1979

The following events occured in the year 1979:

Events

• Sybill Trelawney makes the Prophecy about a person who will have the power to defeat Lord Voldemort.
• Sybill Trelawney becomes the Divination professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• Newt Scamander is awarded the Order of Merlin, Second Class.
• 1 April: Caractacus Phelps exploded eight hundred Stink Pellets by dropping them en-masse from the roof of the Daily Prophet building in Diagon Alley. The resultant gas cloud caused untold discomfort throughout London and approximately five-hundred cases of 'Stinkitus' were reported. The non-magical authorities explained the stinking cloud away as an unpleasant emission from a nearby factory.
• 1 September: Gwenog Jones starts at Hogwarts and becomes a favourite of Horace Slughorn.

Births

Hermione Granger.

• Katie Bell (presumed)
• Eddie Carmichael (presumed)
• Cho Chang (presumed)
• Cormac McLaggen (presumed)
• 19 September: Hermione Granger to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, Muggle dentists.
• Marietta Edgecombe

Deaths

• Orion Black
• Cygnus Black III
• Regulus Black

Muggle events

• 1979 at Wikipedia

See also

• Dating conventions