c+p dates

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  • 1215- pope ends trial by ordeal
  • 1494- vagrancy act
  • 1597- james I published daemonologie
  • 1604- witchcraft act
  • 1605- gunpowder plot
  • 1645- matthew hopkins large-scale witch hunt
  • 1749- bow street runners established
  • 1774- discharged prisoners act
  • 1829- first police force formed
  • 1834- tolpuddle martyrs sentenced
  • 1856- police act
  • 1878- CID set up
  • 1902- first borstal opened
  • 1916- military service act
  • 1933- open prisons introduced
  • 1946- fraud squad established
  • 1953- derek bentley executed
  • 1957- homicide act
  • 1971- police bomb squad formed
  • 1982- borstals abolished
  • 1988- young offenders institution set up
  • 1998- death penalty abolished
  • 1823- the gaols act (elizabeth fry)