Key dates

Question 1

Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII

Answer 1

1536

Question 2

Gunpowder Plot.

Answer 2

1605

Question 3

English Civil War.

Answer 3

1642-49

Question 4

Witchcraft Act

Answer 4

1542

Question 5

Vagrancy Act

Answer 5

1547

Question 6

Act for Relief of the Poor (deserving and undeserving poor).

Answer 6

1597

Question 7

Matthew Hopkins becomes Witch-Finder General.

Answer 7

1645

Question 8

When did transportation to America begin and how many people were transported.

Answer 8

1603- (50 to 80 thousand transported)

Question 9

Guy Fawkes hung, drawn and quartered.

Answer 9

1606

Question 10

When did the Bloody Code begin and how many capital offences were there

Answer 10

1688, there were 50 capital offences

Question 11

Churches could no longer try criminal cases under Benefit of Clergy.

Answer 11

1576

Question 12

Sanctuary abolished.

Answer 12

1623

Question 13

Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister.

Answer 13

1834-35

Question 14

Waltham Black Act makes poaching illegal.

Answer 14

1723

Question 15

Hawkhurst Gang control smuggling along the South East coast of England

Answer 15

1739-45

Question 16

Black Act repealed.

Answer 16

1827

Question 17

Tolpuddle Martyrs charged under naval mutiny law for forming a union.

Answer 17

1834

Question 18

Metropolitan Police Act (police set up in London).

Answer 18

1829

Question 19

CID set up in London.

Answer 19

1878

Question 20

Bow Street Runners introduced.

Answer 20

1748

Question 21

Transportation of criminals to Australia (Over 160,000).

Answer 21

1778-1868

Question 22

Bloody Code reaches 222 Capital crimes.

Answer 22

1810

Question 23

Elizabeth Fry visits female prisoners in
Newgate Prison.

Answer 23

1813

Question 24

Gaolers paid out of local taxes.

Answer 24

1815

Question 25

Gaols Act (prisoners held in categories).

Answer 25

1823

Question 26

Peel reduced Capital crimes by 100.

Answer 26

1825

Question 27

Prisons Act.

Answer 27

1839

Question 28

Pentonville Prison built.

Answer 28

1842

Question 29

End of capital punishment (repealed in 1990).

Answer 29

1965

Question 30

The Police National Computer system set up is capable of holding details on 25million people.

Answer 30

1980s

Question 31

Neighbourhood Watch set up

Answer 31

1982

Question 32

First convictions based on DNA

Answer 32

1988

Question 33

National Automatic Fingerprint identification set up

Answer 33

1995

Question 34

Open prisons introduced

Answer 34

1933

Question 35

Pope bans Trial by Ordeal (ends in England in 1219).

Answer 35

1215

Question 36

Knights appointed constables.

Answer 36

1195

Question 37

Justices of the Peace Act allowed to hear minor cases.

Answer 37

1361

Question 38

Forest Laws

Answer 38

1072- 30% Royal Forest