Salem Witch Trials

Elizabeth Parris and her cousin, Abigil Williams, began acting strangely

The First of the Salem Witch Trials takes place

Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osburn are taken to jail after being found guilty of practicing witchcraft

Sixty-four more people are accused of witchcraft and taken to prison

Sarah Osborne dies in prison

Bridget Bishop becomes the first woman to be hung in Salem for witchcraft

Many more women were tried and sentenced to death by hanging

An afflicted girl in Andover accused a neighbor's dog of trying to bewitch her

Phipps** forbids imprisonment of anyone else for witchcraft

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