1996

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1996**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1995/96 and 1996/97. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1990s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

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* January: Ten death eaters, including Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov and Augustus Rookwood, escape from Azkaban.
* March: Dolores Umbridge dismisses Sybil Trelawney from the post as Divination professor; Firenze is hired in her place.
* Mid-April: Marietta Edgecombe informs Umbridge about Dumbledore's Army. Dumbledore flees the school; Umbridge is made headmistress.
* Early May: Fred and George Weasley leave Hogwarts after deploying a Portable Swamp.
* 8-18 June: O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams.
* 18 June: Umbridge attempts to arrest Rubeus Hagrid, who escapes and goes into hiding. Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Umbridge is removed from Hogwarts and Cornelius Fudge resigns as Minister for Magic.
* July: Draco Malfoy becomes a death eater. Garrick Ollivander and Florean Fortescue are kidnapped. Dumbledore visits the Gaunt Shack in Little Hangleton, finding the Resurrection Stone horcrux. Rufus Scrimgeour becomes new Minister for Magic.
* 20 December: Slughorn's Christmas party.

## Para-canonical plot

(Non-canonical events that *complement* canon)

* 18 October: Death Eaters rampage through Knockturn Alley, destroying the shops of people not supporting Voldemort.
* 21 October: Jessie Tickes is made full partner of Jas. W. Tickes and Sons.
* 23 October: Jessie Tickes elected Chair of the Diagon Alley Chamber of Commerce
* 26 October: Jessie Tickes acquires the property 93 Diagon Alley (housing Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes) in order to avoid the former landlord foreclosing and evicting the tenants.
* 28 October: First day of the Fall meeting of the Chronologie Mechanique in Bern, Switzerland. Jessie Tickes sits her mastery, alongside Paul Deroulede, Niels Nielsen VIII, Hans Prosser and Vladimir Selnikov, and passes it with high honours. It is not clear how long the meeting is, but she leaves the following Sunday (3 November), returning to London on Monday morning.
* 1 November: Muggle Madness Night at The Sticky Lick (Friday night a week after the Diagon Alley Chamber of Commerce election)

## Contra-canonical plot

(Non-canonical events that *contradict* canon)

## Deaths

* 18 June: **Sirius Black**
* 6 August: Joseph Murray
* 1 November: Ms Price-Fortescue ("a few days before" Ms Fortescue-Price (see below) but the same weekend)
* 3 November: Ms Fortescue-Price (the night before Jessie Tickes' return from the Chronologie Mechanique meeting)

### Unknown date

* **Hannah Abbott's mother**: September or October
* **Broderick Bode**: January
* **Amelia Bones**: Between 28 June and 4 July
* **Florean Fortescue**: Summer
* **Igor Karkaroff**: June or July
* **Emmeline Vance**: Between 28 June and 4 July

## References

1. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 8
2. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 13
3. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 17
4. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 23
5. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 27
6. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 28
7. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 31
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 32
9. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 19
10. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 1
11. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 6
12. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 10
13. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 6
14. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 33