1940s
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The following events occured in the 1940s:
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[edit] Events
- 1940 - Rubeus Hagrid starts Hogwarts.
- 1943 - Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. Hagrid is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is expelled.
- 1943 - Tom Riddle murders his father, Tom Riddle Sr. and his grandparents, for his abandoning of his late mother, Merope Gaunt. His uncle, Morfin Gaunt was framed for the attacks by Riddle and is sent to Azkaban.
- 1944 - Minerva McGonagall graduates from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- 1945 - Tom Riddle graduates from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- 1945 - Albus Dumbledore defeats Gellert Grindelwald, who is sentenced to life in Nurmengard.
- 1946 - Tom Riddle murders Hepzibah Smith, stealing artifacts of Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin
- 1947 - The Werewolf Register is introduced.
- 1947 - A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot is first published.
- 1949 - A hippocampus is caught by Merpeople off the coast of Scotland.
[edit] Births
- 1940 - Fabius Watkins
- 1945 - Devlin Whitehorn
- c. 1946 - Broderick Bode
- 1947 - Laurentia Fletwock
- 1949 - Molly Prewett
[edit] Deaths
- c. 1940 - Mr. Hagrid
- 1942 - Eunice Murray
- 1943 - Moaning Myrtle
- 1943 - Tom Riddle Sr.
- 1943 - Cygnus Black II
- 1946 - Hepzibah Smith
[edit] Muggle events
- World War II, which began in 1939, ends in 1945.
- The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- The Cold War begins in 1947.
- The Allies land in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
- Mike Newell, director of the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[edit] See also
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