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Crime and Punishment Key Dates
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- 1Bloody Code inroduced1723
- 2Last public execution in Britain1868
- 3Capital punishment abolished in Britain1969
- 4Metropolitan Police began1829
- 5Mandatory for all districts to have a police force1856
- 6Bow street runners set up1749
- 7Australia stopped accepting convicts1850-1870
- 8Capital offences reduced to just five1861
- 9Gunpowder plot1605
- 10Begining of transportation1678
- 11Prisons Act1865
- 12Borstals set up1908
- 13Matthew Hopkins witch trial1645
- 14Luddites1812-13
- 15Peterloo Massacre1819
- 16Swing Riots1829-30
- 17Rebecca Riots1843
- 18Witchcraft especially persecuted1560's
1640's - 19Case study of 'China' in what centuary19th C
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- Some dates relevant to WJCE GCSE History 'Crime and Punishment' (unit 3: thematic study)
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