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18 January 2013: Ned Kelly's remains are buried

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1 September 2011: Victorian government announces the remains are those of Ned Kelly.

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November 2009: A skull believed to belong to Ned Kelly is given to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification. Efforts to identify his remains among those exhumed from Pentridge Prison begin. 

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1929: The remains of prisoners, including Ned Kelly's remains, transferred from Old Melbourne Gaol to Pentridge Prison. 

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11 November 1880: Ned Kelly is hanged. Two Melbourne newspapers report his last words as "Such is life". 

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October 1880: Ned Kelly faces trial and is sentenced to death. 

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June 1880: Shootout between police and the Kelly gang at Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly is arrested, the three members of his gang die in the shootout. 

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February 1879: Ned Kelly and his gang dress as cops and rob a bank in Jerilderie. 

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December 1878: Ned Kelly and his gang hold up a bank in Euroa. 

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October 1878: Ned Kelly and his gang kill three police from a group sent to track him down at Stringy Bark Creek in bushland near Mansfield. 

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April 1878: Ned Kelly goes into hiding after being accused of assaulting a police officer. 

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October 1870: Arrested again for assault. 1871: Arrested for riding a stolen horse and fighting with police. Sentenced to three years' jail. 

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1869: A 14-year-old Kelly assaults a Chinese pig farmer and spends close to two weeks in police custody. 

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1854/1855 (circa): Born Edward Kelly in Beveridge, north of Melbourne. 

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In September 2011 the Victorian government announced that his remains had been found at Pentridge Prison, and proven to be his with a DNA analysis.

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NED KELLY IS Australia's most loved and infamous bushranger. Many Aussies believe his last words before his 1880 hanging in a Melbourne jail were "such is life". That's a myth, but it does represent the easygoing Aussie ethos. 

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An engraving from the 1880 trial of Ned Kelly. Image Credit: State Library of Victoria

NED KELLY IS Australia's most loved and infamous bushranger. Many Aussies believe his last words before his 1880 hanging in a Melbourne jail were "such is life". That's a myth, but it does represent the easygoing Aussie ethos.

In September 2011 the Victorian government announced that his remains had been found at Pentridge Prison, and proven to be his with a DNA analysis.

Ned Kelly timeline of his life and death

1854/1855 (circa): Born Edward Kelly in Beveridge, north of Melbourne.

1869: A 14-year-old Kelly assaults a Chinese pig farmer and spends close to two weeks in police custody.

October 1870: Arrested again for assault. 1871: Arrested for riding a stolen horse and fighting with police. Sentenced to three years' jail.

April 1878: Ned Kelly goes into hiding after being accused of assaulting a police officer.

October 1878: Ned Kelly and his gang kill three police from a group sent to track him down at Stringy Bark Creek in bushland near Mansfield.

December 1878: Ned Kelly and his gang hold up a bank in Euroa.

February 1879: Ned Kelly and his gang dress as cops and rob a bank in Jerilderie.

June 1880: Shootout between police and the Kelly gang at Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly is arrested, the three members of his gang die in the shootout.

October 1880: NedKelly faces trial and is sentenced to death.

11 November 1880: Ned Kelly is hanged. Two Melbourne newspapers report his last words as "Such is life".

1929: The remains of prisoners, including Ned Kelly's remains, transferred from Old Melbourne Gaol to Pentridge Prison.

November 2009: A skull believed to belong to Ned Kelly is given to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification. Efforts to identify his remains among those exhumed from Pentridge Prison begin.

1 September 2011: Victorian government announces the remains are those of Ned Kelly.

18 January 2013: Ned Kelly's remains are buried

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An engraving from the 1880 trial of Ned Kelly. Image Credit: State Library of Victoria NED KELLY IS Australia's most loved and infamous bushranger. Many Aussies believe his last words before his 1880 hanging in a Melbourne jail were "such is life". That's a myth, but it does represent the easygoing Aussie ethos.