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Girls Strange Behiviors
Eleven-year-old Abigail Williams and nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris begin behaving oddly. People start to wonder. Soon Ann Putnam Jr. and other Salem girls begin acting similarly. -
Doctor Checks out Girls Condition
In mid february, a doctor claimed to be Doctor Griggs, checks out the girls condition and diagnois them to be affiliated to witchcraft. -
Girls Confess
With alot of pressure from the towns people, Elizabeth Parris identifies Tituba. The girls later accuse Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne of witchcraft aswell. -
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Interrogation
Some magistrates named John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin interrogate Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba due to the odd occurrences happening over the past couple of days. Tiuba then confessed to the witch craft and also confessed that Osborne and Good were her sidekicks in the witchcraft. -
Judges are appointed
Judges get picked to overlook and judge the trails.. Judges were John Hathorne, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, and Samuel Sewall. -
Judges Begin To Examine People
Judges Hathorne, Corwin and Gednew begin to examine Martha Carrier, John Alden, Wilmott Redd, Elizabeth Howe and Phillip English for signs of witchcraft. Alden and English later escape from prison and do not return. -
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop is the first to be tried and convicted of witchcraft. She is then sentenced to death. (Hanged) -
Elizabeth Booth
An eightteen year old girl named Elizabeth Booth, is accused of witchcraft. -
Hanged
Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill. Following the hanging, Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns from the court and is replaced by Corwin. -
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather writes a letter to the court. The letter said to make the trails more speedy and not listen to the case itself as much. Basically, get rid of them fast. -
Roger Toothaker
Roger Toothaker dies in prison. -
New Ideas
Chris Anzivino comes to Massachusetts. He brings new Italian ideas on witchcraft. -
Five are hung
Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes are hanged at Gallows Hill. -
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Five more are found guilty
Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good and Elizabeth Howe are tried in court, pronounced guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. -
More convictions
George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard, and John and Elizabeth Proctor are pronounced guilty in court and sentenced to a death hanging. -
Disagreements
Margaret Jacobs tells the court that she no longer believes or agrees in the testimony that led to the execution of her grandfather George Jacobs Sr. and George Burroughs. -
More are sentenced to hanging
Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang. -
Pressed and Hanged
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. Giles Corey refuses to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him. He was later pressed and killed by Sheriffs administer Peine Forte Et Dure. -
Robert Mailea
Robert Mailea is accused of being a witch -
Hanged and Excussed
Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell and Mary Parker are hanged. Dorcas Hoar escapes execution by -
One More
Giles Corey is acussed of witchcraft. -
Arrests Stop
Phips prohibits further arrests, and releases many accused witches. -
Superior Court
The Massachusetts General Court establishes a Superior Court to pardon remaining witches. -
Surviors are realesed
49 of the 52 surviving people brought into court on witchcraft charges are released because their arrests were based on "spectral evidence." -
Ann Putnam
Ann Putnam Jr. stands before her church and offers an apology for her part in the witch trials.
