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Salem Witch Trials

  • 1692 BCE

    June 2, 1692

    June 2, 1692
    William Phipps creates the court of oyer and terminer.
  • 1655

    1655
    The first american trial and exicution of a witch, Ann Hibbins.
  • 1688

    1688
    Good wife Glover is accused of witchcraft and was hung.
  • February 1692

    February 1692
    Ann Putnam and Elizabeth Hubbard began to start acting strange, the girls began to accuse three women, Tituba, Good, and Osburn
  • March 2-7, 1692

    March 2-7, 1692
    The first of the Salem Witch Trials took place.
  • April 1692

    April 1692
    Twenty three more people were accused and taken to prison for witchcraft.
  • May 1692

    May 1692
    Thirty nine mor people were accused of witchcraft and taken to prison.
  • July - September, 1692

    July - September, 1692
    many more women were tried and sentenced to death by hanging.
  • March first, 1692

    March first, 1692
    The three women that were accused appeared at the tavern where they were practicing witchcraft on the four girls.
  • March 21st, 1692

    March 21st, 1692
    Martha Corey was put on trial and was found guilty of practicing witchcraft, she was also taken to prison
  • March 24th, 1692

    March 24th, 1692
    Sarah Good's four year old daughter and the nurse were put on trial and taken to prison for practicing witchcraft.
  • May 10th, 1692

    May 10th, 1692
    Sarah Osburn dies prison.
  • May 14, 1692

    May 14, 1692
    William Phipps and INcrease Mather arrivee in Salem.
  • June 10, 1692

    June 10, 1692
    Bridget Bishop becomes the first women to be hung in Salem for witchcraft.
  • October 12th, 1692

    October 12th, 1692
    Phipps forbid is imprisonments of anyone else for witchcraft.
  • October 22nd, 1692

    October 22nd, 1692
    Phipps destroys the court of oyer and terminer.
  • May 1693

    May 1693
    Phipps orders the release of the remaining accused witches upon payment of their prison fees.