Events Tagged: "justice"

Hammurabi becomes king of Babylon - begins 42-year reign that will transform city-state into empire

Code of Hammurabi promulgated - 282 laws carved on stele, 'eye for an eye,' first complete legal code

Alfred establishes hundred courts - subdivisions of shires with reeves presiding over local justice and collecting royal dues

Louis IX abolishes trial by ordeal - replaces with rational judicial procedures, witnesses and evidence