The Salem Witch Trials (In Our Time)
1692 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692-3, centred on Salem, which led to the execution of twenty people, with more dying in prison before or after trial. Some were men, including Giles Corey who died after being pressed with heavy rocks, but the majority were women. At its peak, around 150 people were suspected
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Around 1692
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)