Harry Potter and the Armor of God
Appendix Unicorn: Important Events in this Alternate Universe
2348 BC The Flood. Merfolk first appear as a few dozen humans make a pact with demons to be able to survive The Flood. Continents drift apart.
2200 BC Nimrod Founds Babylon
2197 BC Tower of Babel. By now the continents are separated to such an extent that travel between them is scarcely possible for centuries (at least without witchcraft).
2195 BC Nimrod Founds Nineveh
2100-1868 BC Rephaites, ancestors of the modern day giants known to the wizarding world, first make deals with demons.
2000-1850 BC Hags and Vampires originating from Sodom and Gomorrah first develop genes not found in baseline humanity through interaction with demons.
2000-1200 BC Earliest estimation of Goblin divergence from baseline humanity. Historians trace the goblins as originating from demon-worshiping Hittites.
1743-1075 BC Absolute earliest time ancestors of House-Elves develop genes not found in baseline humanity.
1408 BC Earliest estimation of Veela divergence from baseline humanity. Attributed to the sorcerer Balaam's Prophecy regarding Moabite women.
1350-650 BC Centaurs first appear as a number of horsemen in the Mediterranean make pacts with demons to "become one with their horses". Needless to say, they got more than they bargained for.
79 Zaccaria Innocenti causes Mount Vesuvius to erupt by casting Tanantellegra on the active volcano, killing 1500.
236 Diagon Dispensary established
313 The Edict of Milan makes Christianity legal in the Roman Empire. "Magic" becomes a genetically inheritable trait that can be used in God-pleasing ways, while before it was always sinful.
431 Council of Ephesus. Recognition that Christians can perform feats thought only possible with magic without sinning. The Four Categories of Spiritual Power are formalized. To distinguish Christians with Internal Spiritual Power from witches and wizards, the term "Magi of Ephesus" is coined, reflecting both its origins as a ruling from the Council of Ephesus and also the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus who burned their scrolls of magic totaling a sum worth 50,000 day's wages (see Acts 19).
570 Muhammad is born
632 Muhammad dies
650 Quran compiled
712 Shinto religion established
962 Broomsticks free of demonic influence are first used for transport
993 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizardry founded
998 Christianization of Russia begins. Ragnuk the First, King of the Goblins finishes the sword commissioned by Godric Gryffindor. An unsuccessful attempt by the Goblins to steal the masterpiece back creates a resentment in the Goblins that continues to this day.
999 Inspired by the sword of Gryffindor, some goblins who converted to Christianity begin the continuous forging and development of a physical Sword of the Spirit and eventually physical anchors for the rest of the Armor of God, codenamed [redacted to prevent spoilers]
1013 Salazar Slytherin creates the Chamber of Secrets and abandons Hogwarts
1054 Great Schism between Eastern and Western churches formalized
October 14, 1066 Armand Malfoy's contributions to the Battle of Hastings causes William the Conqueror to reward the wizard with land in Willshire where Malfoy Manor was eventually established.
1068 Helena Ravenclaw stashes away the stolen legendary Diadem of Ravenclaw inside a tree in Albania. She is killed by the Bloody Baron in a murder-suicide.
1069 Rowena Ravenclaw passes away, her health having declined severely ever since the death of her daughter.
1095 Start of the Crusades, the most shameful period in the history of the Magi of Ephesus
1107 Virtually all broomsticks are by now enchanted using wizardry instead of being imbued with demonic power, despite still being very uncomfortable
July 12, 1214 Ignotus Peverell is born.
1256 The Deathly Hallows are created
1289 International Warlocks Convention takes place. Decree that any positive mentions of the Magi of Ephesus be replaced by mentions of "Technomancers", and that all instances of conflict between Wizardkind and the Magi of Ephesus be blamed on the later.
1294 Triwizard Tournament established
1296 A Manticore savages a person. The beast is able to escape capture and execution by wizards due to its ferocity, but is slain by a Magi of Ephesus wearing the Armor of God.
1320 Pope John XXII formalizes persecution of witchcraft. (Only called persecution because 95% of victims didn't have Internal Spiritual Power)
1325 Historical theory proposes the Sorting Hat of Hogwarts is stolen and substituted by a group of delinquent students.
1327 Nicholas Flamel is born
1334 The woman who became Perenelle Flamel is born
1340 The Black Death spreads throughout Europe, resulting in the deaths of between 30-60% of the Muggle population. Nicholas Malfoy uses the plague to cover up a killing spree. The Wizard's Council refuses to act, as the only testimony came from Magi of Ephesus.
1379 Elizabeth Smudgling wins title of "Supreme Dueller" after winning a renowned dueling tournament in Dartmoor with the Disarming Charm, which she is believed to have invented.
1402 Eloise Mintumble time traveling from 1899 spends 5 days in the past altering history. Surprisingly only 25 people are un-born, thanks to Magi of Ephesus containing the situation as soon as they were made aware.
1406 Azkaban is built by the insane Dark Wizard Ekrizidis, who summons demons into Inferi bodies, creating Dementors.
1407 The first septennial Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held
1422 Lisette de Lapin is convicted of practising witchcraft by Parisian Muggles. However, she disappears from her prison cell the evening before her scheduled execution.
1474 Gringotts Wizarding Bank® is founded
1484 European witch-hunts start
October 31, 1492 Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington is executed on Halloween. Despite 45 strokes from the executioner's axe, the wizard's head remains attached, if only by the barest margin.
1500 The Leaky Cauldron built by Daisy Dodderidge
1504 A different version of The Wizard and the Hopping Pot emerges among wizarding families. In this version, instead of punishing a wizard for not using his talents to help others, the Hopping Pot swallows up Muggle participants in witch hunts, torches, pitchforks, and all. Only after the wizard extorts the promise that he will be allowed to practice his arts with impunity does the Hopping Pot vomit up the Muggles, all the worse for wear.
1528 A Magi of Ephesus using the Armor of God slays the last known Basilisk of the time in the British Isles.
1531 Hogwarts Headmaster Fytherley Undercliffe, who was forced into retirement from the position when he became a Christian and welcomed into the Magi of Ephesus, dies.
1532 Unable to destroy Fytherley Undercliffe's portrait in the Hogwarts Headmaster's Office, the next Headteacher places a Muteness Curse on their predecessor's portrait. The portraits of other Headmasters and Headmistresses are charged to tell anyone inquiring as to the reason behind the (rather Dark) Curse that Undercliffe was tragically driven mad by the Magi of Ephesus before his passing and would only harass witches and wizards to forsake their magic.
July 16, 1544 Jarleth Hobart makes a public demonstration of his Levitation Charm, having leapt from the roof of his local church before a large crowd of wizards and remaining suspended in mid-air. The charm was cast on his clothes, however, and when the wizard removed them (as he believed they were making him heavy and impeding his movements in mid-air) he fell to the ground. A Magi of Ephesus who was a member of the church's congregation breaks the fall that would have broken sixteen bones.
1549 Christian Missions to Japan begin
1555 Peace of Augsburg ends religious wars in Germany
1556 Gunhilda of Gorsemoor is born
1581 Gunhilda of Gorsemoor makes a deal with the demon Marbas, disfiguring her into a One-Eyed Hump-Backed woman but gaining knowledge in causing and healing diseases beyond that of ordinary mortals of the time
1582 Christian Missions to China begin
1585 Gunhilda of Gorsemoor develops a cure for dragon pox
1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada
1602 Eldon Elsrickle robs the town of London blind using the Unlocking Charm, thus introducing it to Great Britain. Blagdon Blay invents the Anti-Alohomora Charm.
1612 Goblin Rebellion of takes place in the vicinity of Hogsmeade, the village serving as the wizard headquarters. Ralston Potter becomes a member of the Wizengamot.
1631 The Wizard's Council passes the Code of Wand Use, Clause Three of which makes any non-human carrying or using a wand a felony. Largely in response to the Goblin Rebellion of 1612.
1634 Havelock Sweeting, the foremost expert on unicorns (in the wizarding world, at least) of his time is born
1635 The Académie française des sorciers is founded
1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct is developed, in hopes that werewolves sign it. Unsurprisingly, none show up.
October 1637 Armando Dippet, future Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is born.
1639 Gunhilda of Gorsemoor's soul is claimed by Marbas
1654 Flourish and Blotts® established
January 1665 Johann Hoffman makes a prophecy
September 1, 1666 The Great Fire of London razes much of the city. While Muggles are lead to believe the fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, the actual cause may have been a young Welsh Green Dragon kept in the basement of the house next door.
1672 Records dating this far back from the Department of Mysteries empirically demonstrate witches and wizards are born, not created
July 17, 1674 Isaac Watts is born
1675 Brutus Malfoy advocated the notion that witches and wizards who associate with Muggles lack magical talent, and have abilities no greater than Squibs. Ironically, a few such wizards were actually associating with Magi of Ephesus, who as a rule are granted more power than the average and median witch or wizard of a similar age.
1687 Sir Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, revolutionizing the powers of the Magi of Ephesus
1689 The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is first signed. Wizards retreat into hiding and start forming "communities within a community".
1692 International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy passed
1693 Magical Congress of the United States of America first established
1705 Magi of Ephesus by now have separated themselves from the unbelievers also capable of wielding Internal Spiritual Power. While most of the Magi of Ephesus continue to exist in the Muggle world, converted witches and wizards go into hiding similar to wizarding communities.
1707 The Ministry of Magic replaces the Wizard's Council as the governing body of the magical community of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Ulrick Gamp is elected first Minister for Magic.
1709 Dragon breeding outlawed by the Warlock's Convention
1710 Havelock Sweeting dies of complications from trying to back out of a deal with the demon known as Amdusias.
1714 Modern plumbing installed in Hogwarts. Convinus Gaunt conceals the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets behind plumbing and a sink in the girl's bathroom. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry issues a 1714 Edict, establishing rules and regulations for weekend visits to Hogsmeade.
1717 The Cruciatus, Imperius and Killing Curses first classified as "Unforgivable"
1718 Damocles Rowle is elected Minister for Magic from a "tough on Muggles" campaign platform
1720 Minister for Magic Damocles Rowle turns Azkaban into the modern wizarding prison."
July 24, 1725 John Newton is born
1726 Minister for Magic Damocles Rowle is censured by the International Confederation of Wizards and forced to step down, abdicating the office to Perseus Parkinson
April 15, 1726 Sir Isaac Newton begins to develop the theory of gravitation, the understanding of which further improves the capability of the Magi of Ephesus.
1728 A. Webb Servicing Ltd.®, a company endorsed by the Ministry of Wands®, is established.
1729 Muggles: Unchecked Nuisance or Untapped Resource? is written by Thomas Joseph Yaxley under the penname Solomon Legementon.
1733 Eldritch Diggory elected Minister for Magic
1741 Minister for Magic Eldritch Diggory is appalled at the conditions of Azkaban prison, and establishes a committee to look for a better solution. Dilys Derwent becomes Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
September 18, 1743 Gideon Flatworthy, leader of the extremist anti-Muggle group Accionites, is crushed to death when he uses the Summoning Charm to summon cattle.
1747 Albert Boot is elected Minister for Magic to replace the deceased Eldritch Diggory, who died in office from dragon pox. The committee to improve the conditions for wizarding prisoners is dissolved without doing anything.
November 25, 1748 Isaac Watts passes away
1749 Magi of Ephesus and Benedictine monk Antoine Augustin Calmet publishes a manual for tracking and combating vampires, causing a breach in the International Statute of Secrecy.
1750 Each wizarding governing body will be responsible for the concealment, care and control of all magical beasts, beings, and spirits dwelling within its territory's borders. Should any such creature cause harm to, or draw the notice of, the Muggle community, that nation's wizarding governing body will be subject to discipline by the International Confederation of Wizards. —Clause 73, International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Gladrags Wizardwear® and 2nd Hand Brooms® are founded.
1752 Goblin Rebellion in Great Britain. Not handling the rebellion well, Albert Boot resigns. Basil Flack resigns from office after only two months as Minister for Magic after goblins ally with werewolves, the shortest term any Minister has served. Hesphaestus Gore, one of the earliest Aurors, is elected Minister for Magic and manages to put down the rebellions. Hesphaestus also renovates and reinforces Azkaban Prison by invoking the dem- hem hem – "god" he was named after.
1753 J. Pippin's Potions® established
1754 Angry supporters of a broom race between Aberdeen and Rome devastate the Coliseum. A huge breach of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is avoided thanks to Orabella Nuttley giving the first public demonstration of the Mending Charm she invented.
1762 The deadly Scottish game Creaothceann is outlawed. Nicholas Flamel spotted at the opera in Paris.
1768 Dilys Derwent retires from her position as Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Tomes and Scrolls® founded.
1770 Maximilian Crowdy elected Minister for Magic
1772 Levina Monkstanley develops and uses the Wand-Lighting Charm for the first time.
1777 Several boxes of treasure are stored at the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
1779 John Newton publishes the much beloved hymn Amazing Grace.
1781 Porteus Knatchbull is elected Minister for Magic to replace the recently deceased Maximilian Crowdy.
1782 Prime Minister Lord North calls in Minister for Magic Knatchbull for assistance in dealing with King George III's mental illness. Rumours spread North believed in wizards, and he was voted out of office on a motion of no confidence.
1789 Unctuous Osbert elected Minister for Magic
1790 President Emily Rappaport enacts Rappaport's Law, total segregation between magic and non-magic communities in the United States by banning wizards and witches from marrying or befriending No-Majs, restricting them to interactions "necessary to perform daily activities."
1792 A Cockatrice escapes during a Triwizard Tournament and injures three judges
1796 Wand Repair® established
1798 Artemisia Lufkin elected Minister for Magic
1799 A Ukrainian Ironbelly carries off a Muggle sailing boat with no one on board
December 21, 1807 John Newton passes away
1811 Artemisia Lufkin replaced by Grogan Stump as Minister for Magic. The current definition of a being (any creature that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws) is laid out by Minister Grogan Stump.
January 24, 1818 John Mason Neale is born
1819 Josephina Flint elected Minister for Magic
1820 Elliot Smethwyck invents the Cushioning Charm for broomsticks, finally bringing wizard-made broomsticks up to the level of comfort that demon-made broomsticks possess.
1824 Why I Didn't Die When the Augurey Cried written by Gulliver Pokeby
1827 Ottaline Gambol elected Minister for Magic
September 13, 1827 Catherine Winkworth is born
1835 Radolphus Lestrange elected Minister for Magic
1841 Hortensia Milliphutt elected Minister for Magic
1849 Evangeline Orpington elected Minister for Magic
1852 Laverne de Montmorency starts to develop a number of Love Potions
1854 F. Lestrange stores several boxes of treasure at the family vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank®.
1855 Evangeline Orpington's term as Minister for Magic ends, Priscilla Dupont elected Minister for Magic.
February 17, 1858 Priscilla Dupont forced to step down as Minister for Magic after she developed an irrational loathing of the Muggle Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, to an extent that caused trouble such as coins turning to frogspawn in his coat pockets, etc
1858 Dugald McPhail elected Minister for Magic. Squib Angus Buchanan goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a first-year. He becomes the first and only Squib in history to try on the Sorting Hat, who announced he was "a good-hearted chap. Maybe not a wizard, but he could make one brilliant Magi of Ephesus."
1859 William Stuart Baring-Gould, noted Sherlock Holmes scholar and grandson of Sabine Baring-Gould is born. Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
1864 Several boxes of treasure are stored at the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank®
1865 The Book of Were-Wolves is written by Sabine Baring-Gould. The useful parts detailing how to neutralize and possibly cure lycanthropy and anything pointing towards the concrete existence of werewolves, however, is forcefully redacted by the Ministry of Magic. The Knight Bus is first put into operation. Faris Spavin elected Minister for Magic. The shop Borgin and Burkes® in Knockturn Alley is established. The Ministry of Magic agrees to leave Gringotts® entirely in Goblin control.
1866 Part 1 of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages is written by Sabine Baring-Gould. While not forcibly censored like The Book of Were-Wolves, all copies are jinxed so that Muggles won't be able to read the sensitive portions.
August 6, 1866 John Mason Neale passes away
1867 The last time a Hogwarts student found the secret room behind a stained-glass Hogwarts crest on the Training Grounds. Several boxes of treasure are stored at the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank®. McHavelock's Wizarding Headgear® is established.
1868 Part 2 of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages is written by Sabine Baring-Gould. While not forcibly censored like The Book of Were-Wolves, all copies are jinxed so that Muggles won't be able to read the sensitive portions.
1875 The Ministry of Magic passes the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery
1876 Hogwarts caretaker Rancorous Carpe devises an elaborate trap to capture and contain Peeves, the resident poltergeist. The trap fails and causes Peeves to come into possession of several dangerous weapons, which leads to an evacuation of the school. After three days, an agreement between Peeves and Headmistress Eupraxia Mole is reached, resulting in Peeves gaining new privileges.
1877 In August, the 393rd Quidditch World Cup takes place in the Ryn Desert, Kazakhstan. This Cup would be known to history as "The Tournament that Nobody Remembers": for some unknown reason, no one in the wizarding world could remember a single match of the whole tournament after it had ended (theories for what had transpired range from mass Memory Charms cast by the Goblin Liberation Front, at that time very active and attracting anarchist wizards, to a massive breakout of Cerebrumous Spattergroit, that causes memory loss and confusion). Tournament was re-staged the following year. The fact was a large fight broke out between several Magi of Ephesus and the witches and wizards. Everyone agreed that the event was best forgotten.
July 1, 1878 Catherine Winkworth passes away
1879 Elias Grimstone creates the Oakshaft 79™ broomstick
1880 Thomas Riddle (Sr.) is born
Summer 1881 Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore born
1882 Arthur Sullivan composes a tune for Sabine Baring-Gould's hymn Onward Christian Soldiers written in 1865. Nietzsche declares "God is dead".
1889 Sir Herbert Varney, a London vampire, preys upon various women. He is stopped and killed in 1889 by a Magi of Ephesus. Wizardkind gives credit to a special squad from the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
1892 Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore starts Hogwarts in Gryffindor House. Chudley Cannons win the League Cup of the British and Irish Quidditch League. Great Sasquatch Rebellion occurs in the state of Washington.
1895 Aberforth Dumbledore starts Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1896 Last recorded time a student successfully cheated on their OWL exam.
November 29, 1898 C.S. Lewis is born
1899 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 has short-lived friendship with Gellert Grindelwald. Ariana Dumbledore is accidentally killed as the result of a three-way duel between the two Dumbledore brothers and Grindelwald.
1900 Angus Buchanan publishes My Life As A Squib, which instantly becomes a worldwide bestseller, bringing the plight of the Squibs to the wizarding world's attention.
1901 The Moontrimmer™ broom is created by Gladys Boothby. Minister for Magic Faris Spavin, aged 145, attends the Queen of England's funeral wearing an admiral's hat and spats. In response, the Wizengamot gently suggests he step down as Minister for Magic.
1906 Faris Spavin retires from the post of Minister for Magic, succeeded by Venusia Crickerly
1907 Merope Gaunt is born
1908 Newton Scamander is sorted into Hufflepuff at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
September 1911 C.S. Lewis begins his involvement with the Occult and atheism
1912 Minister for Magic Venusia Crickerly dies in a freak Mandrake-related accident. Archer Evermonde elected Minister.
1913 Henry Potter becomes a member of the Wizengamot.
1914 First World War begins
1915 Minister for Magic Archer Evermonde passes emergency legislation preventing wizards from taking part in World War I. While Muggleborns are expected to serve if drafted, witches and wizards born in the wizarding world are ordered to stay out in order to avoid massive breaches of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Good hearted and/or patriotic witches and wizards largely disregard this, though are careful to be discreet when they provided magical assistance. Wizengamot member Henry Potter openly condemns the Minister for this policy, citing both the double standard how Magical Self-Defence Laws would permit drafted wizards to use magic openly when in mortal danger. Newton Scamander expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He works for the Ministry of Magic in the Office for House-Elf Relocation for two years.
1917 Newton Scamander transfers to the Beast Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
April 15, 1918 C.S. Lewis is WIA in the Battle of Anas
1918 First World War ends. Augustus Worme offers to fund Newton Scamander for researching and writing a comprehensive magical bestiary
1921 End of Henry Potter's term in the Wizengamot.
1923 Lorcan McLaird elected Minister for Magic
1924 British Ministry of Magic Passes Decree #157 of 1924, establishing Educational Decrees
1925 Hector Fawley elected Minister for Magic. Bob Ogden arrests Marvolo Gaunt and Morfin Gaunt. Marvolo sentenced to six months in Azkaban for assault of Ministry personnel, Morfin sentenced to three years for hexing Tom Riddle, Sr. Merope Gaunt marries a bewitched Tom Riddle Sr. in December.
1926 Bob, Bill, and Barnaby Ollerton establish the Cleansweep™ Broom Company
December 31, 1926 Merope Gaunt dies in giving birth to Tom Marvolo Riddle
1927 First edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them published
December 6, 1928 Rubeus Hagrid is born
1929 C.S. Lewis' involvement with the Occult ends. Randolph Keitch and Basil Horton create the Comet™ Trading Company. The first broom they produce is the Comet 140™.
October 11, 1930 C.S. Lewis moves to The Kilns
September 1931 C.S. Lewis re-converts to Christianity
1932 The Pure-Blood Directory published by an anonymous author, presumably Cantankerus Nott. A rogue Common Welsh Green dragon attacks a group of sunbathers in Ilfracombe in Devon, England. The vacationing Toke wizarding family manages to subdue the attack and casts the most Memory Charms relating to a single incident in the 20th Century. Magus of Ephesus Dirk Pierce along with some Muggles avoid having a Memory Charm placed on them. Dirk Pierce in particular earns a nickname as "Dodgy Dirk" for being able to consistently avoid being Obliviated, and derives great amusement in telling Muggles that a "dirty great flying lizard" punctured his inflatable mattress whenever he senses a witch or wizard within earshot.
February 13, 1933 Jonathan Neale is born to a Muggle family with a proud record of military service.
November 4, 1935 Minerva McGonagall is born
1935 Jocunda Sykes makes the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean using a non-demonic broom
1937 William Stuart Baring-Gould marries Squib Lucile "Ceil" Marguerite Moody
1938 Tom Marvolo Riddle is Sorted into Slytherin
January 5, 1939 Hosea "José" Baring-Gould is born
1939 World War II begins. Minister for Magic Hector Fawley kicked out of office after failing to satisfactorily addressing the problem of Gellert Grindelwald and is replaced by Leonard Spencer-Moon, who in contrast to Minister Archer Evermonde's policy in World War I maintained a good working relationship with Winston Churchill. Minister Spencer-Moon has the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to open training seminars on how to use magic in the presence of Muggles without their noticing, called the 'Upstanding Citizen's Workshop'.
1940 Rubeus Hagrid starts Hogwarts. Grindelwald's Revolution begins. Tinderblast™ broomstick released by Ellerby and Spudmore®.
1941 Cuthbert Binns secretly starts on a project, the details of which are redacted to prevent spoilers.
May 15, 1941 Pomona Sprout is born
1942 The International Confederation of Wizards forces the British Ministry of Magic's "Outstanding Citizen's Workshops" for all but wizards who are drafted into the British Army, declaring that a wizarding government that attempts to funds attempts of its citizens to break the International Statute of WIzarding Secrecy will face devastating sanctions. However the Confederation does offer a wink-wink nudge-nudge loophole stating, "DMLE employees who teach individual witches and wizards ways to use magic in the presence of Muggles will likewise face severe consequences if they are caught". The underlined part was present in the official documents, or at least surviving copies.
1943 Tom Marvolo Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets, directing Slytherin's basilisk to injure several students and kill Myrtle Warren. Riddle performs necromancy on Myrtle Warren's ghost, giving her the power to affect the physical world like a poltergeist but compelling her to drive people away from the bathroom and preventing her from disclosing the bathroom as the location of the Chamber of Secrets. He also creates his first horcrux. Hagrid framed for the attacks and is expelled.
Summer 1943 Tom Riddle murders his father and maternal grandparents in a ritual to create a second horcrux out of Marvolo Gaunt's Ring.
September 1944 Muggleborn Jonathan Neale is sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1945 Albus Dumbledore miraculously defeats Gellert Grindelwald in a duel near the end of World War II. Tom Marvolo Riddle graduates from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1946 Tom Riddle murders Hepzibah Smith, stealing artifacts of the Hogwarts founders Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin.
May 5, 1947 Hosea "José" Baring-Gould survives an attack from a werewolf, but is infected with lycanthropy.
August 31, 1947 Hosea "José" Baring-Gould is cured of lycanthropy by his mother Lucile and other Magi of Ephesus after managing to track down an unaltered copy of The Book of Were-Wolves.
1947 A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot first published. Werewolf Register introduced.
1948 Wilhelmina Tuft elected Minister for Magic
November 30, 1949 Molly Prewett is born
February 6, 1950 Arthur Weasley is born
1951 Muggleborn Jonathan Neale is drafted into the British Army for the Korean War. Rita Skeeter and Bellatrix Black are born.
1952 The first edition of Quidditch Through the Ages is published. The Swiftstick™ racing broom is released by Ellerby and Spudmore®. Jonathan Neale, after having been able to use magic without being noticed so far in the war, is finally outed as a wizard. To his surprise instead of facing heat for being a wizard, the worst he faces is ridicule for not telling a superior officer sooner so that he could "be placed where he could make a real difference" in a special, covert subsection of the SAS (Special Air Service) also called the SAS (Saints and Sorcerers), consisting of both wizards and Magi of Ephesus. Neal's superior officer and Magi of Ephesus, Lieutenant Colonel Justin Baker takes a demonic curse for him. Baker's last words: "No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13 Darby) sets John Neale's path to conversion and becoming one of the Magi of Ephesus.
1954 Seventh-year Minerva McGonagall has a nasty fall during the Gryffindor versus Slytherin match as a result of Slytherin captain Jo King secretly invoking a demon, which would decide the Quidditch Cup winner, which leaves her with a concussion, several broken ribs, and a lifelong desire to see Slytherin crushed on the Quidditch pitch. After graduating with top grades on her N.E.W.T.s, Minerva McGonagall starts working for the Ministry of Magic under Elphinstone Urquart. Lucius Malfoy and Quirinus Quirrell are born.
1955 Universal Brooms Ltd. releases the Shooting Star™. Narcissa Black is born.
September 1955 Muggleborn Marcus Newton is sorted into Ravenclaw at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1956 Minerva McGonagall becomes the Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1957 Albus Dumbledore replaces Armando Dippet as Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Lord Voldemort makes an unsuccessful bid for the Defense Against the Dark Arts.
1958 Minerva McGonagall becomes Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1959 Wilhelmina Tuft dies after eating Alihotsy-flavored fudge, which she was deathly allergic to. Her son Ignatius becomes her successor. Hope Howell marries Lyall Lupin. Sirius Black born.
1960 Severus Snape is born on January 9th. Lily Evans is born on January 30th. Remus Lupin is born on March 10th. James Potter is born on March 27th.
1961 C.S. Lewis develops kidney inflammation in June. Molly Prewett and Arthur Weasley are sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in September. Regulus Black is born.
1962 Nobby Leach becomes the first Muggleborn to be elected Minister for Magic after Ignatius Tuft is kicked out of office for proposing a Dementor breeding program. Bellatrix Black is sorted into Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Muggleborn Marcus Newton, Hogwarts Valedictorian, accepts a position as an apprentice Unspeakable, (called Untouchables since they are forbidden to touch anything and strictly only recharge charms and wards) at the Department of Mysteries.
November 22, 1963 C.S. Lewis is believed to have died from renal failure, the media coverage not as extensive or thorough as it might have been considering American President John F Kennedy is assassinated the same day.
1963 The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know by Professor Mordicus Egg is published by Dust & Mildew
January 26, 1964 Gilderoy Lockhart is born
1964 Marcus Newton completes his apprenticeship at the Department of Mysteries and graduates from an Untouchable to an Unspeakable.
February 16, 1965 Remus Lupin acquires lycanthropy after being attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback as retaliation for his father Lyall's description of werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving nothing but death."
1965 Newton Scamander's proposed Ban on Experimental Breeding is passed
1966 Matthew Watts is born to overly-open-minded but otherwise faithful Christian Muggles on July 21. Narcissa Black is sorted into Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in September.
September 1967 Muggleborn Lucretia Winkworth is sorted into Hufflepuff at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1967 Nimbus Racing Broom Company® formed. Unspeakable Marcus Newton is given the Order of Merlin, Third Class for discovering new ways to make Magical Oaths. The Abortion Act of 1967 legalizes abortion in England, Scotland, and Wales.
1968 Nobby Leach resigns as Minister for Magic, following a mysterious illness (Abraxas Malfoy correctly believed to play a large hand in it, but insufficient evidence to prove it). Eugenia Jenkins replaces him as Minister. Hamish MacFarlan becomes Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports. Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett graduate.
1969 Rubeus Hagrid becomes Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Nobby Leach becomes the first Muggleborn to be elected Minister for Magic after Ignatius Tuft goes beyond the political capital his late mother's popularity when he attempts to increase the Dementor population. The "Outstanding Citizen Workshop" is modified into the "Procurer's Certification Course" after the British Ministry of Magic's appeal to the International Confederation of Wizards to allow them to collect and harvest fetuses for potions ingredients from Muggle abortions is granted on the condition that any "Procurers" are specially trained to not draw attention to their activities. Barty Crouch Jr. is born.
1970 First Wizarding War against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters officially begins. The Whomping Willow planted and Shrieking Shack is built to accommodate Remus Lupin's lycanthropy. Barty Crouch, head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement, is overzealous in his efforts to combat Death Eaters and sends several people to Azkaban without trial.
1971 Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter are sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Severus Snape is sorted into Slytherin.
1972 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. Charlie Weasley is born on December 12th.
1973 Ministry of Magic dismisses an appeal against house-elf slavery. Zephaniah "Zephy" the house-elf joins the Magi of Ephesus. Bartemius Crouch Jr. starts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
1974 Muggleborn Lucretia Winkworth graduates Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and accepts a coveted apprenticeship at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
1975 Gilderoy Lockhart sorted into Ravenclaw, Remus Lupin becomes prefect. The Marauders minus Remus Lupin become Animagi. The Marauder's Map is Created. Hairy Snout, Human Heart anonymously written by a friend of Hosea Baring-Gould is published by Whizz Hard Books. Lucretia Winkworth is baptised and becomes a Magi of Ephesus. Minister for Magic Eugenia Jenkins is replaced by Harold Minchum, made good on a campaign promises to beef up the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and get the Department of Mysteries focused on public defense.
November 1975 First Ministerial Management of Magical Muggle-Born Behavioural Observation - Act Number.792 limacalf is passed, making it so that The Trace would not be removed from a Muggle-Born's wand unless they have full time jobs in the wizarding world or go through a process to become a certified "non-Risk" using the guidelines of the "Procurer's Certification Test". Disgusted, Lucretia Winkworth surrenders her wand altogether and joins the Magi of Ephesus.
1976 Sirius Black runs away from home. The Potter family takes him in. Lily Evans breaks off her friendship with Severus Snape after the later called her a "Mudblood". Percy Weasley is born on August 22nd. Victor Krum is born between May and August. Penelope Clearwater is born.
1977 Muggleborn Matt Watts is sorted into Ravenclaw at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sirius Black moves out of the Potter's home after inheriting enough money from his uncle Alphard Black to get his own place. Fleur Delacour is born. Cedric Diggory is born in September or October. Angelina Johnson is born in late October.
1978 Universal Brooms Ltd goes out of business. The year group containing the Marauders, Lily Evans, and Severus Snape graduate Hogwarts. Fred and George Weasley are born on April 1st.
1979 Lily Evans marries James Potter, with Sirius Black as best man. As revenge for annoying relatives of Death Eaters in school, Matthew Watt's parents are murdered, along with a victim given Polyjuice Potion to appear as Matt Watts. Matt Watts is forbidden from taking any inheritance, with the justification given that one of the few things Memory Charms aren't able to cover up are money trails and Death Certificates. Disgusted, Matt Watts vows to pursue advice from an unnaturally tall goblin had given him on his way out of Gringotts Wizarding Bank® when he unsuccessfully tried to find a way to receive his rightful inheritance. Peter Pettigrew starts to rat out the Order of the Phoenix to Voldemort. Hermione Granger is born September 19th. Regulus Black is murdered for betraying Voldemort. His father Orion Black passes away not long after. Newt Scamander is awarded Order of Merlin, Second Class. 800 Stink Pellets are detonated on the roof of the Daily Prophet building in Diagon Alley. Around 500 cases of "Stinkitus" were documented. Explained away to the Muggles as "an unpleasant emission from" a nearby factory.
1980 Professor Sybill Trelawney (under influence of an evil spirit) tells Albus Dumbledore a prophecy concerning a boy who will "bring light to the wizarding world". Then-Death Eater Severus Snape reports the overheard first two sentences of the prophecy to Voldemort. Alastor Moody arrests Igor Karkaroff who is sent to Azkaban. Millicent Bagnold is elected Minister for Magic. Evan Rosier and another Death Eater named Wilkes are slain in combat with Aurors. Ronald Weasley is born March 1st. Draco Malfoy is born June 5th. Dudley Dursley is born June 23rd. Neville Longbottom is born July 30th. Harry Potter is born July 31st.
October 31, 1981 Lord Voldemort enters Godric's Hollow with the intention of murdering Harry Potter. [Further details redacted to prevent spoilers]
November 1, 1981 Sirius Black framed and arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and eleven Muggles. Sirius is sent to Azkaban without trial by order of Barty Crouch Sr., Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
1981 Frank and Alice Longbottom are committed to the wizarding hospital St. Mungo after their minds snap after being tortured by Barty Crouch Jr, Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange. The four Death Eaters are arrested by a platoon of Aurors who entrust the custody of Neville Longbottom to his grandmother Augusta Longbottom. Horace Slughorn resigns from his post as Potions Master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Luna Lovegood is born Friday, February 13th. Ginny Weasley is born August 11th.
1982 Percy Weasley takes a rat he names Scabbers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Igor Karkaroff's reduced sentence ends and is released from Azkaban. Ludo Bagman is cleared of suspicions of being a Death Eater. Barty Crouch Jr is smuggled out of Azkaban as a fulfilment of his late mother's last wish. Minerva McGonagall accepts Elphinstone Urquart's marriage proposal, but she keeps her maiden name. Gilderoy Lockhart graduates Hogwarts.
1984 Matt Watts graduates from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He sets out to find the people an unnaturally tall goblin suggested he seek meet five years prior.
1985 Elphinstone Urquart dies of poison from a Venomous Tentacula under dark and suspicious circumstances.