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Dec 2, 1233
Pope Gregory XI
He issued a decree, which led to the persecution of people suspected of witchcraft. -
Aug 2, 1400
Witchcraft trials in Europe
Afflicted people were tortured. Many people admitted to flying on poles, casting spells, and many other things to do with Satan. Witchcraft was starting to become a huge problem. -
Dec 3, 1484
Pope Innocent VIII and Malleus Maleficarum
Pope Innocent said that satanist in Germany were meeting with the devil, and casting spells, and causing women to abort babies. Pope Innocent asked for Jacob Sprenger to write a full report on witchcraft. Soon a few years later the book Malleus Maleficarum was published. This book told many stories about the afflicted women. -
Dec 3, 1530
Witchcraft hysteria
During the mid-1500s in Geneva, Switzerland 500 witches were burned. Some years later in Como, Italy over a 1000 witches were executed. Also during this time, Europe was divided into two religions, Protestants, and Catholics. Both of them took witchcraft very seriously. Many witches were executed. -
Dec 3, 1571
French Hysteria
Trois-Echelles a former accused witch, said that there are over 100 thousand witches in France. Many of those accused were executed. -
Witch hunts begin to decrease in France
In the 1640's the largest witch hunt in France occured. During this time England was very involved with witch hunts too. But by the late 1640's witch hunting in Europe began to decrease. For example Holland had done away with the punishments of the accused witches. -
Witchcraft a capital crime
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Salem witch trials
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Executions
By 1660 there were 80 thousand witches accused, and executed in Europe. 26 thousand of those were in Germany, 10 thousand of those were in France, and 1 thousand in England, and only 4 in Ireland. -
England executes its last witch
Temperance Lloyd the last witch in England to be accused of witchcraft, and the last to be executed.Lord Chief Justice Sir Francis North was a witchcraft critic. He looked into all the details of this women to find her guilty. She was found guilty, but her confession made the details even more true. After this execution witch hunts came to and end, with a new era starting, Englightenment, in the late 1680's. -
Martha Goodwin shows strange behavior
Goody Glover a worker in the Goodwin's house, accused of witchy against the Goodwin children. The evidence behind this would be the strange behavior the children are showing. -
New minster of Salem
Samuel Parris named new minster of Salem. -
More children showing strange behaviors.
Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Parris begin to show strange behaviors, like the behaviors shown by the Goodwin children four years before. Soon after these two girls, even more salem girls begin to show odd behaviors. -
Effect of the strange behaviors
Docter Griggs, the docter who sees the afflicted girls, says that a cause to the girls strange behavior may be from witchcraft. -
tituba
Tituba is requested to bake a cake by Mary Sibely, to help counteract the spell put on Abigail and Elizabeth. She put urine of the afflicted girls into the cake and gave it to a dog. This was an old English remedy. -
John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examinations of accused
John Hathorn and Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne, for showing signs of witchery. Tituba is the only one who confesses to doing witchcraft, and she also said that both Sarah Good, and Osborne are co- conspirators of witchcraft. -
More afflicted girls
Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, Mary walcott show strange behaviors as well. -
The Accused
Elizabeth Proctor is accused committing witchery, along with other people, such as Sarah Good, Martha Cory, Rebecca Nurse, etc. -
John Proctor
On this day John Proctor was the first man accused of witchcraft, because he protested the examinations of his wife. -
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first to be tried, and accused of witchcraft. This day she was also sentenced to death, The 10th she is hanged a Gallows Hill. -
Death sentence
Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good, and Elizabeth Howe are all found guilty this day, and sentenced to hang. -
Death of Rebecca Nurse and others.
Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes are hanged this day. -
John and Elizabeth and others
George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John and Elizabeth Proctor are all found guilty this this day, and are sentenced to hang. -
John hanged, Elizabeth not
George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John Proctor , but Elizabeth is not hanged, because she is found to be pregnant. -
More people found guilty.
Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are all pronounced guilty, and are sentenced to be hanged. -
More people sentenced to hang.
Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs are 9 more people sentenced to hang. -
Giles Corey
Giles Corey is indicted this day. -
Martha Corey and other
Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged. -
Legislature Bill
While many have been accused a few years before in 1711 a Bill is passed restoring the good names of those who were accused during the time of the salem witch trials. -
Massachusetts formally apologizes
Finally over a hundred years, Massachusetts apologizes for the Salem witch trials, and to all the lives lost because of this event.
