Events prior to 1800

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The following events in the wizarding world occurred before the year 1800:

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1000 BC - Magic is recorded for the first time in Ancient Egypt.
382 BC - Ollivander's Wand Shop begins the business of making wands.
c. AD 962 - Primitive broomsticks are first used for transport.
c. 993 - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is founded by Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.
The Annual broom race, held in Sweden, begins in the 10th century

A ancient Greek wizard

Salazar Slytherin creates the Chamber of Secrets and abandons Hogwarts.
Gertie Keddle watches and writes about one of the first primitive games of Quidditch.
Helena Ravenclaw (also known as the Grey Lady, the ghost of Ravenclaw house) steals Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem and hides it in a tree in a forest in Albania.
The Bloody Baron stabs Helena Ravenclaw when she refuses to come back to England with him, and then kills himself with the same knife.

1105 - Stichstock's Günther der Gewalttätige ist der Gewinner (Gunther the Violent is the Winner) is painted.^[1]
1107 - Guthrie Lochrin writes about the discomfort of riding brooms.^[2]
1163 - The Quidditch team Puddlemere United is formed.^[3]

1203 - The Quidditch team Holyhead Harpies is formed.
1269 - Barberus Bragge becomes Chief of the Wizards' Council.
1269 - The Golden Snidget is introduced as part of the game of Quidditch.^[4]
1289 - The International Warlocks' Convention is held.
1291 - The Quidditch team Kenmare Kestrels is formed.^[3]
1292 - The Quidditch team Pride of Portree is formed.^[3]
c. 1294 - The Triwizard Tournament is established.
1296 - A Manticore savages a person. The beast is unable to be captured due to its ferocity, and escapes execution.

Witch burnings increase because of Muggle fear of magic.
The German broom game Stichstock dies out.
Bowman Wright invents the Golden Snitch as a replacement for the now endangered Golden Snidget.
Burdock Muldoon is made Chief of the Wizards' Council.
Elfrida Clagg succeeds Burdock Muldoon as Chief of the Wizards' Council.
1312 - The Wimbourne Wasps Quidditch team is formed.^[3]
1326 - Nicolas Flamel, creator of the Philosopher's stone, is born at around this year.
1333 - Perenelle Flamel wife of Nicolas Flamel was born around this year.
1357 - Cyprian Youdle, the first Quidditch referee who has been known to have died during a Quidditch match, dies.
1362 - The Wizards' Council bans all Quidditch matches within 50 miles of a town or village.^[5]
1368 - The Wizards' Council bans Quidditch matches within 100 miles of a town or village.^[5]
1385 - First recorded Quidditch match in Ireland.^[6]
1398 - Zacharias Mumps writes a description of what resembles modern day Quidditch.

Triwizard Tournament egg from the First Task

Quidditch takes up increased popularity in Europe.
Beater bats are enchanted to make their swing more powerful.
1402 - The Caerphilly Catapults Quidditch team is formed.^[3]
1419 - The Wizards' Council bans the playing of Quidditch where any Muggle may witness it.^[5]
1422 - The Wigtown Wanderers Quidditch team is formed.^[3]
1426 - The Mnemosyne Clinic for Memory Modification opens.
1430 - Alberta Toothill wins the All-England Wizarding Duelling Competition.
Before 1441 - Gifford Ollerton kills the giant Hengist of Upper Barnton.
1473 - The First Quidditch World Cup is played between Flanders and Transylvania, during which all 700 possible Quidditch fouls are committed.^[6]
1492 - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington is killed; even after 45 blows with an axe, his head remains attached to his neck, thus earning him the nickname "Nearly-Headless Nick".

1500 - The Leaky Cauldron was built.
Quidditch Beaters experiment with iron versus lead Bludgers.
1520 - The Tutshill Tornadoes Quidditch team is formed.^[3]
1538 - A Quidditch ban is imposed which restricts the use of wands on opposing players.
Late 1500s or early 1600s - St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is founded by Mungo Bonham.

Quidditch is introduced to North America (causing anti-wizard sentiment) and New Zealand.
1612 - The Goblin Rebellion begins, with Hogsmeade serving as their Headquarters.
1612 - The Appleby Arrows Quidditch team is founded.^[3]
1620 - Quintius Umfraville writes the book The Noble Sport of Warlocks.^[7]
1631 - The Ministry of Magic bans all magical beings other than wizards from carrying a wand^[8].
1637 - The Werewolf Code of Conduct is written.
1652 - The European Cup is created so that a league with only European Nations exists.^[6]
1674 - The British and Irish Quidditch League is formed.
1675 - Brutus Malfoy advocated the notion that witches and wizards who associate with Muggles lack magical talent and has same level as Squibs. He used his influences on an anti-Muggle periodical Warlock at War, where he is an editor.^[9]
1689 - The International Statute of Secrecy is first signed.^[10]
1692 - The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is passed.^[5] ^[8]

Quidditch is introduced to Australia.
The game Quodpot is created by Abraham Peasegood.
1709 - The Warlock's Convention outlaws Dragon breeding.
1711 - Quaffles are first coloured red to make them distinguishable during a muddy winter.^[7]
1722 - Dilys Derwent starts her career as a St. Mungo's Healer.
1741 - Dilys Derwent become Headmistress at Hogwarts.
1749 - A breach in the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy involving Vampires is contained, and safety concerns are met with new laws.
1750 - The Department of Magical Games and Sports is established.
1750 - The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is changed, adding Clause 73 to the code: "Each nation is responsible for keeping the Magical Creatures within their nation secret from Muggles.^[11]
1762 - The extremely dangerous Scottish game Creaothceann is outlawed.^[1]
1768 - Dilys Derwent retires as Headmistress of Hogwarts.
1782 - Flavius Belby discovers the Lethifold and survives its attack.
1792 - A Cockatrice escapes during a Triwizard Tournament and injures three judges.
1794 - The first recorded sighting of an Acromantula is in Borneo.
1799 - A Ukrainian Ironbelly Dragon carries off a Muggle sailing boat with no one on-board.

Dates
Events prior to 1800 - 19th century 20th century 21st century

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