February: Tituba, Parris' slave, bakes a "witch cake" with the girls. Accusations of witchcraft are made against Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne.
March 1-5: Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne are brought before magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathon Corwin in the Salem meetinghouse. Tituba alone confesses, and the three are sent to prison.
March 6-19: The first respectable church member, Martha Corey, is accused of witchcraft. Betty Parris is sent to live with Stephen Sewall in Salem Town.
March 19: Dr. Deodat Lawson arrives in Salem Village.
March 21: Martha Corey is examined, convicted, and sent to prison.
March 21-23: Ann Putnam Sr. becomes the first adult to join the afflicted girls in their fits. Seventy-one year old Rebecca Nurse is accused.
March 24: Rebecca Nurse and Dorcas Good, Sarah Good's four-and-a-half-year-old daughter are convicted and sent to prison.
April: By the end of the month John and Elizabeth Proctor, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, Mary and Phillip English, George Burroughs, and fourteen others have been convicted and imprisoned. Of the eleven accusations, four have been made by Thomas Putnam, Ann Putnam's father.
May: At least thirty-nine more people are imprisoned by the end of the month.
May 14: A new provincial charter is issued for Massachutes, and Sir William Phipps becomes the new governor.
June 10: Bridget Bishop is hanged on Gallows Hill, and Magistrate Nathaliel Saltonstall resigns from the court in protest.
June 29: Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are convicted of witchcraft. (Rebecca Nurse was actually acquitted, but the judges requested the jury reconsider, which they did and found her guilty.)
July 19: Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes die on Gallows Hill.
August 5: Six more are accused: George Burroughs, John and Elizabeth Proctor, John Willard, George Jacobs, and Martha Carrier.
August 19: George Burroughs, John Proctor, John Willard, George Jacobs, and Martha Carrier are hanged. Elizabeth Proctor is spared for pregnancy.
September 9: Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorca Hoar, and Mary Bradbury are convicted and sentenced to death.
September 17: Margaret Scott, Wilmot Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Falkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs are sentenced death. The last five are spared because they confessed, Abigail Falkner because of pregnancy. Giles Corey refuses to stand trial. (Ann Foster dies in prison on December 3, 1692)
September 19: Giles Corey is pressed to death.
September 22: Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Redd, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged. These are the last hangings.
October: Andover and Gloucester send for the afflicted girls. More the fifty are accused, but many are spared because they confessed. The girls, however, have overreached themselves by naming several prominent people, including Lady Phipps, the governor's wife.
Octover 3: Increase Mather delivers a sermon titled Cases of Conscience concerning Evil Spirits Perosnating Men, which casts serious doubt on spectral evidence, the basis for the witchtrials, and says, "It were better that ten suspected witches should escape, than that one innocent person should be condemned."
October 12: Governor Phipps forbids further imprisonments for witchcraft.
October 29: Governor Phipps formally dissolves the witchcraft courts.
November: The girls are sent for again by Glouchester, but when their fits are ignored they withdraw.
April 25: The Superior Court sits in Boston. No guilty verdicts are returned.
Samuel Parris reluctantly leaves the Salem Village church and
village.
Ann Putnam apologizes to the Salem Village Church for causing
innocent deaths and says it was due to a "great delusion of
Satan."
