672-735- Bede wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People (a history of Christianity in England). His book is referred to in the Malleus Maleficarum.
900- The Canon Episcopi was written.
1184- Episcopal or Medieval Inquisition begins
1233- The first Papal ordinance directly dealing with witchcraft was by Pope Gregory IX to Conrad of Marburg, bidding him to proceed against the Luciferians. In mid year, Conrad of Marburg was found murdered in pursuit of his duties.
1234 (May27)- 8000 “Stedingers” killed
1239 (May 29)- 180 burned for witchcraft at Montwimer, France
1258- Pope Alexander IV to the Franciscan Inquisitors
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refrain from judging any cases of Witchcraft unless there was some very strong reason to suppose that heretical practice could also be amply proved.
1275- Angela de la Barthe burned at Toulouse, France
1307 (October)- 36 Knights Templar died under torture in France
1310- 54 Knights Templar burned in France. Peter of Albano died in prison
1312- Burning of Jacques De Molay, Grand Master of the Templars
1314- Burning of 39 Knights Templar in France
1315- Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged in France
1317- Hughes Geraud is burned in France
1320-50- Witchcraft added to the list of Inquisitional heresies. Over 200 people were burned at Carcassonne, France
1323- Some “witches” were burned at Kilkenny, Ireland
1324- Petronilla de Meath burned as a witch, the first such burning in Ireland, A man dies in prison in England
1330- Barthelemy Andrius, Jean Andrius, Phillippe Andrius & burned at Carcassonne, France
1335- 63 burned at Toulouse, France, 5 burned at Carcassonne, France
1352- 8 burned at Carcassonne, France
1357- 31 burned at Carcassonne, France
1387-1400- 67 burned at Carcassonne, France
1399- 1 burned at Berlin, Germany
1400- Many “witches” burned at Simmenthal, Switzerland
1423- Many “witches” burned at Carcassonne, France
1428-1434- Over 200 people executed in the Valais, France
1428-1447- 167 executed in l’Isere, France
1431-Joan d’Arc burned at RouenFrance
1432-1432- 24 executed in Toulouse, France
1437- 150 executed in Briancon, France
1438- Pierre Vallin, Jean Greland & 10 others are executed in France
1439- Hanchemand de Mazelier is arrested in Germany
1440- Execution of Gilles de Rais, on charges of witchcraft
1441- Roger Bolingbroke is hanged, drawn and quartered in England, Margery Jordemaine burned in England
1446-1447- 3 burned in Savory
1453- 7 killed at Marmande, France
1455- 1 burned at Locarno, Italy
1459- Several people were burned in Arras, France (This is also the times during Vlad the Impaler had his reign)
1460- A person was burned at Cambrai, France
1470- 2 burned in Burgundy, France
1472- 3 burned at Forno-Rivara, Italy
1474- 2 burned at Levone, in Italy
1475- 5 burned at Forno, Italy
1478-1834 Spanish Inquisition
1479- Several People burned at Edinburgh
1482- 4 burned at Metz, Germany
1482-1486- 48 burned at Constance
1484- Pope Innocent VIII sets severe penalties against German witches and magicians, 2 burned at Toulouse, France. The Pope also decreeing Inquisitors Sprenger and Kramer, (authors of the Malleus Maleficarum), the rights to:
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“be empowered to proceed to the just correction, imprisonment, and punishment of any persons, without let or hindrance, in every way as if the provinces, townships, dioceses, districts, territories, yea, even the persons and their crimes in this kind were named and particularly designated in Our letters.”
1485- 2 burned in Chaucy, France
1488- 29 “witches” died in Germany
1493-1541- Paracelsus, a Physician claimed that everything he learned came from “an old witch”.
1486- Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany and King of the Romans signs papers in Brussels giving permission to Sprenger and Kramer (authors of the Malleus Maleficarum) to carry out their duties, and commanding cooperation with them. Malleus Maleficarum was published.
1500- 1 executed in France, 30 burned in Calahorra, Spain
1510- 1 burned in Saxony, Germany and 60 burned in Northern Italy
1515- Over 500 people were burned in Geneva, Switzerland
1515-1588-Johan Weyer born in Brabant (Belgium), a German physician. Believed most witches were disturbed old women, incapable of harm. Felt that the belief in witchcraft was caused by the devil. In 1563, he wrote De Praestigiis Daemonum. Was forced out of Netherlands by the Catholic Governor, Duke of Alba.
1518-21- 64 burned in Val Camonica, Italy, 4 are burned in Waldsee, Germany
1521- 2 burned in Besancon, France
1523- 100 burned in Como, Italy
1524- Over 1000 executed in Como Italy
1528- Ursula Wachin is burned at Waldsee, Germany
mid 1500s- Over 900 people executed by Nicolas Remy, Mark Antony Bragadini is beheaded in Italy, Madeline Amalaric is burned in France, Margaret Dunhome is burned in Scotland, William Barton is executed in Scotland, Hans Deineris burned in Germany. A deaf male is killed by a mob at Sible Hedingham, Marie Balcoin is burned in the reign of Henry IV of France
1529-1596 or 1530-1590- Jean Bodin (a French Judge) In 1580, he wrote De la Demonomanie des Sorciers. He Claimed that those who denied the existence of witches were themselves witches. (The date of his death is somewhere between 150 to 1596)
1530-1616- Time of Nicholas Remy (French Lawyer) fought against witches. In 1595 he wrote Demonaltry and sites 128 cases of Witchcraft as his sources.
1531- Elsbet Mullerin is burned at Waldsee, Germany
1536- Many people were executed at Saragossa, Spain
1536-1774- Portuguese Inquisition
1540- 2 are burned at Rouen
1542-1834 (?)- Roman Inquisition
1545- Barbara Echtinger is imprisoned for life at Waldsee, Germany
1546- Burning of Anne Askew
1549- 8 people burned in France
1555- 3 burned in Germany
1556- 1 burned in France
1557- Janet Douglas burned in Scotland & Joachim Hezensohn is beheaded in Germany
1561- 5 burned in France
1563-1603- Over 17,000 killed in Scotland
1564- 1 burned in Scotland
1565- 1 person is hung in Dorset, England
1566- The Chelmesford witches. King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) was born (as in the King James version of the Bible) During his reign 20 people were executed. He died in 1625.
1569- 2 people are hanged at St. Andrews, Scotland
1571- Many people burned in France
1572- 2 burned in Scotland
1573- Mary le Fief, of Samur, France, accused of witchcraft, Over 70,000 are executed in England
1574- Gilles Garnier burned as a werewolf in Dole, France, Several are executed in Paris. a man is hanged in England
1576- Marguerite Pajot was executed at Tonnerre, France & Bessie Dunlop is burned at Castle Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland
1577- Catherine Doree is executed at Courveres, France
1578- 3 executed in England, 36 in Ireland & Jeanne Harvilliers in France
1581- 9 were burned in Waldsee, Germany
1582- 19 killed in England
1583- Jean Bonnet in France & Several in Italy are burned alive
1584- Publication of The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot, suggesting that maybe witches didn’t really exist.
1585- 7 are burned in Waldsee, Germany & Margaret Hacket is executed at Tyburn, England
1586- 15 were burned in Waldsee, Germany & 2 people are burned in Paris, France
1587-1593- 368 persons killed for witchcraft in the diocese of Treves
1587- 2 were burned in Waldsee, Germany
1588- Alison Pearson is burned in Scotland. 1 burned in France
1589- 133 persons burned in one day at Quedlinburg, Germany, 48 burned in Wurttemberg, Germany, 2 burned at Cologne, Germany, 3 hung in Chelsford, England, 3 were burned in Waldsee, Germany. Peter Stubb is executed as a werewolf near Cologne, Germany
1590- 54 burned in Franconia
1590-1600- In Brunswick average of 10 people a day were burned, Over 300 burned in Switzerland. The North Berwick Witches were put on trial. The trial concluded in 1591.
1591- Euphemia Macalzean burned alive in Scotland for witchcraft. Agnes Sampsoune tried, strangled, burnt & 3 are hanged 1 is burned as a witch in Scotland, 1 burned in Holland
1592- Abel de la Rue, of Coulommiers, France, accused of witchcraft
1593- Condemnation for witchcraft of three members of the Samuels family in Warboys, England. One “Rosseau and his daughter”, of France, accused of witchcraft
1594- 2 are burned at Waldsee, Germany & Alison Balfour is burned at Edinburgh, Scotland
1595- 9 executed in Toulouse, France, 3 executed in England
1596- Isabel Cockie burnt as a witch, at a cost of 105 s. 4 p. The Sieur de Beaumont accused of witchcraft & 2 people are executed in Scotland
1597- The Dean of Guild, William Dun, granted 47 pounds, three shillings, and 4 pence for “the great number of witches burnt this year”, 3 people were burned in France, Jacques Roulet is burned alive for being a werewolf, at Angiers, France, & Alse Goodridgeis executed at Darbie, England
1598- 1 burned in Holland, 24 burned in Scotland, Pierre Aupetit is burned at Bordeaux, France
1599- 77 burned in Switzerland, 2 were executed in Germany, & Anne Kerke is executed at Tyburn, England
1600-1680- 40,000 executed in England
1603-1605- 205 burned at the Abbey of Fulda, Germany
1603- Mary Pannel executed in Yorkshire, England
1604- The blood secret of Countess Erzsebet Bathori (Elizabeth Bathory) of Hungary, who believed that by bathing in the blood of virgin girls she would stay eternally youthful. She was denounced as a witch and executed in 1611.
1606- Joanna Harrisson and her daughter were executed in Hertford, England
1607- Many “witches” executed in Derbyshire, England, 24 burned + 3 suicides in Hagenau, Alsace. Isobel Grierson burned in Scotland
1608- Publication of Compendium Maleficarum , by Francesco Maria Guazzo, 1 burned alive by a mob in France, Beigis Tod & several women burned in Scotland
1610-1840- Over 22,000 executed in Bamberg, Germany, Mr. & Mrs. Dorlady were burned alive in France
1611- The Basque Trials. These were trials where the traditional burning was halted by a Spanish Inquisitor named Antonio Salazar de Frias who, after much deliberation and methodical research into the stories of witchcraft, decided that the men and women charged were under a form of mass hysteria and were protecting each other, that “witches” were not harmful, merely delusional, and needed help, not condemnation. Execution of Louis Gaufiedi, for witchcraft. The King James version of the Bible was published.
1612- Execution of the 10 in Lancashire 5 in Northhampton 1 in Lancaster & 1 in York “Witches”
1613- 2 people executed in Bedford, England
1615- One “Leclerc” is condemned for witchcraft, in France & Joan Hunt was hanged in Middlesex, England
1616- A man named Leger condemned for witchcraft in France, 12 hanged in England, 18 killed at Orleans, France
1617- Leonora Galigai beheaded in France>
1618- 8 hanged in France
1619- Etienne Audibert condemned for witchcraft in France, 5 were executed in England one died while in prison
1619- Several witches condemned in Nerac, France, Over 200 executed in Labourt, France
1620- 2 burned in France
1621- Bessie Harlow, Bessie Chalmers, Beatrice Mundie, Christiane Hamyltoun, Margaret Kent, and Marioun Chatto tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland, Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn, England
1622- 13 burned alive in Scotland, Anne de Chantraine burned as a witch in France
1624- 2 executed in England
1626- George Haan his wife, son and daughter were burned alive in Germany
1626-1631- 900 executions at Bamberg, Germany, 79 burned at Offenburg, Austria, 85 burned in Dieburg, Germany, 168 executions in Miltenberg, Germany, 8 executions in Prozelten and Amorbach, Germany, 40 executions at Berndit, Buttan, Ebenheit, Wenchdorf and Heinbach, Germany, 77 executions in Burgstadt, Germany, 56 executions in Mainz, Germany
1627- Catherine Hennot burned alive in Germany
1628- Execution of Johannes Junius of Bamberg, as a witch, another person was burned in France, before his death he wrote his daughter a letter.
1628-1629- 1 person hung himself in prison, 3 people were burned alive, 73 people (including children) behead in Wurzburg, Germany
1629- Salem Mass is settled, 274 executed in Germany, Alexander Hunter burned at Edinburgh, Scotland
1630- 1 hanged in England, 1 strangled in Germany, 124 executed by the Teutonic Order in Germany
1631- 3 executed in Germany, 1 in France and 1 in England
1633- Anna Pomp is executed in Germany
1634- Urbain Grandier burned in France
1640-1651- 30 burned in Germany, 900 killed in France, 30,000 (approx) burned by the Inquisition (not all may have been witches), 3-4000 killed during Cromwell’s tenure in England
1640- a man was stoned to death by a mob at St. Paul’s Cross, England
1641- English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
1643- 7 people burned in Scotland
1644- Archibald and Thomas Wanderson ordered to pay one hundred marks fine for court expenses to try their wives as witches. The wives were executed in England
1645- 150 killed. 29 condemned & 20 executed, on the evidence of Matthew Hopkins in England, 2 others were executed in England. Beginning of the The New England witch trials, including that of Margaret Jones. These trails officially ended in 1692.
1646- a person was executed in Suffolk, England
1647- 5 people were beheaded and burned in Italy, Thomas Boulle was burned alive in France & Alse Younge was hanged in Connecticut, North America
1648- Margaret Jones was executed in Charlestown, North America
1648-1650- Over 220 killed in England & Scotland, on evidence of a Scottish Witch finder
1648- 2 executed in England
1649- 17 hanged in England. Torture of accused witches outlawed in Scotland.
1650- A letter was sent to the Berwickshire (Scotland) Naturalists’ Club inviting them to attend the judging and burning of some witches, 2 killed by a mob in France, Joan Allen was hanged in England
1652- 10 people are hanged in England. Torture of accused witches outlawed for the first time in England.
1653- 2 women are hanged in England
1654- 102 burned in Germany. Torture of accused witches outlawed in Brandenburg.
1655- A mother and daughter were hung in England
1656- Anne Hibbins was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts
1657-Jennette Huart-March and others strangled and burned as witches in Sugny, Belgium.
1658- 8 burned in Scotland, 3 executed in England
1660- Elizabeth Brose was tortured to death in the castle of Gommern, Germany
1661- Jonet Allen burned in Scotland
1662- The trial of Amy Denny and Rose Cullender of Lowestoft, who were tried as witches and executed at Bury St Edmunds in that March. Also, torture was outlawed in England for the second time. A person was hanged in Hartford, New England.
1663- Cotton Mather was born. He defended the trials and executions in New England. He died in 1728. Julian Cox executed in England, a person was burned in Germany.
1664- Elizabeth Style dies in prison in England, 2 women executed in England
1670- 3 burned in Scotland
1670- 85 executed Sweden
1674- Anne Foster is hanged in England
1674-1677- 71 beheaded or burned in Sweden
1678- 90 burned in Austria, 11 burned in Scotland
1680- 36 executed France, 6 burned in Scotland, Emerenziana Pichler & her 2 sons (12 and 14 yr old) burned in Germany
1682- Torture of accused witches outlawed in France. 3 are hung in Bideford, England
1683-1684- Salem Jail is built,
1684- England declares that the colonies may not self-govern.
1684-1685- Several people are burned in France
1687- Suzanna, Isle & Catherine (sir names unknown) executed in Germany
1688- Following an argument with laundress Goody Glover; Martha Goodwin begin exhibiting bizarre behavior. Days later her younger brother and two sisters exhibited similar behavior. Glover was arrested and tried for bewitching the Goodwin children. Reverend Cotton Mather meets twice with Glover following her arrest in an attempt to persuade her to repent her witchcraft. Glover is hanged. Mather takes Martha Goodwin into his house. Her bizarre behavior continues and worsens.
1688- Cotton Mather publishes Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions
1689 (November)- Samuel Parris is named the new minister of Salem. Parris moves to Salem from Boston.
1690-1694- 36 burned in Germany
October 16, 1691- Villagers vow to drive Parris out of Salem and stop contributing to his salary.
January 20, 1692- Nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. Within a short time, Ann Putnam Jr. & several other Salem girls began to demonstrate similar behavior.
Mid-February, 1692- Doctor Griggs, who attends to the “afflicted” girls, suggests that witchcraft may be the cause of their strange behavior or that the girls were under the influence of Satan.
February 25, 1692- Tituba, at the request of neighbor Mary Sibley, bakes a “witch cake” and feeds it to a dog. According to an English folk remedy, feeding a dog this kind of cake, which contained the urine of the afflicted, would counteract the spell put on Elizabeth and Abigail. The reason the cake is fed to a dog is because the dog is believed a “familiar” of the Devil.
Late-February, 1692- Prayer services and community fasting were conducted by Reverend Samuel Parris in hopes of relieving the evil forces that plagued them. In an effort to expose the “witches”, John Indian baked a witch cake made with rye meal and the afflicted girls’ urine. This counter-magic was meant to reveal the identities of the “witches” to the afflicted girls.
Pressured to identify the source of their affliction, the girls named three women, including Tituba, Parris’ Caribbean Indian slave, as witches.
February 29, 1692- Arrest warrants are issued for Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Although Osborne and Good maintained innocence, Tituba confessed to seeing the devil who appeared to her “sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog”. What’s more, Tituba testified that there was a conspiracy of witches at work in Salem.
March 1, 1692- Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne for “witches teats.” at the meeting house in Salem Village. Tituba confesses to practicing witchcraft and confirms Good and Osborne are her co- conspirators.
Over the next weeks, other townspeople came forward and testified that they, too, had been harmed by or had seen strange apparitions of some of the community members. As the witch hunt continued, accusations were made against many different people.
Frequently denounced were women whose behavior or economic circumstances were somehow disturbing to the social order and conventions of the time. Some of the accused had previous records of criminal activity, including witchcraft, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high standing in the community.
March 11, 1692- Ann Putnam Jr. shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft. Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Mary Warren later allege affliction as well.
March 12, 1692- Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Martha Cory of witchcraft.
March 19. 1692- Abigail Williams denounces Rebecca Nurse as a witch.
March 21, 1692- Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Cory.
March 23, 1692- Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorcas Good.
March 24, 1692- Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse.
March 26, 1692- Hathorne and Corwin interrogate Dorcas.
March 28, 1692- Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft.
April 3, 1692- Sarah Cloyce, after defending her sister, Rebecca Nurse, is accused of witchcraft.
April 11, 1692- Hathorne, Corwin, Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth, and Captain Samuel Sewall examine Sarah Cloyce and Elizabeth Proctor. On the same day Elizabeth’s husband, John Proctor, who protested the examination of his wife, becomes the first man accused of witchcraft and is incarcerated.
Early April, 1692- The Proctors’ servant and accuser, Mary Warren, admits lying and accuses the other accusing girls of lying.
April 13, 1692- Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Giles Cory of witchcraft and alleges that a man who died at Cory’s house also haunts her.
April 19, 1692- Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory and Mary Warren are examined. Deliverance Hobbs confesses to practicing witchcraft. Mary Warren reverses her statement made in early April and rejoins the accusers. William Hobbs “I can deny it to my dying day.”
April 22, 1692- Mary Easty, another of Rebecca Nurse’s sisters who defended her, is examined by Hathorne and Corwin. Hathorne and Corwin also examine Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English. Only Nehemiah Abbott was cleared of charges.
April 30, 1692- Several girls accuse former Salem minister George Burroughs of witchcraft.
May 2, 1692- Hathorne and Corwin examine Sarah Morey, Lyndia Dustin, Susannah Martin and Dorcas Hoar. Dorcas Hoar “I will speak the truth as long as I live.”
May 4, 1692- George Burroughs is arrested in Wells, Maine.
May 7, 1692- George Burroughs is returned to Salem and placed in jail.
May 9, 1692- Corwin, Hathorne, Sewall, and William Stoughton examine Burroughs and Sarah Churchill. Burroughs is moved to a Boston jail.
May 10, 1692- Corwin and Hathorne examine George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs. Margaret confessed and testified that her grandfather and George Burroughs were both witches.
Margaret Jacobs “… They told me if I would not confess I should be put down into the dungeon and would be hanged, but if I would confess I should save my life.”
- Sarah Osborne dies in prison in Boston.
May 14, 1692- Increase Mather (who recently returned from England) and Sir William Phipps, the newly elected governor of the colony, arrive in Boston. They bring with them a charter ending the 1684 prohibition of self-governance within the colony.
May 18, 1692- Mary Easty is released from prison. Following protest by her accusers, she is again arrested. Roger Toothaker is also arrested on charges of witchcraft.
May 27, 1692- Governot Phipps issues a commission for a Court of Oyer and Terminer and appoints as judges John Hathorne, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop, and Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton.
These magistrates based their judgments and evaluations on various kinds of intangible evidence, including direct confessions, supernatural attributes (such as “witchmarks”), and reactions of the afflicted girls. Spectral evidence, based on the assumption that the Devil could assume the “specter” of an innocent person, was relied upon despite its controversial nature.
May 31, 1692- Hathorne, Corwin and Gednew examine Martha Carrier, John Alden, Wilmott Redd, Elizabeth Howe and Phillip English. English and Alden later escape prison and do not return to Salem until after the trials end.
June 2, 1692- Initial session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Bridget Bishop was the first to be pronounced guilty of witchcraft and condemned to death. Early June Soon after Bridget Bishop’s trial, Nathaniel Saltonstall resigned from the court, dissatisfied with its proceedings.
June 8, 1692- Eighteen year old Elizabeth Booth shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft.
June 10, 1692- Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill. Bridget Bishop “I am no witch. I am innocent. I know nothing of it.” Following her death, accusations of witchcraft escalated, but the trials were not unopposed. Several townspeople signed petitions on behalf of accused people they believed to be innocent.
Corwin replaces Nathaniel Saltonstall on the court.
June 15, 1692- Cotton Mather writes a letter requesting the court not use spectral evidence as a standard and urging that the trials be speedy. The Court of Oyer and Terminer pays more attention to the request for speed and less attention to the criticism of spectral evidence.
June 16, 1692- Roger Toothaker dies in prison.
June 29-30, 1692- Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good, and Elizabeth Howe are tried, pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.
Rebecca Nurse “Oh Lord, help me! It is false. I am clear. For my life now lies in your hands….”
Mid-July 1692- In an effort to expose the witches afflicting his life, Joseph Ballard of nearby Andover enlisted the aid of the accusing girls of Salem. This action marked the beginning of the Andover witch hunt.
July 19, 1692- Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes are hanged at Gallows Hill.
Elizabeth Howe “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent…” Susannah Martin “I have no hand in witchcraft.”
August 2-6 George Jacobs, Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and John Willard were tried for witchcraft and condemned.
Martha Carrier “…I am wronged. It is a shameful thing that you should mind these folks that are out of their wits.”
August 19, 1692- George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John Proctor are hanged on Gallows Hill. Elizabeth Proctor is not hanged because she is pregnant.
George Jacobs “Because I am falsely accused. I never did it.”
August 20, 1692- Margaret Jacobs recants the testimony that led to the execution of her grandfather George Jacobs Sr. and Burroughs.
September 9, 1692- Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.
Mary Bradbury “I do plead not guilty. I am wholly innocent of such wickedness.”
Mid-September, 1692- Giles Cory is indicted.
September 17, 1692- Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs are tried and sentenced to hang.
September 19, 1692- Sheriffs administer Piene Forte Et Dure (pressing) to Giles Cory after he refuses to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him. After two days under the weight, Cory dies.
September 21 Dorcas Hoar was the first of those pleading innocent to confess. Her execution was delayed.
September 22, 1692- Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged.
October 3, 1692- The Reverend Increase Mather, President of Harvard College and father to Cotton Mather, denounces the use of spectral evidence.
October 8, 1692- After 20 people had been executed in the Salem witch hunt, Thomas Brattle wrote a letter criticizing the witchcraft trials. This letter had great impact on Governor Phipps, who ordered that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in trials.
October 29, 1692- Phipps prohibits further arrests, releases many accused witches, and dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
November 25, 1692- The General Court of the colony created the Superior Court to try the remaining witchcraft cases which took place in May, 1693. This time no one was convicted.
Mary Easty- “…if it be possible no more innocent blood be shed…
…I am clear of this sin.”
January 3, 1693- Judge Stoughton orders execution of all suspected witches who were exempted by their pregnancy. Phipps denied enforcement of the order causing Stoughton to leave the bench.
January 1693- 49 of the 52 surviving people brought into court on witchcraft charges are released because their arrests were based on spectral evidence.
1693- Tituba is released from jail and sold to a new master. Someone is executed in England
May 1693- Phipps pardons those still in prison on witchcraft charges.
January 14, 1697- The General Court orders a day of fasting and soul-searching for the tragedy at Salem. Moved, Samuel Sewall publicly confesses error and guilt.
1697- Minister Samuel Parris is ousted as minister in Salem and replaced by Joseph Green. 5 burned & John Reid hangs himself in prison; in Scotland.
1698- 9 persons (all under 16) burned in Germany
1699- 1 burned in Ireland
1702- The General Court declares the 1692 trials unlawful.
1704- Janet Corset is killed by a mob at Pittenweem, Scotland
1705- Many burned in Scotland
1706- Ann Putnam Jr., one of the leading accusers, publicly apologizes for her actions in 1692.
1711- The colony passes a legislative bill restoring the rights and good names of those accused of witchcraft and grants 600 pounds in restitution to their heirs.
1716-1717- 2 persons killed in Austria
1718- 1 executed in France
1722- a mother and daughter, burned in Scotland
1730- 1 burned in Hungary
1738- 13 burned alive in Hungary
1744- 3 burned in Germany
1746- 3 burned in Germany, 1 executed in Hungary
1749- Renata von Mossau is beheaded and burned in Bavaria, Germany
1751- A husband and wife are killed by a mob in Herefordshire, England, Anna Bayerin is executed at Salzburg, Austria
1752- Salem Village is renamed Danvers. 1 executed at Maros Vasarheli
1772-1779- Over 100 executed in Germany
1782-Supposely Last witch burned in Europe (?), Anna Goeldi is hanged at Glaris, Switzerland
1792-1793- The last trial and judicial execution in Europe itself was probably that of two aged women, allegedly Satanists, who were burned at the stake in Poland.
1800’s- Several burned in South America
1808- Alice Russel is killed by a mob at Great Paxton, England
1863- The Salem jail was purchased by Abner Goodell, the state historian.
1875- Ann Turner is murdered in England
1920- Joan of Arc declared a saint.
1922- A person is murdered at St. Georges, France
1925- A man shot by the police accused of being a werewolf
1929- Montague Summers writes introductions for old books used for Inquisition praising their works. (Throughout the 1900s) Old people, mostly women, are being killed as witches in South Africa
1935- In response to the public the Goodell’s opened the Salem jail to the public
1957- Massachusetts formally apologizes for the events of 1692.
1992- On the 300th anniversary of the trials, a witchcraft memorial designed by James Cutler is dedicated in Salem.
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