Jan, Feb, March, April, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec

JANUARY

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• 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• 1787 - Final Witchcraft Laws repealed in Austria.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.
• 2001 - HallsOfAvalon.com goes live.

FEBRUARY

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• 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 Bull 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

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• 1199 - Pope Innocent III issues a Bull 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 1233 - Law introduced in Germany to encourage conversion, rather than burning of Heretics and Witches.
• 1542 - Pope Paul III issues a Bull, 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

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• 1492 - Death of Pope Innocent III, who issued the famous Anti-Witchcraft Bull 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 1484 - Pope Innocent VIII reverses the "CANON EPISCOPI" by issuing a Bull "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.