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Murdrum Fine
1070
Forest Laws
1072
Coroners Introduced
1194
Pope
Innocent III abolishes
Trial by Ordeal
1215
JPs extended to all areas
1327
Church courts abolished- end of Benefit of the Clergy & Sanctuary
1536
Witchcraft Act- becomes a capital crime
1542
Poor Law
1601
Gunpowder Plot
1605
Transportation
to America begins
1615
Matthew
Hopkins active
1645-47
Bloody Code begins
(50 crimes punishable by death
)
1688
The Black Act- Poaching= Capital crime
1723
Witchcraft is no longer a capital crime
1736
Fielding
Brothers set up the Bow Street Runners
1748
John Howard publishes recommendations for prison reform
1777
Transportation to Australia begins
1787
Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison
1813
Gaols Act-
prisoners held in categories
1823
Metropolitan Police Force
1829
Tolpuddle Martyrs
1833
Pentonville Prison opens (on site of old Millbank Prison)
1842
Police Act-
compulsory to have a police force
1856
End of Transportation (legally- last ship went in 1868)
1857
Last public execution
1868
Artisans
Dwelling Act
1875
Fenian bombs at Parliament and Tower of London
1885
Sir
Charles Warren =
Chief Commissioner
1886
Bloody Sunday
Trafalgar
Square demonstration
1887
Whitechapel Murders
1888
Blood types
discovered
1901
Borstals
introduced
1902
Military Service
Act (conscription)
1916
Two-way radios
in
police cars
and 999 number
1930s
Police Training College
created
1947
Execution
of
Derek Bentley
1953
Homicide
Act-
limits
death
penalty
to
5
categories
of
murder
1957
Death penalty abolished (permanent in 1969)
1965
Sexual
Offences
Act-
homosexuality decriminalised
1967
Abortion
Act-
decriminalised
(
in
certain
circumstances
)
1968
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