1900s (century)

The **1900s** is the century 1900-1999. This page lists events known or likely to have occurred during these years, but where the exact year or decade cannot be stated with certainty.

## Births

* Unless stated otherwise, parents of students contemporary with Harry were likely born in the 1940s or 1950s (early 1960s also being possible for younger students, and late 1930s for older ones): Lavender Brown's father, **Apolline Delacour** and **her husband**, Gregory Goyle's mother, **Hermione's father** and **mother**, Aceline Hesop's father and mother, **Viktor Krum's mother**, **Pandora Lovegood**, Graham Montague's father, Apollo and Mary Nooke, Hestia Talon's father, Cassius Warrington's father

* Giovanna: between September 1978 and August 1985
* Mr. and Mrs. Boucher: likely between the 1940s and the 1960s (have a ten-year-old child in 1996)
* Faith Burbage: before 1960 ("lightly aged" in 1998)
* **Ritchie Coote**: between September 1978 and August 1984 (played Quidditch in 1996/97)
* Algernon Croaker: likely in the 1930s or 1940s, or possibly earlier (he is said to be the brother of Augusta Longbottom, who can hardly have been born later than 1940, but it is not known who is older or by how much) (*Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*)
* Abigail Flourish: before Sep 1960, likely 1930s or 1940s, or even earlier (adult in 1978; looks "matronly" in 1996)
* Florean Fortescue's son: likely 1920s or 1930s (*The Family Clock*)
* Patricia Hayworth: likely in the 1900s or 1910s, but could also be the 1890s (her grandson is an adult in 1996)
* Gil Holzfaller: before Sep 1978 (working adult in 1996)
* Claire Jameson: Late 1960s or early 1970s (mid-twenties in 1996)
* Harrowby Jones: likely in or before 1930 (sells his shop to retire in 1996)
* **Alice Longbottom**: 1958/59 or earlier (worked as auror in July 1980, so must have graduated Hogwarts in 1977 at the latest)
* **Augusta Longbottom**: before September 1940 (her son Frank was born in 1958/59 or earlier, so she had presumably graduated Hogwarts in 1958 at the latest.)
* **Frank Longbottom**: 1958/59 or earlier (worked as auror in July 1980, so must have graduated Hogwarts in 1977 at the latest)
* Beauregard Lyon: likely in the 1920s or 1930s (described as an "older man" in 1996)
* Gillian Lyon: likely before 1970 (she is vice-president of the family company in 1996, and her uncle is described as "an older man")
* Gudule Lyon: likely in the 1930s or 1940s (mother of Gillian Lyon, above)
* Samuel McArran: likely in the 1910s or the first half of the 1920s (had a daughter in 1944, but was still running his shop in 1996)
* Niels Nielsen VII: likely in the 1940s or 1950s (has a son born in the mid-1970s)
* **Poppy Pomfrey**: before 1954 (of working age in 1971)
* **Kingsley Shacklebolt**: likely in the 1950s or 1960s (knew James Potter); in any case before September 1973 (senior to Tonks)
* **Justin Steele**: between September 1978 and August 1982 (Hogwarts student during both the 1993/94 and the 1996/97 school year)
* Jeremy Sutherland: between September 1978 and August 1981 (in Ginny's or Hermione's year, or the one above Hermione)
* **Heather Thatcham**: between September 1975 and August 1982 (attended Hogwarts during the 1993/94 school year)

## Deaths

* Maxence Delacour: between 1918/19 and 1977/78 (survived WW1 but died before Fleur Delacour was born)

## References

1. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 14
2. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 19
3. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 5
4. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 38 and following
5. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 24
6. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 17
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *The Code*, Chapter 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 27
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 28
10. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 25
11. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 6