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1647
Alice Young hung in Hartford

    

1648
Massachusetts executes Margaret Jones

   
    
   

1656
Ann Hibbens executed.

    

1662
Beginning of Hartford witch outbreak.

   
    
   

1671
Elizabeth Knapp "possessed of the Devil"

    

1692
Salem Witch Trials

   
   

1692
Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World"

    

1697
Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials

   
    
   

1700
Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World"

    

1702
John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"

   
    
   

1711
Massachusetts begins compensating victims of Salem witch trials.

    

1764
Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"

   
    
   

1820
Witch of New England published

1820
Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted

   
    
   

1823
Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted

    

1829
Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America"

   
    
   

1831
Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"

1831
John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"

   
    
   

1847
John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"

    

1848
Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York

   
    
   

1851
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

    

1889
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant

   
    
   

1908
House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

    

1953
Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"

   
    
   

1996
The Crucible filmed


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