Edward 'Ned' Kelly was born in Canadia, north of Melbourne, in the then British colony of Victoria. The actual date is not known because the birth was not registered on the government list of births, deaths, and marriages in Victoria. His prison records give the date as 1856.

Kelly was the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household.

In 1877 Kelly shot and injured a policeman who was trying to arrest his brother, Dan Kelly, for horse theft. The Kelly gang’s perpetration of a series of daring robberies in the Victoria–New South Wales borderland (1878–80) captured the imagination of the public. Some viewed Ned Kelly as a personification of the plight of workers set against large landowners in an economically depressed period.

In June 1880, after several police shootings and robberies, the gang took possession of Glenrowan township, where they were besieged by police. Kelly was wounded and captured in the ensuing fray; his fellow gang members were killed. Later that year he was taken to Melbourne jail, where he was hanged on 11 November 1880.

Kelly was the most famous of the bushrangers or Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century and he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armor (as partially shown in the picture due to space constraints) during his final shootout with the police.

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