Talk:Timeline of the Salem witch trials

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Moved[edit]

I moved the timeline information from the main article so that we can work on it. I recommend looking at the List of timelines to see how others are formatted to see how we want to work with this one. Ogram 13:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions[edit]

The ref cited lists the publish date as 1689, everything else I can find also lists the pub date as 1689, what keeps me from changing it is the timeline (also from the same site as the ref cited, lists it as 1688, [1] anyone know why the discrepancy and which is correct, I'm apt to believe it is 1689 as everything but that timeline lists it as that. -Dureo (talk) 07:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The events took place in 1688, and Mather published his account in 1689. -Ogram (talk) 23:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dating at this period is confusing anyway as there were still years beginning on January 1 and the official year on March 25 during the 17th century. How this affected New England I just do not know but it ia a prblem for British publications. Publishers can also print books with a date and then delay distribution, or issue parts of a volume over a period of months to be one volume dated later than the first of the parts.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 23:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dates between January 1 and March 24 were often (not always) indicated in this format: 1691/2. Ogram (talk) 15:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline details[edit]

The timeline continues to be inconsistent in respect to the types of items listed. I have spent time working on improving the Formal Prosecutions section today, based on information available in Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, but much more work needs to be done, especially with the section on accusations and examinations because those continued into the time that the prosecutions took place, and it currently looks like the accusations stopped when the prosecutions began. Do these need to be two separate sections? Again, it would be helpful if others could look at the List of timelines for ideas and best practices and help out. Ogram (talk) 15:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]