The Victorian City · event 1 of 7

1828

Burke and Hare. Sixteen murders committed to supply bodies to the anatomist Robert Knox. Burke is hanged before 25,000 people and publicly dissected; the Anatomy Act follows in 1832.

The The Victorian City era

  1. 1828
  2. 1836
  3. 1846
  4. 1847
  5. 1861
  6. 1890
  7. 1920

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