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Normans invade Hastings
1066
assize of Clarendon (reordered court and introduced juries of presentment, set up prisons for those awaiting trial)
1166
statute of labourers (maximum wage for workers)
1351
Black death hit England
1348
introduction of laws against heresy
1382, 1401, 1414
heretics burned at stake law
1401
law gave justices of the peace the power to arrest suspects and take them to the church courts for trial
1414
JPs introduced by Richard I (knights as keepers of peace)
1195
JPs extended to whole country by Edward III
1327
coroners (situations where suspicious death with no natural explanation; Richard I)
1194
church forced English Jews to convert to Christianity or be banished
1290's
end of trial by ordeal (ordered by pope)
1216
council of clarendon (meeting between Henry II and church)
1164
reformation led by Luther
1517
Vagrancy Act (without work for 3 days, branded with V and a slave)
1547
Act for the Relief of the Poor (harsh punishments for vagrants)
1597
Poor Laws (made dealing with vagrants more consistent, parishes had to provide poor relief)
1601
Game Act (made poaching illegal)
1671
when were Cromwell's laws made
1650s
import tax
17th century
sergeants became known as Charlies
1663
Habeus Corpus Act (prevented authorities from locking a person up indefinitely without charge)
1679
House of Correction/Bridewell Prison
1556
transportation to America
1660s
end of transportation to America
c.1770s
death of Elizabeth I
1603
Gunpowder plot
5th November 1605
Act of Uniformity (religion)
1559
first meeting of Gunpowder plot conspirators
20th May 1604
Lord Monteagle received letter warning not to attend opening of parliament
20th October 1605
Guy Fawkes confesses
17th November 1605
conspirators of GP trial
January 1606
Thanksgiving Act (events of 5th Nov commemorated every year, Catholics banned from working in law and army)
1605
Popish Recusants Act (forced Catholics to take oath of allegiance to crown and CofE services)
1606
Catholics allowed to vote
1829
when did witch craze die down
c.1700
Witchcraft Act (Henry VIII, witchcraft punishable by death)
1542
Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcraft (Eliz I)
1563
Witchcraft and Conjugation Act (James I)
1604
Witchcraft Act (George III, fines and imprisonment for witches)
1735
James' Demonologie (book, nature of hell and how to find witches and run witch trials)
1597
worst witch hunts
1645-47
Matthew Hopkins employed to uncover witchery
1645
Jane Wenham (70 years old, husband left her)
1712
Enlightenment
16th-17th centuries
Hawkhurst gang controlled stretches of Kent coast
1735-1749
death penalty introduced for highwaymen
1772
last reported case of highwaymen
1831
when decline of highwaymen began
1815
Black Act
1723
repeal of the Black Act
1823
decriminalisation of witchcraft
1736
when was French Revolution
1789
Tolpuddle Martyrs arrested
1834
Bow Street Runners established
1748
John Fielding took over from his brother
1754
BSR officially paid by the government
1785
Middlesex Justices Act
1792
Metropolitan Police Act
1829
first detective branch set up at Scotland Yard
1842
all areas had professional police force centrally controlled
1856
use of technology in policing
1869
National Police Records and CID
1878
first use of fingerprints
1902
222 crimes had the death penalty
1810
Peel Prime Minister
1834-5 and 1841-46
Peel Home Secretary
1822
Peel reformed prisons and reduced crimes punishable by death by 100
1822
public executions stopped
1868
end of transportation to USA
1783
Australia claimed as part of British Empire
1770
end of transportation to Australia
1868
Fry visits Newgate prison for first time
1813
Fry helps set up Association for Reformation of Female Prisoners at Newgate to campaign for better conditions
1817
Howard publishes The State of prisons in England and Wales
1777
Gaols Act
1823
Pentonville Prison
1842
Sexual Offenses Act
1967
criminal justice act
2005
age of consent lowered to 16
2000
race relations act
1968
domestic violence act
1976
recognised rape in marriage as assault
1991
coercive behaviour assault
2014
domestic abuse act
2021
abortion act
1967
illegal to drink drive a car
1925
drugs illegal
1971
military service act
1916
age limit of conscription raised to 51
1918
metropolitan police bomb squad
1971
fraud squad
1946
national crime agency
2013
dog handling units
1938
first neighbourhood watch
1982
treadmill abolished
1902
biggest changes to prisons
1922
open prison
1933
borstals
1902
prevention of crime act
1908
