C + p dates

Question 0

When were the Jacobite rebellions?

Answer 0

1715-1745

Question 1

When was the execution of Charles I?

Answer 1

1649

Question 2

When were gypsy beggars allowed to be hung?

Answer 2

1554

Question 3

When was exporting wool made illegal?

Answer 3

1614

Question 4

When was exporting wool made punishable by death?

Answer 4

1661

Question 5

What year was the Gunpowder plot?

Answer 5

1605

Question 6

What happened in the 12th Century?

Answer 6

Hue and Cry act by local groups of people

Question 7

What was the population of England in 1450?

Answer 7

2m

Question 8

What was the population of England in 1551?

Answer 8

3m

Question 9

What happened in 1576?

Answer 9

Local judges are required to build ‘houses of correction’ where beggars could be kept.

Question 10

When was the 1st Vagrancy Act?

Answer 10

1494

Question 11

What happened in 1547?

Answer 11

Vagrancy Act (2nd)

Question 12

When was the Habeaus Corpus Act?

Answer 12

1679

Question 13

What act was introduced in 1718?

Answer 13

Transportation Act

Question 14

In 1718 what title did Jonathan Wild give himself?

Answer 14

Thief taker general of Great Britain and Ireland

Question 15

When was John Howard born?

Answer 15

1726

Question 16

When and where was Wild hung?

Answer 16

1725 at Tyburn

Question 17

1735-1749

Answer 17

Hawkurst Gang dominated smuggling from Kent to Dorset

Question 18

When was the execution of Dick Turpin?

Answer 18

1739

Question 19

When was the last hanging, drawing & quartering?

Answer 19

1746

Question 20

What happened in 1748?

Answer 20

Court records showed 103 - 70% of the people wanted for smuggling were farm workers

Question 21

When were the Bow Street Runners?

Answer 21

1749

Question 22

What was the population of England in 1750?

Answer 22

7m

Question 23

How many offences were there with the death penalty in 1750?

Answer 23

160 offences

Question 24

When did John Fielding start mounted patrols?

Answer 24

1754

Question 25

What did Howard do in 1770s - 1780s?

Answer 25

Howard toured Britain and Europe to discover better ways of running prisons

Question 26

When did the Gaols Act pass and due to who?

Answer 26

1774, due to John Howard

Question 27

What riots happened in 1780?

Answer 27

Gordon Riots

Question 28

When did William Pitt PM lower taxes on imported food?

Answer 28

1780

Question 29

When was Quaker Elizabeth Fry born?

Answer 29

1780

Question 30

What happened in 1787?

Answer 30

First transportation to Australia

Question 31

When did Combination Acts ban trade unions?

Answer 31

1799

Question 32

How many offences were there with the death penalty in 1815?

Answer 32

225 offences

Question 33

When did the flogging of women end?

Answer 33

1820

Question 34

What act was in 1823?

Answer 34

Gaols act

Question 35

What did Robert Peel do in 1823-5?

Answer 35

Reform prisons and reduce number of death penalty offences

Question 36

What was set up in 1829?

Answer 36

Metropolitan Police Force

Question 37

When were the Swing Riots?

Answer 37

1830

Question 38

In what year was the Pentoville Prison built?

Answer 38

1842

Question 39

As a result of Robert Peel, when were 90 new prisons built?

Answer 39

1877