Jan. 20- Betty Parris becomes sick. Soon other girls become "afflicted."
February- Dr. William Griggs of Salem Village pronounces the girls bewitched.
Feb. 29- Warrants are issued for the arrests of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba.
March 1- Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examine Sarah Good and Sarah
Osborne and Tituba. Tituba confesses.
March- Rebecca Nurse is accused of withcraft by Abigail Williams and later examined
by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin.
April 11- Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce are examined and John Proctor is accused
and imprisoned.
May 4- George Burroughs is arrested in Maine.
May 10- Sarah Osborne dies in prison.
May 14- Mather returns from England with a new governor and a new charter.
May 27- A new court, the Court of Oyer and Terminer, is established for the witchcraft
cases.
June 2- After the first sitting of the court, Bridget Bishop is tried and condemned.
June 10- The first victim, Bridget Bishop, is executed on Gallows Hill in Salem.
July 19- Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes
are executed on Gallows Hill.
Aug. 19- George Jacobs, Marha Carrier, George Burroughts, John Proctor and John Willard
are hanged
Sept. 19- Giles Corey is pressed to death because he refused to stand trial.
Sept. 22- Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Reed,
Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged on Gallows Hill.
October- More people start to speak out against the Salem Witch Trials, particularly
against the use of spectral evidence.
Oct. 29- Governor Phips dissolves the COurt of Oyer and Terminer.
Nov. 25- A Superior Court is created to try the witchcraft cases that remain.
In the following year the court condemns three of the fifty-six suspects and Chief Justice
Stoughton signs death warrants for those three and five others. Later Governor Phips
reprieves them and pardons those still imprisoned. In 1694 Witchcraft is no longer an
actionable legal offense in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
