Victorian Crime and Punishment

The Victorian Edwardian times              22 January 1901

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Victoria's Final End

We have just learned that Queen Victoria a.k.a."The Empress of India" has died, after a long reign that began the 20th of June 1837, when the Queen turned eighteen years old.


The life of Victoria:
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on the 24 May 1819. During her reign she enforced the idea of "punishing to stop crime", the notion that if you punished ALL crime, ALL crime would stop (plus which in the Victorian's perfect world most crimes should be punished by hanging). Unfortunately for her, the judges did not like this cruel concept of  punishment . They frequently prescribed hanging and then let the "criminal" go. The Victorians  really did punish everything, as we can see in this real document from our records:

WANTED

WILLIAM WILSON

The Crime: Stealing TURNIPS on the 29th of September

The Punishment: 1 month of solitary confinement.

Easter Egg:)

PREVIEW OF THE YEAR AHEAD

IN THE YEAR OF 1901

January 1 –The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia will federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton will become the first Prime Minister.

February 14 – Edward VII will open his first parliament.

August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth will patent an electric vacuum cleaner.

October 2 – The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, will be launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

November 9 – The Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (to be called George V) will become Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

Rewind:Inventions

In The 19th Century

1800-01 High pressure steam engine: Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans.

1801: Jacquard loom (loom controlled by a punched card): Joseph Marie Jacquard

1802: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy

1804: Morphine in Paderborn, Germany: Friedrich Sertürner.

1804: Railway steam locomotive: Richard Trevithick

1822 The pattern-tracing lathe completed by Thomas Blanchard.


1826: Friction Match: John Walker

1860: Light bulb (lasted 3 hours): Joseph Swan

1876: Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell.

1877: The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.

1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss

1879: Thomas Edison produced the first practical light bulb and was granted a U.S. patent.

1888: Wind turbines for grid electricity : Charles F. Brush