1688 - Birthday of Emangel Swedenborg, Scientist. 1696 - Official Confession of Errors by Jurors of Salem Witch Trials issued. 1787 - Final Witchcraft Laws repealed in Austria. 1854 - Birth of MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders of Golden Dawn. 1945 - Death of Psychic Edgar Cayce. 1946 - Dion Fortune, member of Golden Dawn Dies. 1971 - Patricia Crowther's radio show, A Spell of Witchcraft airs in Britain. 1988 - Jamie Dodge wins lawsuit against the Salvation Army, which fired her for being a Wiccan. 1994 - Aquarian Tabernacle church registered in Australia.
FEBRUARY
1274 - Deathe of Thomas Aguines, Catholic Scholar who wrote that "Heresy" was a product of ignorance and therefore criminal. 1521 - Pope Leo X issues a Bill to ensure that the Secular Courts would execute those convicted of Witchcraft, by the Inquisition. 1728 - Death of Cotton Mathers, minister at the Salem Witch Trials. 1882 - Society of Psychical Research, devoted to paranormal studies, founded in London. 1965 - Gerald Gardner, founder of the Gardnerian Tradition dies of Heart Failure. 1975 - Zsusanna Budapest arrested and later convicted for Fortune Telling.
MARCH
1199 - Pope Innocent III issues a Bill to establish the Inquisition. 1311 - Pope Clement persuaded by Phillip IV to suppress the Templar Order. 1563 - Elizabethan Statute against Witchcraft enacted. 1661 - Arrest of Florence Newton, one of the few people burned as a Witch in Ireland. 1692 - Preliminary Hearings in the Salem Witch Trials. 1888 - (1st) Golden Dawn is Formed. 1888 - (21st) Inauguration of Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn and initiation of Moina Mathers. 1890 - William Butler Yeats uis initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn. 1968 - Church of All Worlds(CAW) incorporates in Missouri, becoming the first Wiccan Church to do so in the United States. 1975 - Covenant of the Goddess(COG) is formed.
APRIL
1579 - Conviction of Witches at the second of four famous trials at Chelmsford, England. 1634 - Death of Elias Ashmole, healer and Philosopher. 1662 - First confession of Witchcraft by Isobel Gowdie, whose case is unusual, because she confessed without torture in Scotland. 1670 - Burning of Major Weir, alledged Scottish Sorcerer. 1880 - Birthday of Montague Summers, Witchcraft Scholar. 1896 - William Alexander Aynton initiated into the Golden Dawn. 1900 - Aleister Crowley breaks into the Golden Dawn Temple, providing the catalyst for the demise of the original Golden Dawn. 1972 - Church of All Worlds(CAW) is Founded. 1974 - Adoption of the Principles of Wiccan Belief at the "Witch Meet" in St.Paul Minnesota. 1989 - USA Today reports that Patricia Hutchins is the first Military Wiccan, granted religious leave for The Sabbatts.
MAY
1431 - (30th) JOAN OF ARC, is Burned at the Stake for Heresy / Witchcraft. 1608 - The Compendium Maleficarum is written and published. 1659 - Massachusets Bay Colony Puritans ban Christmas celebrations, because they are too Pagan. 1660 - Widow Robinson of Kidderminster, England is arrested for using magic to try to prevent the return of Charles II from exile. 1662 - Final confessions of Witchcraft by Isobel Gowdie without torture. 1776 - Order of Illumination formed. 1776 - Death of Arnold Crowther. 1920 - (9th) ST.JOAN OF ARC is Canonized. 1938 - Long Island Church of Aphrodite is founded by Rev. Gleb Botkin. 1988 - Adoption of the Earth Religion Anti-Abuse Act.
JUNE
1233 - Law introduced in Germany to encourage conversion, rather than burning of Heretics and Witches. 1542 - Pope Paul III issues a Bill, LICET AB INITIO, making the Inquisition in Rome the central authority on Heretics. 1563 - Witchcraft Act takes affect in England. 1604 - James I's, Witchcraft Act repeals Elizabeth I's 1563 mandate and replaces it with stricter laws. 1648 - Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed as a Witch in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1692 - Hanging of Bridget Bishop, the first to die in the Salem Witch Trials. 1743 - Birthday of Allesandro di Cagliostro, Magician. 1951 - Final Witchcraft laws in England are repealed. 1970 - Church of All Worlds, chartered with the IRS. 1988 - Marriage of Margot Adler is first Handfasting to be carried in the New York Times society page.
JULY
1492 - Death of Pope Innocent III, who issued the famous Anti-Witchcraft Bill SUMMIS DESIDERANTES AFFECTIBUS. 1540 - Lord Hunterford executed in England for treason, for consulting Mother Roche a Witch, and speculating on the King's death. 1549 - Trial of Joan Prentice, who was accused of sending an IMP in the form of a Ferret to bite the children. 1566 - Confession of Witches at the first of four major Witch Trials in Chelmford, England. 1566 - Death of Nostradamus. 1589 - Conviction of Witches at the third of four famous Witch Trials at Chelmford, England. 1612 - Jennet Preston becomes the first of the "MALKIN TOWER" Witches to be hanged. 1692 - Rebecca Nurse hanged in Salem,Massachusetts. 1981 - Scott Cunningham initiated into the Ancient Pictish Gaelic Way. 1988 - First recorded appearance of CROP CIRCLES in Silbury Hill, England. 1992 - First airing of "The Witching Hour" a pagan radio show on WONX in Evanston, Illinois.
AUGUST
1313 - Aradia de Toscano said to be born in Volterra, Italy. 1612 - Execution of the Lancashire, England Witches. 1623 - Order of the Rosy Cross established in Paris. 1634 - Father Urbain Grandier, found guilty of Bewitching Nuns in Loudoun, England. 1692 - John Willard and Reverand George Burroughs put to death in the Salem Witch Trials. 1824 - Birthday of Charles Godfrey Leland, Author of Aradia, Gospel of Witches. 1989 - Church of Wicca, founded in Australia by Lady Tamara Von Forslun.
SEPTEMBER
1179 - Death of Hildegard Von Bingen, medieval Saint and Metaphysician. 1486 - Birthday of Henry Cornelius Agrippa, scholar and Magician. 1603 - Else Pfraum, a baker from Koppern, Germany sentenced to death for Witchcraft. 1692 - Death of Giles Corey in Salem, Massachusetts. 1964 - BEWITCHED debuts on ABC-TV. 1985 -Senate passes amendment denying Tax-Exempt status to Wiccan Groups.
OCTOBER
1306 - Jacques De Molay and other French Templars arrested by King Phillip. 1306 - De Morlay and 31 other Templars confess to Heresy in front of the Clergy, only later to recant their confessions. 1888 -Death of Eliphas Levi, Ceremonial Magician. 1896 - MacGregor Mathers issues manifesto naming himself Supreme Leader of The Golden Dawn. 1974 - Circle Sanctuary Founded. 1982 - Sibyl Leek dies of Cancer.
NOVEMBER
1324 - Petronella De Meath, servant of Lady Alice Kyteler; is executed in the first recorded Witch Burning in Ireland. 1576 - Bessie Dunlop condemned for fraternizing with the Elfin Court, Scotland. 1595 - Edward Kelly's death is noted in the Diary of Dr. John Dee. 1605 - Guy Fawkes plots to blow up the House of Lords, celebration of Fawes death (GUY FAWKES DAY) merges with Halloween tradition in England. 1610 - Sentencing of the Witches of Zuggaramduri. 1898 - Aleister Crowley initiated into the Golden Dawn as Frater Perdurabo. 1907 - Birthday of Israel Regardie, Occultist and member of the (OTO). 1924 - Birthday of Theodore Parker Mills, Pagan Teacher and Elder. 1979 - Aquarian Tabernacle Church established in the United States. 1992 - Church of All worlds incorporated in Australia. 1993 - Aquarian Tabernacle Church established in Canada. 1995 - Henge of Keltria, Celtic Neopagan Druid organization, incorporates as a non-profit.
DECEMBER
1484 - Pope Innocent VIII reverses the "CANON EPISCOPI" by issuing a Bill "SUMMIS DESIDERANTES AFFECTIBUS". 1484 - The Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches Hammer) is written and introduced to the Catholic Church. 1503 - Birthday of Nostradamus. 1890 - Birthday of Dion Fortune, member of the golden Dawn. 1890 - Death of Jacob Sprenger, co-author of "THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM". 1947 - Death of Alister Crowley
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