Key dates- HISTORY

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What happened in the year 400?
Roman army leaves Britain
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What happened in the year 450?
Saxon period begins
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What happened in 1066?
Norman Conquest/Forest laws introduced
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What happened in the year 1160?
Royal travelling judges introduced by Henry II
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What happened in the year 1215?
Catholic church ends trial by ordeal
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What happened in 1547?
Vagrants must be whipped and branded
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What happened in 1605?
Gunpowder plot
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What happened in 1723?
Waltham Black act (Bloody code)
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What happened in 1749?
Bow street runners (early police control)
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What happened in 1777?
Howard publishes state of prisons in England and Wales
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What happened in 1787?
Transportation to Australia begins
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What happened in 1818?
Elizabeth Fry tours prisons
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What happened in 1823?
Gaols Act reforms prison conditions takes them under government control
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What happened in 1834?
Tolpuddle Martyrs sent to Australia unfairly
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What happened in 1868?
End of transportation and public execution
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What happened in 1901?
Fingerprint department set up
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What happened in 1916?
Military Service Act introduces conscription during WW1
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What happened in 1953?
Derek Bentley hanged
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What happened in 1965?
End of Capital Punishment in Britain
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What happened in 1968?
Race relations Act
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What happened in the year 450?

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Saxon period begins

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What happened in 1066?

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What happened in the year 1160?

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What happened in the year 1215?

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