1943

The following events occurred in 1943: 
==Events==
150px|thumb|right|Tom Riddle frames Rubeus Hagrid
*June: Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. Several students are injured, and Myrtle Warren is killed by the Basilisk.
*13 June: Rubeus Hagrid is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is expelled. With the murder of Moaning Myrtle, Tom Riddle transforms his diary into his first Horcrux.
*August: Tom Riddle murders his father, Tom Riddle Snr, and his grandparents, Thomas and Mary Riddle, for what he perceived as the abandonment of him and his late mother, Merope Gaunt. His uncle, Morfin Gaunt is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is sent to Azkaban. With the murder of the Riddles, Tom Riddle also transforms Marvolo Gaunt's Ring into his second Horcrux.
===Deaths===
*June: Myrtle Warren
===Quidditch===
*Winky Crockett captained the Slytherin Quidditch team.
==See also==
*Dating conventions
==External links==
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==Notes and references==
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