| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1634 | | John Endecott defaces King's colors | Radical Puritan John Endecott of Salem believed that the image of the cross was idolatrous. A website for the Popham Colony has a representation of such a flag. | Endicott, Endecott, flag, Hawthorne, Puritans |
| 1661 | | English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston. | In response English Quakers sought a mandamus from King Charles II. A Salem Quaker, Samuel Shattock, who was then in England, delivered it to Governor Endecott. | Quaker, Whittier |
| 1662 | | Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem. | This was one of several attempts at civil disobedience by Quakers who chose flamboyant efforts to witness against persecution. Like the others, Wilson as whipped at the cart tail. | Quakers |
| 1692 | | Salem Witch Trials | | Salem, witch |
| 1697 | | Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials | | witch |
| 1711 | | Massachusetts begins compensating victims of Salem witch trials. | | witch |
| 1799 | | East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts | | |
| 1829 | | Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America" | Like other writers of the early republic, Goodrich saw the Salem witch trials as a consequence of fanaticism and delusion. | |
| 1831 | | Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft" | An account by a Unitarian minister who used the Salem story to warn against the dangers of religious and political zeal. | witch |
| 1848 | | Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York | | witch, painting |
| 1851 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables" | | witch Salem |
| 1889 | | Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant | The historical vignettes included Anne Hutchinson's banishment, the Salem witch trials, and the courtship of Priscilla Alden, among other events. | witch, antinomian, Hutchinson, Alden, suffrage |
| 1904 | | Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables. | James wrote, "Hawthorne's ladder at Salem, in fine, has now quite gone, and we but tread the air if we attempt to set our critical feet on its steps and its rounds. | |
| 1908 | | House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded | | witch, Salem, museum, immigration |
| 1942 | | Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site | . . . the Georgian influenced building is situated on an angle within the property allowing worshippers standing in prayer before the Holy Ark to face east toward Jerusalem. | |
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| 1953 | | Arthur Miller, "The Crucible" | See Web links for Arthur Miller, "Why I wrote 'The Crucible': An artist's answer to politics." and for a Massachusetts curriculum project that connects Miller's play to Salem.
Additional Information | witch, Salem |
| 1996 | | The Crucible filmed | | witch, Salem |
