20th Century

The following events occurred during the 19th Century.

 1902
 1903
 1904
 1907
* Tolipan Blemish Blitzer was first produced.

### Deaths

 1903
 1904
 1906

## 1910 - 1919

### Events

 1912
 1913
 1914
 1918
* The seventy-fourth Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held.
* Obscurus Books commissions Newton Scamander to write *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.*

### Deaths

 1912
 1916
 1918

## 1920 - 1929

### Events

 1921
* Henry Potter's term as a Wizengamot member ends.
 1922
 1923
 1924
* The British Ministry of Magic passes Decree Number 157 of 1924, which established the Educational Decrees.
 1925
* The seventy-fifth Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held
* Fleury's Fancy Fauna in New York is forcibly shut down by the Magical Congress of the United States of America for illegally breeding magical beasts within city limits.
* Summer: Bob Ogden arrests Marvolo Gaunt and his son Morfin for the latter's hexing of Tom Riddle Snr. Marvolo is given a six month sentence in Azkaban for assaulting several Ministry employees, while Morfin is given three years for the aforementioned hexing of Riddle
* 30 November: Phineas Black is disowned from the House of Black
 1926
* Unknown date: Albus Dumbledore becomes a regular columnist for *Transfiguration Today*.
* Unknown date: Apparition is legalised in Denmark for people under seventeen.
* Circa March: Merope Gaunt becomes pregnant with her and Tom Riddle Snr's son. Merope stops dosing him with Love Potion, and he leaves her sometime thereafter, returning to his family in Little Hangleton.
* September: Newt Scamander encounters a young witch in Sudan who has become an Obscurial as a result of imprisonment by Muggles. She dies despite Newt's attempt to save her from the Obscurus.
* 15 November: Fred Baille & Co. appear at the Corbour Theatre in New York.
* 29 November: The Circus Arcanus, a travelling wizarding freak show, stages the first show of its visit to New York.
* 3 December: The Circus Arcanus holds two shows in a day.
* 5 December: Gellert Grindelwald attacks a group of Aurors near a chateau in Europe. Jacob Kowalski submits a loan application to Steen National Bank in the hope of getting money to open a bakery.
* 6 December-7 December: Magizoologist Newt Scamander visits New York where many magical creatures escape from his suitcase.
* 8 December: Newton Scamander helps capture and uncover Gellert Grindelwald and uses Frank the Thunderbird to create a rain laced with Swooping Evil venom to obliviate the citizens of New York, including Jacob Kowalski.
* 11 December: A series of twelve performances staged by G. Forbes Productions begin in New York. Magician Jonny Anomaly also appears at the Packer Theatre in the same city.
* 13 December: The Circus Arcanus stages a "spectacular" final show in New York.
* 15 December: Newton Scamander leaves a letter and several Occamy eggshells for Jacob Kowalski. Lamb & Neal appear at the Corbour Theatre in New York.
* 16 December: Newton Scamander departs from New York, promising Porpentina Goldstein that he will deliver a copy of his book to her.
* c. 25 December: Just before Christmas, Merope Gaunt, days away of having her baby and severely destitute, sells Caractacus Burke the priceless locket of Salazar Slytherin, an old family heirloom. Burke gives her ten Galleons, which Merope happily takes.
 1927
* March: Kowalski Quality Baked Goods, a bakery owned by Jacob Kowalski, has opened on Rivington Street in New York and is doing very well.
* Between 1 January and 19 March: *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them*, written by Newt Scamander, was first published.
* 19 March: A book launch for Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them is held at Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley.
* 30 May: Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who had been captured by Newt Scamander and the MACUSA in December of the previous year, makes a dramatic escape.
* September:
	+ Credence Barebone and Nagini escape from Circus Arcanus.
	+ Jacob Kowalski and Newt Scamander go to Paris.
	+ Assisted by his acolytes, Gellert Grindelwald secures a temporary base of operations and proceeds to hire Gunnar Grimmson to destroy Irma Dugard.
	+ When Barebone and Nagini find Dugard, Grimmson arrives and assassinates her.
	+ Newt meets up with Tina Goldstein, and after meeting Nicolas Flamel, they infiltrate the French Ministry of Magic to gain information on Credence Barebone and his connection to the Lestrange family.
	+ Queenie Goldstein is exploited by Vinda Rosier and joins Gellert Grindelwald.
	+ Gellert Grindelwald rallies his followers in the Lestrange Mausoleum. When Aurors arrive and kill a listener, Grindelwald conjures cursed fire to easily subdue his attackers and distinguish friend from foe. Krall dies, while Credence Barebone, Queenie Goldstein, six of the Aurors, and Vinda Rosier pass through unharmed. Leta Lestrange sacrifices herself to allow everyone else to escape Grindelwald's wrath, prompting Grindelwald and Rosier to leave. Subsequently, the heroes put out a fire unleashed by the warlord upon Paris.
 1928
 1929
* The Comet Trading Company is created by Randolph Keitch and Basil Horton. They release the Comet 140 as their first product.

### Deaths

 1922
 1923
 1925
 1927
 1928

## 1930 - 1939

### Events

 1931
 1932
* An election for the office of Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards is held with three candidates, Vicência Santos, Liu Tao, and Gellert Grindelwald.
	+ Grindelwald tries to cheat the walk of the Qilin. He is outed as a liar by Newt Scamander and Credence Barebone. Dumbledore duels Grindelwald to a stalemate. Grindelwald leaves. Vinência Santos wins the election.
* The Ilfracombe Incident occurs. Dirk becomes known as "Dodgy" Dirk due to his remembering the incident, having avoided the Tokes' Memory Charms.
* The seventy-sixth Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held.
 1933
 1934
 1935
 1936
 1937
 1938
 1939
* 1 September: The Muggle world becomes engaged in the Second World War.
* The seventy-seventh Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held.

### Births

 1935
 1936
 1937

### Deaths

 1934
 1939

## 1940 - 1949

### Events

 1943
* 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.
 1944
 1945
* 2 November: Albus Dumbledore defeats Gellert Grindelwald, who is subsequently incarcerated in Nurmengard.
	+ The Global wizarding war ends.
 1946
 1947
* *A History of Magic* by Bathilda Bagshot is first published.
 1948
 1949
* The Snallygaster Protection League is formed.
* Andrew Snowy Owl captained the Slytherin Quidditch Team.

### Deaths

 1942
 1943
 August: Mary Riddle

## 1950 - 1959

### Events

* The Swiftstick racing broom is released by Ellerby and Spudmore.
* Andrew Snowy Owl captained the Slytherin Quidditch team.
 1953
 1954
 1955
 1956
* Hamish MacFarlan becomes captain of Montrose Magpies.
* Rufus Winickus captained the Slytherin Quidditch team.
 1959
* Lyall Lupin and Hope Howell celebrate their wedding.

### Deaths

 1957
 1959

## 1960 - 1969

### Events

 1962
 1963
 1965
* The Ban on Experimental Breeding is enacted.
* The process of metrication (switching to metric measurements) begins in Muggle Great Britain. The wizarding community simply ignored the change.
 1966
 1967
* The Nimbus Racing Broom Company is formed.
 1968
 1969

### Deaths15

 1963
 1964
 1968

## 1970 - 1979

### Events

 1971
 1972
* September: Paula Cunningham signs away her rights to both the Thornton and Vanet fortunes and is subsequently disowned from the Cunningham, Thornton and Vanet families.
* *Muggles Who Notice* by Blenheim Stalk is published.
* Remus Lupin's friends James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew discover that he is a werewolf, and resolve to learn to become animagi.
 1973
* The Ministry of Magic defeats an appeal against house-elf slavery.
 1974
 1975
* Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew create the Marauder's Map
* Mundungus Fletcher is banned from the Hog's Head.
* *Hairy Snout, Human Heart*, by an anonymous author, is published by Whizz Hard Books.
 1976
* Summer: Sirius Black runs away to live with the Potter family, and is disowned from the House of Black.
 1977
* Sirius Black and James Potter are chased by two policemen, Fisher and Anderson, as well as three Death Eaters on broomsticks, while riding on Sirius's motorbike. They escape, however, by using magic to lift the police car, causing the three Death Eaters to crash into it.
 1978
 1979
* 1 April: Caractacus Phelps explodes eight hundred Stink Pellets by dropping them en masse from the roof of the Daily Prophet building in Diagon Alley. The resultant gas cloud causes untold discomfort throughout London and approximately five hundred cases of 'Stinkitus' are reported. The non-magical authorities explain the stinking cloud as an unpleasant emission from a nearby factory.
* Newt Scamander is awarded the Order of Merlin, Second Class.

## 1980 - 1981

### Events

* Death Eater Igor Karkaroff is captured by Auror Alastor Moody and sent to Azkaban.
* Millicent Bagnold succeeds Harold Minchum becoming Minister for Magic until her retirement in 1990.

### Births

 Ernie Macmillan