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Jack the Ripper, suspected of being one of those implicated in the Cleveland Street Affair involving high-society Victorians and their patronage of a brothel staffed by messenger boys, is credited with the unsolved murders of six London prostitutes in 1888 and 1889.

London prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith is brutally attacked by two or three men on April 3, 1888, dying of her injuries the following day, first of the Whitechapel murders, but probably not a victim of Jack the Ripper.

The body of London prostitute Martha Tabram, a possible victim of Jack the Ripper, is found on August 7, 1888.

The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is found on August 31, 1888; she is considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

The mutilated body of London prostitute Annie Chapman (considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper) is found on September 8, 1888.

The 'Dear Boss letter' signed "Jack the Ripper", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency on September 27, 1888.   

The bodies of London prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, the latter mutilated, are found on September 30, 1888.

They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.

Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered on October 2, 1888, at three central London locations, one being the construction site of the police headquarters at New Scotland Yard.

The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found on November 9, 1888.

She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims.

A number of similar murders in England will follow, but the police will attribute them to copy-cat killers.