<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Salem witch trials">Salem witch trials</a>: In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts" id="mwXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Salem, Massachusetts">Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay</a>, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.