Key dates

• What year did William Conqueror become king of England?

  1066
• What year did pope innocent II end trial by ordeal?

  1215
• What year were constables introduced?

  1285
• What year was the statuary punishment for treason was to be hung drawn and quartered?

  1351
• What year was the vagrancy act?

  1494
• What year did James I publish daemonologie?

  1597
• What year was the witchcraft act?

  1604
• What year was the gunpowder plot?

  1605
• What year was Matthew Hopkins large scale witch hunt?

  1645
• What year were there 50 capital crimes (Bloody Code)?

  1688
• What year did the Black act make poaching an illegal offence?

  1723
• What year were the Bow Street Runners established?

  1749
• What year was the Gaols act?

  1774
• What year was the first official police force formed?

  1829
• What year were the Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced?

  1834
• What year was the police act?

  1856
• What year was the CID set up?

  1878
• When did the first borstal open?

  1902
• What year was the children’s act?

  1908
• What year was the millitary service act?

  1916
• what year were open prisons introduced?

  1933
• What year was the fraud squad established?

  1946
• What year was Derek Bentley executed?

  1953
• What year was the homicide act?

  1957
• What year was the death penalty abolished completely?

  1998
• What year were borstals abolished?

  1982
• What year was the death penalty for murder abolished?

  1969