March 1^st: Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathon Corwin examine Tituba, Good and Osborne in a meetinghouse in Salem Village. Tituba confesses to witchcraft. Many people come forward during the next few weeks testifying that they too had been harmed and make accusations against various people in the village. Women whose behavior and economic circumstances that "disturbed" the social order or conventions of the time were often accused of Witchcraft.

March 12^th: Martha Corey is accused of witchcraft

March 19^th: Rebecca Nurse is accused of witchcraft

March 21^st: Martha Corey examined before Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin

March 24^th: Rebecca Nurse examined before Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin

March 28^th: Elizabeth Proctor denounced as a witch.

April 3^rd: Sarah Cloyce, Rebecca Nurse’s sister, accused of witchcraft

April 11^th: Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce examined before Hathorne, Corwin, Deputy governor Thomas Danforth, and Captain Samuel Sewall. During the examination, John Proctor was also accused and imprisoned.

April 19^th: Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and Mary Warren examined. Abigail Hobbs confesses.

April 22^nd: Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English examined before Hathorne and Corwin. Only Nehemiah Abbott is cleared of charges.

May 2^nd: Sarah Morey, Lydia Dustin, Susannah Marin, and Dorcas Hoar examined by Hathorne and Corwin

May 4^th: George Burroughs arrested in Wells, Maine.

May 9^th: Burroughs examined by Hathorne, Corwin, Sewall, and William Stoughton. One of the afflicted girls, Sarah Churchill, was also examined.

May 10^th: George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret were examined before Hathorne and Corwin. Margaret Confesses and testifies that her grandfather and George Burroughs are both witches.

Sarah Osborne dies in prison in Boston.

May 14^th: Mather returns from England, bringing with him a new charter and the governor, Sir William Phips

May 18^th: Mary Easty released from prison. Yet, she is arrested a second time due to outcries.

May 27^th: Governor Phips establishes a special Court of Oyer and Terminer comprised of seven judges to try the witchcraft cases. Appointed are Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop, John Richards, John Hathorne, and Jonathan Corwin.

May 31^st: Martha Carrier, John Alden, Wilmott Redd, Elizabeth Howe, and Phillip English are examined before Hathorne, Corwin, and Gedney.

June 2^nd: Initial session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Bridget Bishop is the first to be pronounced guilty of witchcraft and condemned to death.

Early June: Soon after Bridget Bishop’s trial, Nathaniel Saltonstall resigned from the court, dissatisfied with its proceedings.

June 10^th: Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, the first official execution of the Salem Witch Trials. Following her death, accusations of witchcraft escalate, but the trials are not unopposed. Several townspeople sign petitions on behalf of accused people they believe to be innocent.

June 29^th – 30^th: Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good and Elizabeth Howe are tried for witchcraft and condemned.

Mid-July: In an effort to expose the witches afflicting his life, Joseph Ballard of nearby Andover enlisted the aid of the accusing girls in Salem. This action mards the beginning of the Andover witch hunt.

July 19^th: Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes are executed.

August 2-6th: George Jacobs, Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and john Willard are tried for witchcraft and condemned.

August 19^th: George Jacobs, Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Proctor, and John Willard are hanged on Gallows Hill.

September 9^th: Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, and Mary Bradbury are tried and condemned.

September 17^th: Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs are tried and condemned.

September 19^th: Giles Corey is pressed to death for refusing a trial.

September 21^st: Dorcas Hoar is the first of those pleading innocent to confess. Her execution is delayed.

September 22^nd: Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged.

October 8^th: After 20 people had been executed in the Salem Witch Hunt, Thomas Brattle writes a letter criticizing the witchcraft trials. This letter has a great impact on Governor Phips, who orders that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in the trials

October 29^th: Governor Phips dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

November 25^th: The General Court of the colony created the Superior court to try the remaining witchcraft cases which took place in May, 1693. This time no one is convicted.