Ships and railways

Every case in ships and railways, best-known first

Best-known first: cases from 1900 on, then the United States, then Europe, and the people most read about on English Wikipedia each month. Fiction, scripture and legend come last.

1847 · King William Island, Nunavut, CanadaThe Navy declared Franklin's crews dead in 1854 while his wife paid for the search, and the wrecks found 160 years later belong partly to the InuitSir John Franklin sailed in 1845 with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage. The expedition went silent.Royal Museums Greenwich and 3 more1701 · Gardiners Island, New York, USA; Wapping, London, EnglandCaptain Kidd buried treasure on Gardiners Island to bargain for a pardon, and the governor who had backed his voyage dug it upWilliam Kidd was a New York sea captain and shipowner.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more1897 · Chicago, Illinois, USAGeorge Pullman's will cut his twin sons to $3,000 a year for lacking "a sense of responsibility," and his family buried him under steel rails and concreteGeorge Pullman built a company town for his sleeping-car works south of Chicago. In the 1894 depression he laid off about a third of his workers and cut the rest's wages by an average of 30 percent while keeping rents the same.archive.archaeology.org and 3 more1926 · aboard the yacht Liberty, off JerseyA shipowner's widow reportedly tore up a will leaving her £1 million, inherited about £5.5 million, and died without a will of her ownFanny Lucy Radmall married Sir Robert Houston, a director of the Houston shipping lines, on 12 December 1924. Wikipedia reports that when he showed her his will, she tore it up, saying £1 million was not enough.Time and 2 more1807 · Canton (Guangzhou), ChinaZheng Yi's widow took command of his pirate fleets, married his adopted heir, and surrendered to the Qing in 1810 keeping her plunderZheng Yi Sao had worked as a prostitute in Canton before she married the pirate chief Zheng Yi in 1801. His confederation had six fleets under coloured flags, and he led the Red Flag Fleet of about 200 ships.worldhistory.org and 2 more1827 · York, EnglandGeorge Hudson inherited £30,000 from a great-uncle in "suspicious circumstances," became the Railway King, and died with less than £200George Hudson, a farmer's fifth son from Howsham, was a draper in York. In 1827 he received £30,000 from his great-uncle Matthew Bottrill.british-history.ac.uk and 2 more2014 · off Jindo, South Korea, and Suncheon, South KoreaAfter the Sewol sank with 304 dead, the man prosecutors called its real owner fled, was found dead in a plum field, and the state went after his family's assetsThe ferry Sewol capsized on 16 April 2014 with 476 people aboard, most of them students from Danwon High School. 304 died. Its operator was Chonghaejin Marine.The Korea Herald and 3 more1688 · Port Royal, JamaicaHenry Morgan left his plantations and 131 enslaved people to his wife and nephews, and four years later his grave went under the seaHenry Morgan was born in Wales around 1635. In 1671 he marched across the isthmus and took the city of Panama, which embarrassed the English government.lbs.ucl.ac.uk and 3 more1547 · Genoa, ItalyAndrea Doria's chosen heir was shot at a Genoa gate in the Fieschi coup, the coup's leader drowned in the harbour, and the admiral's fortune passed to an eight-year-oldAndrea Doria, admiral of the Genoese galleys and master of the republic, adopted his stepson Marc'Antonio del Carretto, who was named heir to the principality of Melfi in 1534.Treccani and 2 more1853 · off Beachy Head, East Sussex, EnglandOne wave took a Manchester family off the wreck of the Dalhousie, and their estates went to strangers because no one could say who died firstJohn Underwood, 45, had worked for years for Brittle and Co. of Wood Street, Manchester. He planned to set up a business in Sydney.The National Archives, Find Case Law and 2 more1583 · Rockfleet (Carraigahowley), County Mayo, IrelandGaelic law gave Gráinne O'Malley nothing from two husbands, so she sailed to Elizabeth I and won a pension from her sons' landsIn 1546 Gráinne O'Malley married Dónal O'Flaherty, heir to his lordship. He was killed in a fight with the Joyces around 1564. Under Gaelic law she could not inherit O'Flaherty land.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk and 2 more1401 · Hamburg, GermanyHamburg beheaded the pirate Störtebeker, legend put his gold in a church spire, and a skull said to be his was stolen from the city museum in 2010Klaus Störtebeker is remembered as a leader of the Victual Brothers, who seized merchant ships in the Baltic and North Seas. A Hamburg fleet under Hermann Langhe and Nikolaus Schoke sailed for Heligoland in August 1400.historynewsnetwork.org and 2 more345 BCE · Piraeus, Athens, GreeceA merchant died owing money on a Black Sea wine voyage, and his brother, a pupil of Isocrates, told the Athenian court he was not the heirA speech in the works of Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, preserves a loan contract. Androcles of Sphettus and Nausicrates of Carystus lent 3,000 drachmas to Artemo and Apollodorus of Phaselis for a round trip to the Black Sea.cases.som.yale.edu and 3 more841 · Cheonghaejin, Wando, South KoreaJang Bogo ruled the seas between China, Korea and Japan, tried to make his daughter a queen, and was stabbed over wine by an envoy who said he had fled the courtJang Bogo was born, probably in 788, to a modest family on Wando off Silla's southwest coast. He served as an officer in the Tang army.worldhistory.org and 2 more