A list of events in the 1800s related to serial killers.

1800[]

? — George Carawan is born.
? — Mary Ann Geering is born.

1802[]

? — Jean-Christophe Marchal is born.

1803[]

February 28 — Thomas Williams is born.
June 3 — Giorgio Orsolano is born.
? — Sophie Ursinus is apprehended.

1804[]

February 8 — Wiley Harpe died.
? — Joseph Clémot is born.

1805[]

? — Françoise Chamblas is born.

1806[]

April 23 — Hiroemon died.

1807[]

May 8 — Johann Oberreiter is born.
May 17 — Rebecca Smith is born.

1808[]

May 19 — Andreas Bichel is apprehended.
? — John Brown and Richard Lemon are apprehended.
? — Mary Bateman is apprehended.
? — John Brown died.
? — Richard Lemon died.

1809[]

March 20 — Mary Bateman died.
May 2 — Isaac Heller is born.
June 9 — Andreas Bichel died.
July 9 — Sarah Chesham is born.
November 18 — Manuel Blanco Romasanta is born.
? — Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut is born.

1810[]

June 22 — Martin Dumollard is born.
? — Diogo Alves is born.
? — Rose Theyre is born.

1811[]

? — Hester Rebecca Nepping is apprehended.

1812[]

June 15 — Hester Rebecca Nepping died.
? — Jean-Claude Jacquemard is born.
? — John Lynch is born (c.).

1813[]

? — Marie-Louise Geoffroy is born.

1814[]

January 26 — Michael Moore is born.

1815[]

May 2 — Gesche Margarethe Timm is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.
May 10 — Johanna Gottfried is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.
May 18 — Adelheid Gottfried is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.
June 28 — Johann Timm is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.

1816[]

June 1 — Johann Timm is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.

1817[]

? — Ane Nielsdatter is apprehended.

1819[]

? — Sarah Dazley is born.
? — Ane Nielsdatter died.
? — Edward H. Rulloff is born.

1820[]

February 18 — Lavinia Fisher died.

1821[]

17 — Juan Díaz de Garayo is born.
? — Lambert Geoffroy is born.

1822[]

January 16 — John Thomas died.
April 25 — Samuel Green died.
? — John Thomas is apprehended.
? — Isaac L. Wood is born.

1823[]

June 1 — Paul Thomas Zimmermann is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.

1824[]

August 6 — William Palmer is born.
December 24 — Lydia Sherman is born.
? — Andreas Hall is born (c.).

1825[]

December 6 — Edward William Pritchard is born apprehended.
? — Thomas Jeffries is apprehended.

1826[]

May 4 — Thomas Jeffries died.
July 31 — Juhani Aataminpoika is born.
? — Felipe Espinosa is born (c.).

1827[]

May 13 — Elise Schmidt is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.
May 15 — Beta Schmidt is murdered by Gesche Gottfried.

1828[]

March 6 — Gesche Gottfried is apprehended.
November 1 — William Burke and William Hare ("The Burke and Hare murders") are apprehended.
December 5 — Charles Routley is apprehended.
? — Heinrich Götti is born.

1829[]

January 28 — William Burke died.
May 11 — Patty Cannon died.
October 20 — Ane Cathrine Andersdatter is born.
December 24 — John Franklin Gilman is born.
? — Catherine Flannagan is born.
? — Joseph Riaud is born.

1830[]

September 17 — Charles Routley died.

1831[]

April 21 — Gesche Gottfried died.
April 23 — Thomas Andrew Williamson is born.
November 8 — John Bishop and Thomas Williams ("London Burkers") are apprehended.
December 5 — John Bishop died.
December 5 — Thomas Williams died.

1832[]

August 16 — Nancy Staffleback is born.
September 22 — Anna Forrestadstuen died.
September 22 — Marit Forrestadstuen died.
October 31 — Mary Ann Cotton is born.
? — Sophie Bouyon is born.
? — Anna Forrestadstuen is apprehended.
? — Marit Forrestadstuen is apprehended.
? — Louis-Joseph Philippe is born.

1833[]

? — Henery Gravelin is born.

1834[]

? — Joseph Eisele is born.

1835[]

March 13 — Giorgio Orsolano is apprehended.
March 17 — Giorgio Orsolano died.
? — Margaret Waters is born.

1836[]

April 4 — Sophie Ursinus died.
April 25 — Isaac Heller died.
? — Olga Briscorn died.
? — Samuel Calhoun is born.
? — Isaac Heller is apprehended.
? — Mary Jackson is born.
? — Marie Jeanneret is born.

1837[]

August 13 — Sadakichi Shimizu is born.
? — Jean Aumaître is apprehended.
? — "Seine-Maritime Killers" (Toussaint Fournier, François Fournier, Nicolas Fournier, Napoléon Godry and Sophie Godry) are apprehended.
? — Thomas Griffiths Wainewright is apprehended.

1838[]

February 7 — Jean Aumaître died.
June 13 — "Seine-Maritime Killers" (Toussaint Fournier, François Fournier, Nicolas Fournier, Napoléon Godry and Sophie Godry) are executed by guillotine.
? — Joseph Clémot is apprehended.
? — Sarah Jane Robinson is born.

1839[]

July 11 — Joseph Clémot died.
September 9 — Maria Swanenburg is born.

1840[]

? — Robert Francis Burns is born (c.).
? — Françoise Chamblas is apprehended.
? — Francisco Guerrero Pérez is born.
? — Marie Pierre is born.
? — Juan Severino Mallari died.

1841[]

February 19 — Diogo Alves died.
August 19 — Philippe Dutartre died.
? — Philippe Dutartre is apprehended.

1842[]

February 25 — John Lynch is apprehended.
April 22 — John Lynch died.
? — Sarah Dazley is apprehended.

1843[]

August 5 — Sarah Dazley died.
? — Andrew Hellman is apprehended.
? — Margaret Higgins is born.

1844[]

? — Andrew Hellman died.
? — Antonie Richard is born.
? — Angles Snell is born.

1845[]

February 14 — John Makin is born.
September 16 — Matti Haapoja is born.
December 20 — Sarah Makin is born.

1846[]

March 6 — Thomas D. Carr is born.
April 20 — Jonathan Balls died.
? — Hendrikje Doelen is apprehended.
? — Rose Theyre is apprehended.

1847[]

May 15 — Samuel Herbert Dougal is born.
August 17 — Thomas Griffiths Wainewright died.
December 10 — Hendrikje Doelen died.
? — Mary Ann Britland is born.
? — Mary Lucas is born.
? — Albert Smidt is born (c.).

1848[]

February 2 — Frederick Jahns is born.
May 26 — Sarah Whiteling is born.
July 7 — Andreas Hall is apprehended.

1849[]

February 11 — Hugo Schenk is born.
March 15 — Andreas Hall died.
April 22 — Thomas W. Piper is born.
June 12 — Albert Pel is born.
August 21 — Mary Ann Geering died.
August 23 — Rebecca Smith died.
November 20 — Juhani Aataminpoika is apprehended.
December 7 — Delphine LaLaurie died.
? — Eugene Butler is born.
? — Mary Ann Geering is apprehended.
? — Rebecca Smith is apprehended.

1850[]

May 27 — Thomas Neill Cream is born.
? — Joseph Briggen is born (c.).
? — Sarah Chesham is apprehended.
? — Jean-Claude Jacquemard is apprehended.
? — William Kunnecke is born.

1851[]

February 8 — Jean-Claude Jacquemard died.
March 25 — Sarah Chesham died.
March 25 — Mária Gerzsány is born.
? — Robert Butler is born.
? — Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut is apprehended.

1852[]

August 23 — Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut died.

1853[]

April 25 — Augustus Johnson is born.
June 9 — Claus Blixt is born.
July 1 — Elisabeth Wiese is born.
November 30 — George Carawan died.
? — Joseph Brassell is born.
? — George Carawan is apprehended.
? — Jean-Christophe Marchal is apprehended.

1854[]

March 31 — Jane Toppan is born.
October 6 — Jean-Christophe Marchal died.
? — Juhani Aataminpoika died.
? — Mustapha Ould Mohamed ben Bahi is born.
? — Willis Brown is born.
? — Felipe Espinosa marries Maria Secundida Hurtado.
? — Cayetano Grossi is born.

1855[]

February 7 — Edward Bates Soper is born.
December 18 — George Brassell is born.
? — Johann Otto Hoch is born.

1856[]

March 18 — Samuel D. Richards is born.
June 14 — William Palmer died.
September 8 — Marie-Louise Geoffroy died.
? — Elizabeth Berry is born.
? — Ralph Brydges is born.
? — Lambert Geoffroy is apprehended.
? — Marie-Louise Geoffroy is apprehended.

1857[]

January ? — Isaac L. Wood is apprehended.
? — Josef Englich is born.

1858[]

July 9 — Isaac L. Wood died.

1859[]

July 20 — Anna Przygodda is born.
November 29 — Jesse Pomeroy is born.
? — William Hare died.
? — Frederick Hollman is born.
? — Mary Jackson is apprehended.

1860[]

February 12 — Karl Denke is born.
February 26 — Antonio Boggia is apprehended.
? — Frank Henry Burness is born.
? — Dennis Dilda is born.
? — Poral Stefoff is born.

1861[]

March 30 — Ane Cathrine Andersdatter is apprehended.
May 16 — H. H. Holmes is born.
June 2 — Martin Dumollard is apprehended.
December 21 — Ane Cathrine Andersdatter died.
? — Frank Butler is born.
? — Mary Jackson is apprehended.

1862[]

February 5 — Samuel Calhoun died.
April 8 — Antonio Boggia died.
? — Johann Berchtold is born.
? — Dorothee Buntrock is born.
? — Eugene Byars is born.
? — Samuel Calhoun is apprehended.

1863[]

February 16 — Mary Clement is born.
March 8 — Mary Cowan is born.
April 9 — Martha Needle is born.
December 13 — Carl Großmann is born.
December 14 — Manuel Blanco Romasanta died.
? — Felipe Espinosa died.
? — Mary Jackson disappeared (c.).
? — János Rumpf is born.

1864[]

17 — John Dickman is born.
? — Antonio Nardello is born.
? — Johann Oberreiter is apprehended.
? — José Ramos is apprehended.

1865[]

May 10 — Heinrich Götti died.
July 26 — Johann Oberreiter died.
July 28 — Edward William Pritchard died.
October 29 — J. Frank Hickey is born.
December 14 — George Chapman is born.
? — Daniel Andreas is born.
? — François-Onésime Baillet is born.
? — Charles Barré is born.
? — Heinrich Götti is apprehended.
? — Edward William Pritchard is apprehended.

1866[]

July 24 — Louis-Joseph Philippe died.
August 10 — James Gordy is born.
? — Louis-Joseph Philippe is apprehended.

1867[]

April 29 — Emile Dubois is born.
December 4 — Emil Schutte is born.
December 18 — Linda Hazzard is born.
? — John Wesley Robinson is born.

1868[]

April 7 — Herman Billik is born.
June 23 — Henry Colin Campbell is born.
July ? — Louise Vermilya is born.
October 7 — Polly Bartlett is apprehended.
October 7 — Polly Bartlett died.
November 10 — Frances Knorr is born.
? — Marie Jeanneret is apprehended.
? — Enriqueta Martí is born.
? — Shige Sakakura is born.

1869[]

January 14 — Minnie Wallace Walkup is born.
January 22 — Thomas D. Carr is apprehended.
April 12 — Henri Désiré Landru is born.
November 16 — Joseph Vacher is born.

1870[]

March 6 — Adolf Seefeldt is born.
March 24 — Thomas D. Carr died.
May 19 — Albert Fish is born.
October 11 — Margaret Waters died.
? — Vitor Nikolić is born.
? — Edward H. Rulloff is apprehended.

1871[]

January 11 — John Kizer is born.
May 18 — Edward H. Rulloff died.
July 3 — James P. Watson is born.
? — José Augusto do Amaral is born.
? — Albert Burrows is born.
? — Jean-Marie Caër is born.
? — Walter Horsford is born.

1872[]

January 11 — George Joseph Smith is born.
March 24 — Monroe Betterton is born.
June 7 — Lydia Sherman is apprehended.
July 18 — Mary Ann Cotton is apprehended.
November 29 — Michael Moore died.
? — Ryuun Daimai is born.
? — Michael Moore is apprehended.

1873[]

March 24 — Mary Ann Cotton died.
October 31 — Amy Archer-Gilligan is born.
? — Anna Cunningham is born.

1874[]

April 24 — Jesse Pomeroy is apprehended.
October 7 — Jeanne Weber is born.
December 10 — William Coffey is born.
? — Enrico Ballor is born.
? — Henry Lee Moore is born.
? — Marie Pierre is apprehended.

1875[]

August 3 — Joseph Riaud is apprehended.
? — Martha Kristine Andresen is born.
? — Sophie Bouyon is apprehended.
? — George Brassell is apprehended.
? — Joseph Brassell is apprehended.
? — Herbert Copeland is born.
? — Ada Williams is born.

1876[]

January 4 — Sophie Bouyon died.
January 8 — Joseph Riaud died.
May 24 — Hilda Nilsson is born.
May 26 — Thomas W. Piper died.
July 4 — Helmuth Schmidt is born.
July 15 — Alva Nordberg is born.
? — Wilhelm Blume is born.
? — Henery Gravelin is apprehended.
? — Fred Hardy is born.
? — Augustus Johnson is apprehended.

1877[]

? — Katsutaro Baba is born.
? — Béla Kiss is born (c.).

1878[]

March 15 — Augustus Johnson died.
March 27 — George and Joseph Brassell died.
May 16 — Lydia Sherman died.
December 20 — Samuel D. Richards is apprehended.
? — Baptistine Philip is apprehended.

1879[]

March 14 — Henery Gravelin died.
April 26 — Samuel D. Richards died.
July 14 — Marie Becker is born.
October 25 — Fritz Haarmann is born.
? — Yegor Bashkatov is born.

1880[]

September 20 — Louise Peete is born.
October 28 — Thomas Ley is born.
? — Pierre Basson is born.
? — Robert George Clements is born.
? — Petros Koulaxidis is born.
? — Otokosaburo Noguchi is born.

1881[]

May 11 — Juan Díaz de Garayo died.
? — Frank Carter is born (c.).
? — Shinkichi Sakurada is born.
? — Hans Schmidt is born.

1882[]

February 23 — Viktória Fődi is born.
? — Sokrat Kirshveng is born.
? — Józefa Paśnik is born.

1883[]

February 16 — Mary Clement is born.
May 26 — Peter Kürten is born.
June 20 — Emma Heppermann is born.
April 18 — Martha Wise is born.
August 16 — Ah Young died.
September 25 — Robert Francis Burns died.
December ? — Maria Swanenburg is apprehended.
? — Ah Young is apprehended.
? — Robert Anderson is born.
? — Mustapha Ould Mohamed ben Bahi is apprehended.
? — Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins are apprehended.
? — Rose Veres is born.

1884[]

January 10 — Hugo Schenk is apprehended.
March 13 — Mustapha Ould Mohamed ben Bahi died.
April 22 — Hugo Schenk died.
June — Mary Clement is apprehended.
July 17 — Albert Pel is apprehended.
? — Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins died.
? — Gaston Guyot is born.
? — Marie Jeanneret died.
? — Euphemia Mondich is born.

1885[]

December 24 — Elmer Helm is born.
? — Ahmad Ahmadi is born.
? — Dennis Dilda is apprehended.
? — Josef Englich is apprehended.
? — Agnus McVee died.
? — Stanimir Ristić-Mladenović is born.
? — John Siemsen is born.

1886[]

February 10 — Dennis Dilda died.
February 12 — Josef Englich died.
April 2 — Johann Mayer is born.
March ? — Elizabeth Hannah Britland is murdered by Mary Ann Britland.
May 3 — Thomas Britland is murdered by Mary Ann Britland.
May 14 — Mary Dixon is murdered by Mary Ann Britland.
May 28 — Antonio Nardello died.
June 1 — Daisy de Melker is born.
July 29 — Antonio Nardello is apprehended.
July ? — Mary Ann Britland is apprehended.
August 9 — Mary Ann Britland died.
August 12 — Sarah Jane Robinson is apprehended.
December 3 — Sadakichi Shimizu is apprehended.
? — Elizabeth Berry is apprehended.
? — Harriet Ann Stevens is apprehended.

1887[]

March 14 — Elizabeth Berry is apprehended.
April 23 — Dagmar Overbye is born.
September 18 — William Burkitt is born.
? — Eddie Adams is born.
? — Mary E. Hartman is born.
? — Szczepan Paśnik is born.
? — Marcus Powell is born.
? — Sadakichi Shimizu died
? — Sava Vujačić is apprehended.
? — Sava Vujačić died.

1888[]

January 4 — William Kelly, Kate Kelly, William Kelly Jr. and Kit Kelly are apprehended.
January 4 — William Kelly died.
January 4 — Kate Kelly died.
January 4 — William Kelly Jr. died.
January 4 — Kit Kelly died.
March 12 — Alfred Leonard Cline is born.
April 3 — "Jack the Ripper"'s suspected victim, Emma Elizabeth Smith, is found.
April 24 — Bertha Whiteling is murdered by Sarah Whiteling.
May 26 — Willie Whiteling is murdered by Sarah Whiteling.
? — Caroline Grills is born (c.).

1889[]

June 11 — Mary Elizabeth Wilson is born.
September 4 — Ramiro Artieda is born.
September ? — Louis Dabner is born.

1890[]

November 18 — Albert Smidt died.
? — François-Onésime Baillet is apprehended.
? — Boonpeng is born.
? — Matti Haapoja is apprehended.
? — Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón is born.
? — Antoinette Scieri is born.
? — Thomas Andrew Williamson is apprehended.

1891[]

April 24 — Carrie Brown is possibly murdered by "Jack the Ripper" (suspected victim).
June 28 — Carl Panzram is born.
August 28 — François-Onésime Baillet died.
November 20 — Stephen Kiyoshk is born.
? — Lyda Ambrose is born (allegedly).
? — Fritz Edel is born.
? — Ellen Etheridge is born.
? — Talton Hall is apprehended.

1892[]

January 8 — Fritz Erbe and Dorothee Buntrock are apprehended.
February 14 — Noah Arnold is born.
May 5 — George Frank Sack is born.
May 23 — Frederick Deeming died.
June 3 — Thomas Neill Cream is apprehended.
September 2 — Talton Hall died.
October 16 — Lyda Southard is born.
? — Mathias Kindlinger is born.
? — John Makin and Sarah Makin are apprehended.
? — Guadalupe Martínez de Bejarano is apprehended.

1893[]

May 24 — Fritz Erbe and Dorothee Buntrock died.
July 20 — Gusztáv Léderer is born.
August 15 — John Makin died.
November 17 — Harry F. Powers is born.
? — Ali Asghar Borujerdi is born.
? — Santiago Garduno is born.
? — T. J. Hampton is apprehended.
? — Henry Meyer is apprehended.
? — José Ramos died.

1894[]

January 15 — Frances Knorr died.
March 6 — Major Lisenba is born.
April 18 — Leonarda Cianciulli is born.
May 15 — Louis Juncken is murdered by Martha Needle.
June 22 — Anna Hauptreif is born.
October 22 — Martha Needle died.
? — Clementine Barnabet is born.
? — Eugene Byars is apprehended.
? — Mary Cowan is apprehended.
? — H. H. Holmes is apprehended.

1895[]

January 8 — Matti Haapoja died.
February 8 — Eugene Byars died.
February 8 — John Franklin Gilman died.
May 26 — Israel Dunham is murdered by Jane Toppan.
November 2 — Ansis Kaupēns is born.
? — Claus Blixt is apprehended.

1896[]

January 7 — Joe Ball is born.
February 21 — Johann Berchtold is apprehended.
April 3 — Amelia Dyer is apprehended.
April 27 — Carl Feigenbaum died.
May 7 — H. H. Holmes died.
August 15 — Marie Besnard is born.
October 31 — Cayetano Santos Godino is born.
November 2 — Bice Carrara is born.
? — Frank Butler is apprehended.
? — Charles Clément is born.
? — Stanisław Zboński is born.

1897[]

January 17 — Marcel Petiot is born.
February 5 — Miyuki Ishikawa is born.
May 12 — Earle Nelson is born.
May 14 — Frederick Hollman died.
June 10 — Edward Bates Soper is apprehended.
June 11 — James Gordy died.
June ? — Antonie Richard is apprehended.
July 19 — Frank Butler died.
August 4 — Joseph Vacher is apprehended.
? — Ada Bilbrey is born.
? — James Gordy is apprehended.
? — Frederick Hollman is apprehended.
? — Gizella Young is born.

1898[]

January 7 — Antonie Richard died.
January 11 — William Peach Young is born.
January 14 — Edgar Smoak is born.
February 24 — František Novotný is died.
June 28 — Walter Horsford died.
July 1 — Euzebe Vidrine is born.
September 17 — Mary Cowan died.
December 31 — Joseph Vacher died.
? — Walter Horsford is apprehended.
? — František Novotný is apprehended.

1899[]

January 21 — John Bodkin Adams is born.
March 30 — Edward Bates Soper died.
April 8 — John Christie is born.
December 12 — Arnold Sodeman is born.
? — Jean-Marie Caër is apprehended.
? — Lillie Mae Curtis is born.
? — John Franklin Gilman is apprehended.
? — Ada Williams is apprehended.
? — Lila Gladys Young is born.

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