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This page has been replaced by http://www.brianpavlac.org/witchhunts/wttmln.html.Timeline for the Witch Hunts,by Brian A. Pavlac, Ph.D., Professor of History |
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This timeline includes a selection of events, people, books and more directly and indirectly related to the Witch Hunts. For further explanations, click on the term, or go to List of Important Events for the Witch Hunts.
GENERAL |
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE |
FRANCE |
BRITAIN |
THE REST OF EUROPE and AMERICA |
1300 |
1300 |
1300 |
Pope John XXII (1316-1334) Hundred Years War (1337-1453) |
Trials of the Templars (1307) | |||
Black Death (1347-1359) Commercial Revolution (1350-1650) |
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Nicolas Eymeric, Directorium inquisitorum (1376) |
1400 |
1400 |
1400 |
1450 |
1450 |
1450 |
Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks (1453) | printing press (ca. 1450-) | Hunts in Arras (1459-1462) | ||
Pope Innocent VIII, Summis desiderantes (1484) | Trials at Innsbruck (1485) | |||
Discovery of the Americas (1492) Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) French Invasion of Italy (1494) |
Henry Krämer
(Institoris) and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum (1486) Ulrich Molitor, De Laniis et pythoncis (1489) |
Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) |
1500 |
1500 |
1500 |
1550 |
1550 |
1550 |
1600 |
1600 |
1600 |
Ellwangen (1611-1618)
Last execution in the Dutch Netherlands (1610) |
Henri Boguet, Discourse on Witches (1602) | King James I Stuart (1603-1625) of Great
Britain: English Witchcraft Law (1604) |
Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium Maleficarum
(1609)
Friuli (early 17th cent.) |
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) | 30 Years War (1618-1648) | King Louis XIII (1610-1643) Cardinal Richelieu |
Lancashire (1612) | Trial of Marie Cornu (1611) in the Spanish Netherlands |
Friedrich Spee, Cautio Criminalis (1631)
Peace of Westphalia (1648) |
English Civil War (1642-1648) Witch-Finder General Matthew Hopkins (1644-1646) |
Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652) in the Spanish Netherlands | ||
King Louis XIV (1643-[1661]-1715) |
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
1650 |
1650 |
1650 |
1700 |
1700 |
1700 |
"Enlightened Despotism" (18th cent.)
War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714) |
King Louis XVI (1715-1774) | Joseph Glanvil, Sadducismus Triumphatus (1700); Henry More, Dmon of Tedworth | Grace
Sherwood
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Maria Theresa Habsburg (1740-1780) Frederick II Hohenzollern (1740-1786) |
Voltaire (1694-1778) | |||
Last execution (1775) | Encyclopedia (1751-80) | |||
French Revolution (1789-1815) | Last execution in Switzerland (1782) |
1800 |
1800 |
1800 |
GENERAL |
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE |
FRANCE |
BRITAIN |
THE REST OF EUROPE |
Timeline |
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URL: http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/wtimlin.html
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