1995
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The following events occurred in the year 1995:
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- February 24 – The Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament is held in the lake of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- April – Molly Weasley sends a package of Eastereggs with her letter to her son Percy to Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger.
- June 24
- The Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament is held. Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory tie for first place, and upon seizing the Triwizard Cup, are both transported to Little Hangleton.
- After Peter Pettigrew murders Cedric, he performs a ritual to return Lord Voldemort to physical form.
- Harry escapes and informs Albus Dumbledore, who reconstitutes the Order of the Phoenix.
- Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned.
- Barty Crouch Jr. is exposed as having posed as Alastor Moody, murdered his father, and tampered with the Triwizard Tournament. He is given the Dementor's Kiss.
- The Second Wizarding War unofficially begins.
- August 2 – Harry Potter and Dudley Dursley are attacked by Dementors sent by Dolores Umbridge. Harry drives them off with his Patronus and receives a notice from the Improper Use of Magic Office for using underage magic.
- August 12 – Harry Potter's disciplinary hearing is held in front of the entire Wizengamot in Courtroom Ten at the Ministry of Magic. He is acquitted.
- August 30 – The Ministry passes Educational Decrees 22 and 23, appointing Umbridge as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.
- August 31 – Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley receive notice that they are Prefects for Gryffindor house.
- October – Dumbledore's Army is founded by Harry, Hermione, and Ron.
- Late December – Arthur Weasley is attacked by Nagini in the Department of Mysteries.
- December 25 – Neville and Augusta Longbottom visit Alice and Frank Longbottom in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
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[edit] Muggle events
- Terrorist bombing kills 168 in Oklahoma City.
- O.J. Simpson Trial.
- J. K. Rowling and Jorge Arantes are divorced.
- The DVD is invented.
- Finland wins world championship in ice-hockey for the first time.
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