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Cop and Death Eater Chase
*When date is Jan. 1 = no specified date James Potter and Sirius Black are chased by two police men, Fisher and Anderson, as well as three Death Eaters on broomsticks, while riding on Sirius's motorbike. They escape, however, by using magic to lift the police car, causing the three Death Eaters to crash into it. -
Dorea Potter (nee Black) dies
Dorea Potter and Charlus Potter are part of the Potter family. They had one son. By speculation, they /might/ be the parents of James Potter. Dorea and Charlus died within the same time of each other of natural causes. They were both old when they had James. However, if they were merely an aunt and uncle to James, they must have died(son included) before 1981, since James did not have any remaining family left. -
Sirius Gets His Own Place
Sirius Black gets his own place with money he inherited from his uncle Alphard Black.
Alphard Black was disowned for that action. -
Fred and George
Fred and George Weasley were born. -
Graduating Hogwarts
James Potter, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and Severus Snape leave Hogwarts. -
The switch of the horcrux/Regulus' death
Regulus dies in switching the locket of Slytherin horcrux with a fake one. As he goes to the lake to drink water, inferi dragged him to his death. To everyone else, no one knew how he died. Sirius believed that Regulus had simply gotten in too far and was killed for trying to back out of being a Death Eater. -
Orion Black (Sirius's father) dies
Orion Black, father of Sirius and Regulus Black, passes away, assumingly from natural causes.
Not known if Regulus dies before Orion does, -
Evan Rosier's death
Instead of fleeing to save his neck, Evan Rosier stood his ground to fight Alastor (Mad-Eye) Moody. He was a great duelist, even blasting a significant part of Moody's nose off. Alastor, finished him off.
This was after Igor Karkaroff was captured by Moody and sent to Askaban. -
Wilkes' Death
Wilkes was killed off by Aurors, like Rosier, choosing to fight rather than to flee. It was around the same time as Rosier was killed. -
The new Minister of Magic
Millicent Bagnold becomes the Minister of Magic. -
Ron Weasely
Ron Weasely is born. -
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy is born. -
Trelawney's Prophecy(cont.)
the position, Sybill entered a trance and made a prophecy about Voldemort's defeat. It so happened that Severus Snape was eavesdropping at the door, but only heard half of it. Hoping to protect Sybill, Dumbledore hired her. -
Trelawney's Prediction(cont.)
The Prophecy: "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies.--"
Snape leaves.
"--And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not, and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives." -
Trelawney's Prophecy
Sybill Trelawney, who, by this point, had begun making false predictions, arranged a meeting with Albus Dumbledore in the Hog's Head, where she was staying, in the hopes of acquiring the position of professor of Divination at Hogwarts School. Dumbledore agreed to give her a chance because of her ancestry. Sybill displayed none of Cassandra's divinatory skills, which disappointed Dumbledore, who was planning on discontinuing the subject anyway. After courteously telling her she was not fit for.. -
Dudley Dursley
Dudley Dursley is born. -
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom is born. -
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is born. -
James and Lily start a future
*around this time James and Lily get married. Harry is conceived. -
Marlene McKinnon and her family dies.
Marlene and her family were murdered by Death Eaters in early July. Karkaroff implicated Travers as one of the people involved. -
Edgar Bones and family dies
Edgar Bones, who was part of the Order, was married and had more than one child. Before the end of the war, his family was murdered by Death Eaters, including his father and mother. -
Dorcas Meadowes dies
*could have died any time after the second half of the year and before Voldemort's downfall.
Very powerful witch, Voldemort killed her himself. -
Caradoc Dearborn disappears
*not the actualy time he disappered, just known towards the end of the war
Order member, Caradoc Dearborn disappears 6 months after taking the Order of Phoenix group photo. He was presumably killed by Death Eaters. His body was never found. -
Fabian and Gideon Prewett dies
*not official date, died before the end of the war
Order members and brothers, Fabian and Gideon Prewett dies by battling 5 Death Eaters, one of who was Antonin Dolohov. Alastor says they fought like heros. -
Benjy Fenwick's Death
Order member, Benjy was brutally killed by Death Eaters during the war, one of whom fired a curse that blasted Benjy to pieces, and then disposed of his remains. According to Moody, in their search for Benjy's body, they only ever found "bits of him." -
The Framing of Sirius Black
After betraying the Potters, Pettigrew was pursued by Sirius Black, and was eventually cornered by him on a crowded London[1] street. Pettigrew then loudly accused Black of betraying the Potters, created an explosion, and escaped, leaving behind a finger he had cut off to fake his death. -
Harry at the Dursley's
Sirius lends Hagrid his flying motorcycle. Hagrid takes Harry to the Dursleys house where Dumbledore and McGonagall await him. -
The Framing of Sirius Black(cont.)
This explosion claimed the lives of twelve Muggles and left a deep crater in the street(among them, a police officer, guitar player, a Queen's Guard, and 9 citizens).Surviving Muggle witnesses reported what Pettigrew said to Ministry of Magic officials. They erased the memories of surviving Muggle witnesses and disseminated the story that the explosion had been caused by a leak in a gas main.Thus framed, Black was imprisoned in Azkaban without trial. -
Longbottoms Tortured
Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr. are arrested for the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom. The Longbottoms are committed to St. Mungo's and Neville is taken into the care of his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom. -
The fall of Voldemort
Lord Voldemort kills James and Lily Potter, but his Killing Curse rebounds off infant Harry Potter, causing the Dark Lord to lose physical form and Harry to gain a lightning-shaped scar and become a Horcrux. Snape discovers that Lily is dead and mourns. He leaves as soon as Sirius gets there to discover the Potters.