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https://historyofmassachusetts.org/timeline-of-the-salem-witch-trials/

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Parliament passes the Witchcraft Act of 1542 which is England’s first witchcraft law and makes the crime punishable by death.

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Parliament repeals the Witchcraft Act of 1547.

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Parliament passes a new Witchcraft Act of 1562.

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Parliament passes the Witchcraft At of 1604. The Witchcraft Acts of 1562 and 1604 transfer the trial of witches from the Church to the ordinary courts.

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Naumkeag is settled by a group of settlers led by Roger Conant, after they abandoned their original settlement in Gloucester. Conant serves as the settlement’s governor.

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John Endicott and a group of settlers from the New England Company arrive with a patent from England that gives them legal rights to Naumkeag. Conant peacefully surrenders control of Naumkeag to Endicott.

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Naumkeag is renamed Salem in honor of the peaceful agreement between Endicott and Conant.

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A small group of colonists settle an area just outside of Salem town which becomes Salem Village.

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1641, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony drafts the Body of Liberties which is modeled on the Witchcraft Law of 1604 and makes witchcraft, among several other crimes, a capital offense punishable by death.

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In 1662, Sir Matthew Hale solidifies the legal credibility of spectral evidence in witchcraft cases by allowing it in the Bury St. Edmund case in England, thus setting a precedent to be used at Salem in 1692.

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Mary “Goody” Glover is convicted of witchcraft for afflicting the children of John Goodwin in Boston. The symptoms that the Goodwin children experienced are well documented in a book by Cotton Mather, titled Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, and are later seen in the afflicted girls of Salem Village.

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In April of 1689, Reverend Samuel Parris is named the new minister at Salem Village.

On November 19, 1689, Reverend Samuel Parris is ordained as the new minister at Salem Village.

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On October 16, 1691, at a town meeting, some residents of Salem Village begin to turn on Reverend Samuel Parris and vow to stop paying his salary.

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On January 15-19, 1692, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams begin to have fits and exhibit strange behavior. Soon Ann Putnam, Jr, and other Salem village girls begin displaying similar behavior.

On February 25, 1692, two others girls in Salem Village, Ann Putnam Jr and Elizabeth Hubbard, also begin to show signs of affliction.

In late February of 1692, Dr. William Griggs reportedly examines the girls but is unable to determine the cause of the strange behavior and suggests they are under the influence of Satan.

On February 29, 1692, the girls accuse three women, Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of witchcraft. Arrest warrants are issued for the women.

On March 1, 1692, Judge John Hathorne and Judge Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, at the Salem Village Meetinghouse. During the examination, Tituba confesses to being a witch and tells the court there are many witches in Salem.

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On March 12, 1692, Martha Corey is accused of witchcraft.

On March 19, 1692, Rebecca Nurse is accused of witchcraft.

On April 4, 1692, Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft.

On April 18, 1692, Bridget Bishop, Abigail Hobbs, Mary Warren and Giles Corey are accused of witchcraft.

On April 22, 1692, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Mary Black, Mary English and Sarah Wildes are arrested on charges of witchcraft and examined by Judge Hathorne and Judge Corwin.

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On April 22, 1692, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Mary Black, Mary English and Sarah Wildes are arrested on charges of witchcraft and examined by Judge Hathorne and Judge Corwin.

On May 2, 1692, Dorcas Hoar, Lydia Dustin, Sarah Morey and Susannah Martin are arrested on charges of witchcraft and examined by Judge Hathorne and Judge Corwin.

On May 4, 1692, George Burroughs is accused of witchcraft and is arrested in Wells, Maine.

On May 10, 1692, George Jacobs, Sr, and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs are arrested on charges of witchcraft and examined by Judge Hathorne and Judge Corwin.

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On May 18, 1692, Mary Easty is released from prison but is arrested a second time after her accusers protest her release.

On May 18, 1692, Roger Toothaker is accused of witchcraft and is arrested.

On May 27, 1692, seven judges are appointed to the Court of Oyer and Terminer: Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Waitstill Winthrop, John Richards and John Hathorne. Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton is named the Chief Justice.

On June 2, 1692, Bridget Bishop is pronounced guilty of witchcraft and condemned to death. After Bridget Bishop’s trial, Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns from the court and is replaced by Judge Corwin.

On July 22, 1692, Martha Emerson, daughter of Roger Toothaker, is accused of witchcraft.

On July 30, 1692, Mary Toothaker is arrested .

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On August 2-6, 1692, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr, Martha Carrier, John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor, and John Willard are tried for witchcraft, found guilty and condemned.

On September 1, 1692, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wardwell, Mercy Wardwell and Sarah Hawkes, Jr, are accused of witchcraft and arrested.

On September 3, 1692, Margaret Prince and Elizabeth Dicer of Gloucester are accused of witchcraft by the Salem village girls and are arrested.

On September 6-12, 1692, Mary Easty, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, Mary Bradbury and Dorcas Hoar are tried and condemned.

On September 11, 1692, Martha Corey is excommunicated from the Salem Village church.

On September 11, 1692, Martha Corey is excommunicated from the Salem Village church.

On September 14, 1692, Reverend Samuel Parris, Lieutenant Nathaniel Putnam and two deacons visit Martha Corey in prison and inform her she has been excommunicated.

On September 13-17, 1692, Wilmot Redd, Mary Parker, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Rebecca Eames, Abigail Faulkner, Mary Lacy, Abigail Hobbs and Ann Foster are tried and condemned.

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On September 21, 1692, Dorcas Hoar confesses. Her execution is delayed.

On September 22, 1692, Martha Corey, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, Ann Pudeator, Mary Easty, Samuel Wardwell, Wilmot Redd and Mary Parker are hanged at Proctor’s Ledge. These are the last hangings to take place during the Salem Witch Trials.

On November 14, 1692, Sarah Noyes Hale, wife of Reverend John Hale, is named as a witch but is never formally charged or arrested.

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On September 19, 1692, Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea.

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On May 20, 1692, Sarah Osborne dies in prison.

On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop is hanged at Proctor’s Ledge in Salem. Her hanging is the first official execution of the Salem witch trials.

On June 16, 1692, Roger Toothaker dies in prison.

On June 29-30, 1692, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wildes are tried for witchcraft, found guilty and condemned.

On July 19, 1692, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are hanged at Proctor’s Ledge in Salem.

On August 19, 1692, John Proctor, George Jacobs Sr, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, and John Willard are hanged at Proctor’s Ledge.

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In January-February of 1693, 52 of the remaining accused are tried and Stoughton finds three of them guilty and adds them to the list of the other five witches awaiting execution. Governor Phips grants a stay of execution for the prisoners, upon advice from the attorney general to the King and Queen, which angers Stoughton.

On April 15, 1693, Queen Mary issues a royal letter, drafted by the Earl of Nottingham, to Governor Phip ordering that he stop all witchcraft trials.

In May of 1693, Governor Phips receives instructions from England to end the trials and all proceedings. Phips issues a proclamation stopping all further court proceedings against accused witches and pardons the remaining accused in jail.

On July 27 or 30, 1693, Governor Phips receives the letter from Queen Mary which confirms his decision to end the Salem Witch Trials.

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In October of 1696, Samuel Parris is dismissed as minister of Salem Village.

On June 10, 1696, Elizabeth Proctor becomes the first victim to petition the court to clear her name. The petition was ignored by the court.

On June 13, 1700, Abigail Faulkner becomes the second victim to petition the court to clear her name. The petition was not granted

In 1703, Abigail Faulkner and her husband file another petition to the court asking to clear her name as well as the names of Samuel and Sarah Wardwell, Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty, Mary Parker, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and Elizabeth Howe.

In July of 1703, the General Court grants the petition and clears the names of Abigail Faulkner, Sarah Wardwell and Elizabeth Proctor.

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In 1704, in a letter to Increase Mather, Reverend Michael Wigglesworth of Malden states that he fears God has placed a curse on New England for “what was done in the time of the witchcraft. I fear that innocent blood hath been shed, and that many have had their hands defiled therewith” and calls for a public acknowledgement of wrongdoing, a day of humiliation and restitution to the victims and their families.

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Ann Putnam, Jr, publicly apologizes for her role in the Salem Witch Trials.

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On October 17, 1711, the General Court passes a bill restoring the rights and good names of the accused. Some of the victim’s families do not wish to be named in the bill and do not seek restitution.

On December 17, 1711, the General Court grants £578 in restitution to the victim’s heirs.

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On March 2, 1712, the Salem Town Church votes in favor of rescinding the excommunication of Rebecca Nurse and Giles Corey.

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In 1867, historian Charles W. Upham’s book Salem Witchcraft is published. In the book, Upham incorrectly identifies Gallows Hill as the site of the Salem Witch Trials executions.

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In January of 1921, historian Sidney Perley writes an article, titled “Where the Salem Witches Were Hanged,” in the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute periodical in which he identifies Proctor’s Ledge as the site of the Salem Witch Trials executions.

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On January 22, 1953, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible debuts on Broadway. The play is a dramatized and partially fictionalized account of the Salem Witch Trials, which serve as an allegory for the McCarthy hearings. The play is a success and sparks public interest in the Salem Witch Trials.

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In the fall of 1970, popular television show, Bewitched, airs several episodes about the Salem Witch Trials which were filmed in Salem, Mass. In the episodes, Samantha time travels back to 1692 and tells the Salem judges “The people that you persecuted were guiltless. They were mortals, just like yourselves. You are the guilty,” The episodes cause a surge in public interest in the trials and Salem soon becomes a popular tourist destination.

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In August of 1992, on the 300th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial is dedicated by Nobel Laureate Eli Wiesel.

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In January of 2016, the Gallows Hill Project confirms that Proctor’s Ledge is the site of the Salem Witch Trials executions.

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On July 19, 2017, the Proctor’s Ledge Memorial is dedicated on the 325th anniversary of the hangings of Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes.