Bloody Code inroduced

Last public execution in Britain

Capital punishment abolished in Britain

Metropolitan Police began

Mandatory for all districts to have a police force

Bow street runners set up

Australia stopped accepting convicts

Capital offences reduced to just five

Gunpowder plot

Begining of transportation

Prisons Act

Borstals set up

Matthew Hopkins witch trial

Luddites

Peterloo Massacre

Swing Riots

Rebecca Riots

Witchcraft especially persecuted

Case study of 'China' in what centuary