Dan Kelly (bushranger), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian bushranger
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Place of Birth: Beveridge, Victoria, Australia
About Dan Kelly (bushranger)
- Daniel Kelly (1 June 1861 – 28 June 1880) was an Australian bushranger and outlaw.
- The son of an Irish convict, he was the younger brother of the bushranger Ned Kelly.
- Dan and Ned killed three policemen at Stringybark Creek in northeast Victoria, near the present-day town of Tolmie, Victoria.
- With two friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, the brothers formed the Kelly Gang.
- They robbed banks, took over whole towns, and kept the people in Victoria and New South Wales frightened.
- For two years the Victorian police searched for them, locked up their friends and families, but could not find them.
- Dan Kelly died during the infamous siege of Glenrowan. More books have been written about the Kelly Gang than any other subject in Australian history.
- The Kelly Gang were the subject of the world's first full-length feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in 1906.
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