1671: Thomas Blood, an Irishman, makes an attempt to rob the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1676: Highwayman John Nevison travels 200 miles (320 km) by bicycle in a single day across England in an effort to create a plausible deniability.
1716–18: Pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach robs ships off the American East Coast and in the Caribbean.
1827–28: William Burke and William Hare, two Scottish grave robbers, start killing people to sell their victims' bodies for dissection.
1866–82: In the American Midwest, Jesse James commands the James-Younger Gang in railway and bank robberies.
1930–34: As part of their crime spree, Bonnie and Clyde commit murder and kidnapping when they are cornered.
1963: The Glasgow to London mail train was robbed of more than £2.6 million by the Great Train Robbers.
1971: A man going by the name of D.B. Cooper hijacks a plane in Washington State, demands a £158,000 ransom, and then parachutes out of the sky.
1979–83: Phoolan Devi, often known as the Bandit Queen, commits numerous highway robberies in Uttar Pradesh, India.
1984–91: John Leonard Orr, a licensed fire investigator and covert arsonist, starts a number of deadly fires in southern California.
2003: Thieves stole £60 million worth of diamonds from the Antwerp Diamond Center vault in Belgium.
2015: In the largest burglary in UK history, veteran thieves loot the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company in central London.
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