The Crucible Timeline

The Crucible Timeline

6/19/1692

6/25/1692

6/15/1692

1692

7/15/1692

7/30/1692

Salem witch trial began

After signing the legal document

proctor takes it back he agreed that he did see people with the devil but he never described names so proctor gets taken away by the court and get sentenced to hang.

Tituba was the first person to be accused by Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams of witchcraft., and Tituba was whipped.

Elizabeth goes to jail (She denies that the poppet is hers when Cheever and Herrick come to arrest her, but she doesn’t resist arrest. She asks her husband to come get her out of jail quickly.)

*The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging.

Abgail and the girls were taken into the court room with john and Elizabeth proctor. Mary Warren tells who made the poppet. Abgail and the other girls sense that Mary Warren is cursing them with witchcraft and start seeing yellow light and start copying every word Mary says.

John Proctor tell his wife Elizabeth about his affair with Abgail.

7/30/1692

6/20/1692

7/30/1692

6/25/1692

6/16/1692

6/10/1692

Betty and Abigail get caught dancing in the woods. They began to act sick. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft.

Johm proctor goes into the court and confess his relationship with abgail, and elizabeth goes and confess the relationship and says she has no intention that john proctor had already admitted to adultery.

The day he is supposed to hang, Proctor gets a chance to see his wife Elizabeth.Heavy with emotion, they discuss whether he should confess or not. He says he’s not a good man and it would be a lie to go to the gallows with a good name, so he thinks he should confess.When Elizabeth lets him know that she believes she’s at fault for his adultery, and that she knows he is a good man, he decides that he does, indeed, want to live. So he will confess.However, at the last minute, though he will verbally confess, he doesn’t want to sign his name to a written confession. Why? Because it will mean he sold his friends out, lying about them as well as himself. And so he refuses to confess and goes to his hanging a free man, finally having found “his goodness” again

Betty wakes up in front of a huge group and tell who she saw dancing in the woods with the devil.

Hale uncovers a poppet with a sewing needle in it.He believes the poppet belongs to Elizabeth Proctor but its actually Mary Warren which is Elizabeth`s house keeper.

John proctor confess to Thomas Putman that he never saw anyone with the devil. Then he agreed to sign a legal document for the people of the church that he was sentenced to witchcraft.