1700s

The **1700s** is the century 1700-1799; this page lists events known or likely to have occurred during these years.

## Canon plot

Main article: **18th century** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1743: Gideon Flatworthy leads the extremist anti-Muggle group, the Accionites. After being pursued by Goblin goldsmiths from whom they had stolen, the group hide in a remote cave in Pembrokeshire. Disillusioned with Flatworthy's leadership, the Accionites abandon him in the cave where, perhaps driven mad by hunger, on 18 September he Summons an entire farm, ending up crushed to death beneath cattle and haystacks.

## Births

* 1703: **Edgar Stroulger**
* 1715: **Flavius Belby**
* 1720: **Gondoline Oliphant**
* 1731: Ian Gardner Tickes I
* 1740: James Tickes I
* 1742: **Glover Hipworth**, **Beaumont Majoribanks**
* 1745: John Tickes
* 1750: **Gulliver Pokeby**
* 1750: **Xavier Rastrick**
* 1754: **Artemisia Lufkin**
* 1756: **Faris Spavin**
* 1770: **Grogan Stump**
* 1776: **Amarillo Lestoat**
* 1794: **Beatrix Bloxam**
* 1795: **Crispin Cronk**

### Year unknown

* **Vicky Bishopper**: Between September 1713 and August 1716 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1728 to 1732)
* **Mike Boon**: Between September 1701 and August 1704 (Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team from 1716 to 1720)
* **Jason Charmer**: Between September 1705 and August 1708 (Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team from 1720 to 1724)
* **Dan Darker**: Between September 1729 and August 1732 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1744 to 1748)
* **Robin Higgy**: Between September 1717 and August 1720 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1732 to 1736)
* **Kris Kolumbiko**: Between September 1737 and August 1740 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1752 to 1756)
* **Jess Lafington**: Between September 1733 and August 1736 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1748 to 1752)
* **Russell Lucky**: Between September 1725 and August 1728 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1740 to 1744)
* Daphne Gautier Lyon: likely between 1775 and 1795 (old enough to marry, and young enough to still have more than one child afterwards, in 1813)
* Gustave Lyon: before 1795 (old enough to marry in 1813)
* **David Makehay**: Between September 1741 and August 1744 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1756 to 1760)
* **Katie Rayknolls**: Between September 1710 and August 1712 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1724 to 1728)
* **Mark Sommertime**: Between September 1721 and August 1724 (Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1736 to 1740)
* Fiona Gardner Tickes, née Worthing: likely between 1700 and 1715 (had children in both 1731 and 1745)
* James Tickes II: after 1763 (when his father graduated from Hogwarts) but before 1783 (was of age, i.e. at least 17 years old, in late 1789)
* Jamesina Tickes I: early 1790s, or possibly late 1789 (after 16 December)
* Myron Tickes I: likely between 1700 and 1719, since he was old enough to fear being sent to fight in a war in 1735

## Deaths

* 1702: **William III**, King of England and husband of Queen Mary II (8 March)
* 1710: **Havelock Sweeting**
* 1729: **Elladora Ketteridge**
* 1743: **Honoria Nutcombe**
	+ 18 September: **Gideon Flatworthy**
* 1747: **Eldritch Diggory**
* 1757: **Lady Carmilla Sanguina**
* 1761: **Glanmore Peakes**
* 1762: **Vargot**
* 1763: James Tickes I
* 1769: **Lord Stoddard Withers**
* 1781: **Maximilian Crowdy**
* 1791: **Flavius Belby**
* 1798: **Edgar Stroulger**
* 1799: **Fortunade Lestrange**, **Gaidic Lestrange**, **Nozéa Lestrange**, **Gondoline Oliphant**

### Year unknown

* Fiona Gardner Tickes: after 1763, but likely before 1800 (since she must have been born between 1700 and 1715, see above)
* Myron Tickes I: after 1763, but likely before 1800 (since he must have been born between 1700 and 1719, see above)

## Qidditch

* 1700 to 1704: **The Gryffindor Quidditch team is captained by Oona Ballington.**
* 1704 to 1708: **The Gryffindor team is captained by Concepta Battista.**
* 1708 to 1712: **The Gryffindor team is captained by Betty Bickering.**
* 1711: **Quaffles are first coloured red to make them distinguishable during a muddy winter.**
* 1712 to 1716: **The Gryffindor team is captained by Hugh Biggs.**
* 1716 to 1720: **The Gryffindor team is captained by Mike Boon.**
* 1720 to 1724: **The Gryffindor team is captained by Jason Charmer.**
* 1724: **Sophia Prickett becomes captain of the Gryffindor team.**
* 1724 to 1728: **The Slytherin Quidditch team is captained by Katie Rayknolls.**
* 1728 to 1732: **The Slytherin team is captained by Vicky Bishopper.**
* 1732 to 1736: **The Slytherin team is captained by Robin Higgy.**
* 1736 to 1740: **The Slytherin team is captained by Mark Sommertime.**
* 1740 to 1744: **The Slytherin team is captained by Russell Lucky.**
* 1744 to 1748: **The Slytherin team is captained by Dan Darker.**
* 1748 to 1752: **The Slytherin team is captained by Jess Lafington.**
* 1750: **The Ministry of Magic passes the first official set of rules of Quidditch; however, the Department of Magical Games and Sports is not established until the 1810s.**
* 1752 to 1756: **The Slytherin team is captained by Kris Kolumbiko.**
* 1756 to 1760: **The Slytherin team is captained by David Makehay.**
* 1760: **Mark Overcliff becomes captain of the Slytherin team.**

### Year unknown

* **Quidditch is introduced to Australia.**
* **The game Quodpot is created by Abraham Peasegood.**

## Triwizard Tournament

Held every fifth year until 1792.

* 1762: John Tickes competes in the Triwizard Tournament as the Hogwarts Champion
* 1792: **An escaped Cockatrice injures three judges, leading to the abandonment of the competition until reestablished in 1994.**

## Wizarding Schools Potions Championship

* 1701: **The forty-third Championship is held.**
* 1708: **The forty-fourth Championship is held.**
* 1715: **The forty-fifth Championship is held.**
* 1722: **The forty-sixth Championship is held.**
* 1729: **The forty-seventh Championship is held.**
* 1736: **The forty-eighth Championship is held.**
* 1743: **The forty-ninth Championship is held.**
* 1750: **The fiftieth Championship is held.**
* 1757: **The fifty-first Championship is held.**
* 1764: **The fifty-second Championship is held.**
* 1771: **The fifty-third Championship is held.**
* 1778: **The fifty-fourth Championship is held.**
* 1785: **The fifty-fifth Championship is held.**
* 1792: **The fifty-sixth Championship is held.**
* 1799: **The fifty-seventh Championship is held.**

## Other

* 1700: **A portrait of Google Stump and one of Albert Gibbering Stump, both currently hung at Hogwarts Castle, are painted.**
* 1702: **McTawny Broomsticks established.**
* 1707: **The British Ministry of Magic is founded, replacing the earlier Wizard's Council. Ulick Gamp is elected the first Minister for Magic.**
* 1709: **The Warlock's Convention outlaws dragon breeding.**
* 1714: **The 1714 Edict is issued by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.**
* 1717: **The Ministry of Magic first declares the Killing, Cruciatus and Imperius Curses as Unforgivable.**
* 1718: **Damocles Rowle is elected Minister for Magic on a platform of being "tough on Muggles".**
* 1722: **Dilys Derwent starts her career as a Healer at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures sentences a Hippogriff to death; the execution method was, according to Hermione Granger, "*disgusting*".**
* 1726: **Damocles Rowle is forced to step down as Minister for Magic due to censure from the International Confederation of Wizards; he is replaced by Perseus Parkinson.**
* 1728: **A. Webb Servicing Ltd. is established.**
* 1733: **Eldritch Diggory is elected Minister for Magic**.
* 1734: ***A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery* is released.**
* 1735: Swiss muggle clockmaker Johannes Montreschmitt seeks to escape the War of the Polish Succession by emigrating to the Americas, but instead ends up in London under the name Myron Tickes.
* 1737: **The Miserable Female Gargoyle is placed on its plinth in the Middle Courtyard, at Hogwarts Castle.**
* 1741: **Dilys Derwent becomes Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.**
* 1743: **The *Daily Prophet* begins publication.**
* 1747: **Albert Boot is elected Minister for Magic to replace the recently deceased Eldritch Diggory.**
* 1749: **A breach in the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy involving Vampires is contained, and safety concerns are met with new laws.**
* 1750: **The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is changed, adding Clause 73 to the code: "Each nation is responsible for keeping the Magical Creatures within their nation secret from Muggles." Gladrags Wizardwear and 2nd Hand Brooms are founded.**
* 1752: **A goblin rebellion occurs in Great Britain. Due to mismanaging this rebellion, Minister for Magic Albert Boot resigns and is replaced by Basil Flack, who in turn resigns after only two months as the goblins ally themselves with the werewolves; Hesphaestus Gore is elected to succeed him.**
* 1753: **J. Pippin's Potions is established.**[*citation needed*]
* 1754: **A race between Aberdeen and Rome is held between rival broom fliers Torquil McTavish and Silvio Astolfi. The finish of the race ends in disaster, as a spontaneous fight between supporters of both racers leads to the destruction of the Coliseum. Orabella Nuttley manages to repair the damage before any Muggles can arrive on the scene, thus first publicly displaying the Mending Charm she had invented.**
* 1760: **President Thornton Harkaway relocates Magical Congress of the United States of America headquarters to Williamsburg, Virginia.**
* 1762: **The extremely dangerous Scottish game called Creaothceann is outlawed by the British Ministry of Magic. Nicolas Flamel is spotted at the opera in Paris.**
* 1768: **Dilys Derwent retires as Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Tomes and Scrolls bookshop is established.**
* 1770: **Maximilian Crowdy is elected Minister for Magic.**
* 1772: **Levina Monkstanley develops and uses the Wand-Lighting Charm for the first time.**
* 1776: **Elm Distilleries and** Swotts & Swotts Scotch Distilleries **are first established.**
* 1777: **President Elizabeth McGilliguddy presides over the infamous Country or Kind? debate.**
* 1781: **Porteus Knatchbull is elected Minister for Magic to replace the recently deceased Maximilian Crowdy.**
* 1782: **Flavius Belby discovers the Lethifold and survives its attack. Prime Minister Lord North calls in Minister for Magic Knatchbull for assistance in dealing with King George III's mental illness. Rumours spread that North believes in wizards, and he is voted out of office on a motion of no confidence.**
* 1784: **The Warlocks of Zanzibar start brewing White Rat Whisky in their cellars.**
* 1789: **Unctuous Osbert is elected Minister for Magic. Production of Professor Perry's Piscatorial Polish starts, in the town of Barfreston, England.** Jas. W. Tickes and Sons is founded. On 16 December, James Tickes II is granted a Muggle artefact tampering license; on 17 December, the granting of such licenses (but not the use of existing ones) is outlawed.
* 1790: **President Emily Rappaport enacts Rappaport's Law, creating total segregation between the magic and non-magic communities in the United States by banning wizards and witches from marrying or befriending No-Majs, restricting them to interactions "necessary to perform daily activities." The French Ministry of Magic is founded. L. Beardmore & Co. Apothecaries are established.**
* 1792: **A Cockatrice escapes during a Triwizard Tournament and injures three judges, leading to the abandonment of the competition until reestablished in 1994. Quintin Black brand is established.**
* 1793-94: **The Terror takes place in France. Among those targeted by the revolutionaries was the wizard Vincent Duc de Trefle-Picques, who managed to escape execution by casting a Concealment Charm on his own neck and pretending to have already been decapitated.**
* 1794: **The first recorded sighting of an Acromantula, in Borneo. Die Silberne Fledermaus is founded.**
* 1796: **Wand Repair is established.**
* 1798: **Artemisia Lufkin is elected Minister for Magic.**
* 1799: **A Ukrainian Ironbelly carries off a Muggle sailing boat with no one on board.**

### Year unknown

* **In the first decades of the century, several books and documents of "dubious scholarship" are published. Drawing partially from the writing of Salazar Slytherin, these works claimed that there were several signs that would identify a pure-blood child from infancy, such as early onset of magical ability (before three years old), fear or dislike of pigs and pigherds, and/or Muggles, and resistance to common childhood illnesses; in later years, broomstick prowess before seven years old as well as "outstanding physical attractiveness" were also claimed to be significant. These claims have since been disproven time and time again, but are still quoted as truth by many pure-blood families.**
* **A modern and complex plumbing system is installed at Hogwarts Castle, and bathroom facilities are created. Corvinus Gaunt, a student at the time, conceals the Chamber of Secrets behind some new plumbing fixtures and a sink after learning the secrecy of the entrance to the Chamber is in jeopardy: the room it was located in was going to be turned into a girls' lavatory.**
* **Between 1718 and 1726: Azkaban is turned into a prison by Minister for Magic Damocles Rowle.**
* 1780s or 1790s: Lyon et Fils is established ("about as old as" Jas. W. Tickes and Sons, which was founded in 1789)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 10, see also Tickes family#Timeline calculations
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 3
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 13
5. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: Pure-Blood at WizardingWorld.com
6. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: Chamber of Secrets at WizardingWorld.com
7. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: Azkaban at WizardingWorld.com
8. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: Ministers for Magic at WizardingWorld.com