GCSE History Crime and Punishment Key Dates

43 AD - c.500 AD Early Modern Period

c.400 AD Anglo Saxon period

533 AD England becomes a united country under the kingdom of Wessex

c.500 AD - 1066 Ketts Rebellion

10th Century Gunpowder Plot - Stuarts now on throne

c.1060 Peasants' Revolt led by Watt Tyler

1066 - c.1100 Bloody Code introduced

1069 - 1070 Romans began to struggle to defend their empire from outside attacks

c.1100 - c.1450 Roman Britain period

1160s Norman period

1215 The thief-taker Jonathan Wild hanged

1381 Church abolished trial by ordeal

1450 - 1750 Tithing system introduced

1531 Unemployed people fond begging to be whipped and returned to birthplace

1536 Henry VIII left Catholic Church sparking the Pilgrimage of Grace

1549 The Waltham Black Act added 50 new capital crimes

1603 The Harrying of the North

1700s New system of courts, Royal Courts, introduced by Henry II

1723 Emperor Justinian created the Roman Digest

1725 Late Middle Ages

1739 Highwayman Dick Turpin executed

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