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Flashcards by zaroon_riaz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by zaroon_riaz
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| Question | Answer |
| Roman Period | 43AD - 410AD |
| Battle of Watling Street | 60AD - Queen Boudica led rebels against the Roman Empire, but were defeated |
| The Dark Ages Period | 410 AD - 1066 |
| Institutes of Justinian | 553AD - basic laws written down in detail - anyone bring case to court - innocent until proven guilty - defendant had right to present evidence - defendant had right to fair and open trial |
| Synod of Whitby | 663AD - All Anglo Saxon kings converted to Christianity |
| Medieval Period | 1066 - 1450 |
| Battle of Hastings | 1066 - Duke William I of Normandy, successfully conquered England and defeated Harold Godwinson |
| English Civil War | 1135 - 1154 |
| Constitutes of Clarendon | 1164 - Henry II published 16 articles creating English column law while trying to decrease the power of the church and increase the power of the monarch |
| Trial by Ordeal ended | 1215 - Introduced in the Dark Ages, it suggested that God would show innocence through lack of injury |
| Constables Introduced | 1250 - Men responsible for law and order in their village (unpaid and voluntary for 1 year only) |
| Posse Comitatus introduced | 1285 - new law created by Edward I - all men had the duty to form a posse and help the sheriff catch the criminal (extension to tithings) |
| Justices of the Peace act | 1361 - Rich local landowners could be asked to become magistrates to help keep the peace of the kingdom |
| Early Modern Period | 1450 - 1750 |
| Vagrancy Law | 1531 - Punishment of Vagabonds changed from stocks and pillory to whipping until bloody and then return to homeland |
| Witchcraft becomes a crime | 1542 - Henry VIII made all religious crimes equivalent to crimes of the state (abolished : 1736) |
| Vagrancy Act 2 | 1547 - Edward I stated that any able-bodied person who was out of work for more than three days should be branded with a V and sold into slavery for two years. |
| Houses of Correction built | 1576 - idea of reform not remove |
| Gunpowder plot | 1605 - Guy Fawkes tries to blow up parliament and fails |
| Civil War 2 | 1642 - 1649 |
| Witchfinder General | 1645 - Matthew Hopkins paid by Essex authorities to hunt and kill witches - flourished during the civil war (executed: 1647) |
| Waltham Black Act | 1723 - 50 more crimes punishable by death |
| Bow Street runners | 1749 - London's first professional police force, created by Henry Fielding |
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