Crime and punishment dates

Question 1

Battle of hastings

Answer 1

1066

Question 2

Murdrum fine introduced

Answer 2

1070

Question 3

Forest Laws past

Answer 3

1072

Question 4

Henry II reorganises courts

Answer 4

1150s-60s

Question 5

Coroners intoduced by Richard I

Answer 5

1194

Question 6

Trial by ordeal abolished

Answer 6

1215

Question 7

JPs introduced

Answer 7

1327

Question 8

Black Death reaches England

Answer 8

1348

Question 9

Vagabonds and Beggars act

Answer 9

1494

Question 10

Witchcraft Act, makes witchcraft punishable by death

Answer 10

1542

Question 11

Henry VIII church of England

Answer 11

1534

Question 12

Poor law

Answer 12

1601

Question 13

Gunpowder Plot

Answer 13

1605

Question 14

Transportation begins

Answer 14

1615

Question 15

Matthew Hopkins witch hunts

Answer 15

1645-47

Question 16

Civil war

Answer 16

1642-51

Question 17

50 crimes punishable by death

Answer 17

1688

Question 18

Mounted customs officers introduced

Answer 18

1690

Question 19

Black act makes poaching a capital crime

Answer 19

1723

Question 20

Witchcraft act defines witches as confidence tricksters

Answer 20

1735

Question 21

Fielding brothers set up Bow Street Runners

Answer 21

1748

Question 22

John Howard’s ‘The State of Prisons’ published

Answer 22

1777

Question 23

transportation to australia begins

Answer 23

1778

Question 24

222 crimes punishable by death

Answer 24

1810

Question 25

Elizabeth Fry visits prisons

Answer 25

1813

Question 26

Metropolitan Police set up

Answer 26

1829

Question 27

Last highway robbery

Answer 27

1831

Question 28

Punishment of Death Act reduces number of crimes punishable by death to 60

Answer 28

1832

Question 29

Topuddle Martyrs

Answer 29

1833

Question 30

Pentonville opens

Answer 30

1842

Question 31

Import taxes cut, smuggling reduced

Answer 31

1850

Question 32

Transportaion abolished

Answer 32

1857

Question 33

end of pubic executions

Answer 33

1868

Question 34

Jack the Ripper murders

Answer 34

1888

Question 35

Borstals introduced for young offenders

Answer 35

1900

Question 36

conscription introduced

Answer 36

1916

Question 37

Execution of under 18s ends

Answer 37

1933

Question 38

Execution of Derek Bentley

Answer 38

1953

Question 39

Death penalty abolished for most crimes

Answer 39

1965

Question 40

Sexual offences act

Answer 40

1967

Question 41

Domestic Violence Act

Answer 41

1976

Question 42

Abortion act and Race Relations act passed

Answer 42

1968

Question 43

Terrorism act

Answer 43

2000

Question 44

Racial and Religious Hatred Act

Answer 44

2006