BCE — Hebrew Scriptures addressed witchcraft.
200–500 CE — Talmud described punishments for witchcraft.
910 — Canon Episcopi recorded.
1140 — Gratian compiled canon law.
1154 — John of Salisbury expressed skepticism.
1230s — Inquisition against heresy established.
1258 — Pope Alexander IV linked sorcery with heresy.
Late 13th century — Aquinas wrote on sorcery.
1306–15 — Knights Templar eliminated; accused of witchcraft.
1316–1334 — Papal bulls linked sorcery with pacts.
1340s — Black Death increased fear of witchcraft.
1450 — Papal decree linked witchcraft with heresy.
1484 — Pope Innocent VIII authorized witchcraft investigations.
1486 — Malleus Maleficarum published.
1500–1560 — Rise in witchcraft trials.
1542 — English Witchcraft Act passed.
1552 — Russia made witch trials civil matters.
1560s–70s — Witch hunts in southern Germany.
1563 — Johann Weyer published skepticism of witchcraft.
1580–1650 — Peak witchcraft trial era.
1584 — Reginald Scot published “Discoverie of Witchcraft.”
1604 — Act of James I expanded witchcraft laws.
1612 — Pendle witch trials.
1618 — Handbook for English judges published.
1634 — Loudun possessions and trials.
1640s — Frequent English witch trials.
1660 — Witch trials in northern Germany.
1682 — France banned witchcraft trials.
1692 — Salem witch trials.
1717 — Last English witch trial.
1736 — English Witchcraft Act repealed.
1755 — Austria ended witch trials.
1768 — Hungary ended witch trials.
1829 — Forged witchcraft history published.
1833 — U.S. witchcraft prosecution.
1862 — Michelet reframed witchcraft positively.
1893 — Gage published feminist witchcraft history.
1921 — Murray published “Witch Cult in Western Europe.”
1954 — Gardner published “Witchcraft Today.”
1970s — Feminist reinterpretations.
2011 — Witchcraft execution in Saudi Arabia.