1899

The following events occurred in **1899**:

## Events

### Individuals that Graduated from Hogwarts:

The following individuals graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in June of 1899.

* Albus Dumbledore, Head Boy
* Paschal Parkinson
* Elphias Doge
* Cornelius Moon
* Bartholomew Higgs
* Antoinette Greengrass
* Alector Carrow
* Harvey Ridgebit

### Individuals that Started at Hogwarts:

The following individuals began their education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1899.

* Gilchrist MacDougal (Ravenclaw)

### Marriages:

* **27 April**: Rudolph Warrington and Finola Macmillan in Buckinghamshire, England.
* **6 December**: Bertram Yaxley and Mathilda Greengrass in Upton Noble, Somerset, England.

### Other:

* **9 May**: The Witches' League is founded.
* **c.** **June-August**: Albus Dumbledore sits his N.E.W.T.s and graduates from Hogwarts in a blaze of glory: Head Boy, Winner of the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Conference in Cairo. Later in the summer, Dumbledore befriends Gellert Grindelwald during the latter's stay in Godric's Hollow, and soon they became lovers. However their relationship is short-lived; during a row, a three-way duel broke out between Albus, Grindelwald and Aberforth which ended in the accidental death of Ariana Dumbledore.
* **17 September**: Eloise Mintumble became trapped for five days in the year 1402, messing up time so severely that it was Tuesday for two and a half days and Thursday disappeared in four hours. Twenty five people became un-born thanks to the damage to the timeline. When she got back to the present, her body had aged five centuries, and she died in hospital.

## Births

* **23 March:** Henrietta Walkin to Benedict Walkin and Aster Walkin (née Glasson) in Penzance, Cornwall, England.
* **23 April**: Bertram Abbott to Phineas Abbott and Lavinia Abbott (née Malfoy) in Barnstaple, Devon, England.
* **1 May**: Clara Dawson (née Moore) to Edward Moore and Martha Moore (née Gamp) in Peterborough, England.
* **10 June**: Percival Aubrey into the Aubrey family of Cannock, Staffordshire, England.
* **14 July**: Claribel Goshawk to Gresham Goshawk Sr. and Henrietta Goshawk (née Gamp) in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
* **25 August**: Archie Dawson into the Dawson family in Salcombe, Devon, England.
* **19 October**: Violet Brown (née Neville) into the Neville family in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.
* **21 October**: Jemima Marchbanks to Aberforth Marchbanks and Gwendoline Marchbanks (née Gamp) in Witheridge, Devon, England.
* **4 November**: Octavia Bonham (née Carrow) to Alastor Carrow and Lilith Carrow (née Macmillan) in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
* **24 November**: Anselm Walkin, first child of Bartemius Walkin and Martha Walkin (née Jenkins) is born in Penzance, Cornwall, England.

## Deaths

* **4 June**: Quintus Parkinson died on this day aged 39 in York, Yorkshire, England.
* **29 August**: Eduardus Limette Black died on this day at the age of 78 on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
* **4 November**: Lilith Carrow (née Macmillan) died in childbirth on this day, aged 20.