Earliest known usage of flying broomsticks.
The annual Swedish broom race from Kopparberg to Arjeplog begins.
The earliest form of Quidditch begins to be played in Queerditch Marsh.
Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is founded. The school houses are named after the founders: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Slytherin begins to think that only students from all-magic families should be admitted. Slytherin and Gryffindor have a serious argument, and Slytherin leaves the school. Before his departure Slytherin creates a basilisk that he seals inside the Chamber of Secrets.
The Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team is founded. (Sidenote: An all-ladies Quidditch team. MISANDRY.)
Chief of the Wizards' Council Barberus Bragge brings a caged Golden Snidget to a Quidditch match. He promises one-hundred fifty Galleons to the player who catches it during the course of the game. The bird is saved by Modesty Rabnot, but the practice of using Snidgets in Quidditch becomes popular and widepsread.
An International Warlock Convention is held.
The Triwizard Tournament is first held.
Wizard's Council Chief Burdock Muldoon grants the status of "being" to all creatures who can walk on two legs. A subsequent summit of magical "beings" is an utter disaster.
Madame Elfrida Clagg amends the definition of "being" as any creature who could speak the human tongue. The subsequent meeting is promptly disrupted by trolls who were taught a scant few words by the goblins.
Perenelle (Flamel by marriage) is born.
Nicholas Flamel is born.
The Wizards' Council outlaws Quidditch-playing within fifty miles of any town.
The Wizards' Council outlaws Quidditch-playing within one-hundred miles of any town.
Zacharias Mumps sets down the first full description of the game of Quidditch.
The Wizards' Council decrees that Quidditch should not be played "anywhere near any place where there is the slightest chance a Muggle might be watching or we'll see how well you can play whilst chained to a dungeon wall."
The very first Quidditch World Cup. All seven hundred ways of committing a Quidditch foul take place during the final.
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is killed, but not completely beheaded. His ghost continues to haunt Gryffindor Tower.
In Quidditch a ban is imposed on using wands against the opposing team.
The Hogsmeade inn is the headquarters for a goblin rebellion.
The Werewolf Code of Conduct is established.
The Quidditch European Cup is established.
The International Confederation of Wizards devises a list of twenty-seven species to be magically hidden from Muggles so that their existence becomes the stuff of legend and myth.
The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy makes every Ministry of Magic directly responsible for the consequences of all magical sports played within their borders.
Dragon breeding is outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention.
Clause 73 is added to the International Code of Wizarding Secrecy. It mandates that each wizarding governing body will be responsible for the concealment and control of all magical creatures within its jurisdiction.
The Department of Magical Games and Sports is formed.
The game Creaothceann is banned due to its high fatality rate.
A Triwizard Tournament is held. A cockatrice intended to be caught by the champions injures all three of the participating school headmasters.
First recorded sighting of an Acromantula.
A Ukranian Ironbelly dragon carries off an empty sailing boat from the Black Sea.
The giants bring their race to the brink of extinction by warring amongst themselves.
A Ridgeback dragon allegedly carries off a whale calf off the coast of Norway.
The new Minster of Magic Grogan Stump decrees that a "being" is "any creature with sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws."
Elliot Smethwick invents the Cushioning Charm.
The Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery is established.
Gripping Charms are discovered.
Albus Dumbledore born.
The Department of Magical Games and Sports replaces Quidditch baskets with goal hoops.
A Golden Snitch evades capture for six months in a Quidditch match on Bodmin Moor. The teams eventually give up in disgust.
The Stooging Penalty is introduced to Quidditch by the Department of Magical Games and Sports. From there on only the Chaser carrying the Quaffle is allowed into the scoring area, a rule intended to prevent injuries to the Keeper.
A first-year plays on a Quidditch house team at Hogwarts, the youngest for a century afterwards owing to age restrictions.
Newton "Newt" Artemis Fido Scamander is born.
Minerva McGonagall is born
Tom Malvolo Riddle is born. His father had already left and his mother dies in childbirth, leaving the child to be raised in an orphanage.
Rubeus Hagrid is born.
A Welsh Green Dragon swoops down on a beach in Ilfracombe. Fatalities are prevented through the actions of a wizarding family there on holiday. The family members are later awarded Orders of Merlin, First Class.
The first ever transatlantic broom crossing is completed by Jocunda Sykes.
Tom Riddle begins first year at Hogwarts.
The Chamber of Secrets is opened by Tom Riddle. Myrtle is killed by the basilisk in the first floor girl's bathroom, leading Headmaster Dippet to consider closing the school. Tom fingers Rubeus Hagrid as the cause of all the attacks, so Hagrid is expelled. Tom receives a Special Award for Services to the School, and the entire matter is hushed up.
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