Edexcel GCSE History Crime and Punishment Timeline

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Norman Conquest
1066
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Trial by ordeal abandoned by Catholic Church
1215
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Introduction of constables
1285
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Vagrancy Act
1494
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Witchcraft Act
1542
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Vagrancy Act
1547
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Witchcraft Act
1604
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Gunpowder Plot
1605
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Civil War
1642
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Matthew Hopkins witch-hunts
1645-47
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Transportation Act
1718
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Bow Street Runners
1749
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Gaols Act
1774
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'The State of Prisons in England and Wales' by John Howard published
1777
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Death penalty for over 225 offences
1815
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Elizabeth Fry tour of prisons
1818
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Gaols Act / reduction in Bloody Code by 100 offences
1823
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Metropolitan Police Act
1829
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Tolpuddle Martyrs
1834
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Opening of Pentonville prison
1842
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End of public execution and transportation
1868
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CID set up
1878
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Jack the Ripper murders
1888
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First World War - conscientious objection
1914-18
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Abolition of separate system started
1922
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First open prison
1933
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Second World War - conscientious objection
1939-45
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Derek Bentley case
1953
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Last execution in the UK
1964
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Abolition of capital punishment for murder
1969
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Neighbourhood Watch
1982
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Medieval England
c1000-c1500
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Early Modern England
c1500-c1700
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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
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The Industrial Revolution
c1700-c1900
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Modern Britain / 20th Century
c1900-present
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Whitechapel case study
c1870-c1900
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1215

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1285

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1494

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1542

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