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Bees aren't balls! (homefrontmod) wrote,
@ 2011-11-13 17:12:00

Year	Event(s)
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910	September--Gellert Grindelwald steals the Elder Wand from Gregorovitch April--Wizarding Suite banned after exploding tuba blasts the roof off the Ackerley town hall. -- June--WWN founde August--WPAN (Wizard CSPAN) founded -- -- May--Chelsea Hat and Flower show cancelled after Selwyn matriarch, Evangeline Selwyn, loses an eye over a naval battle between two hats -- May--Chelsea Flower Show resumes with a portion of proceeds going to restorative medicine research at St. Mungos. --
Year	Event(s)
1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920	-- -- -- 28 June--✒ ☀ Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting the Great War in the muggle world. August--Britain hosts International Quidditch Cup March--✒ British conscription begins for WWI, affecting several muggleborns and muggle hospital born halfbloods before the Muggle Liaison committee steps in on their behalf. June--KWDC founded August--Ireland hosts International Quidditch Cup 16 December--✒ ☀ Russian Ministry Liaison to the Russian Emperor and Ministerial Senior Undersecretary Grigori Rasputin killed by muggle political opponents. February--✒ ☀ The Russian Revolution in muggle Russia overthrows Tsar Nicolas and the Romanov Dynasty. The Russian Ministry of Magic, still upset over the assassination of Rasputin begins serious discussion of withdrawing completely from the muggle world. June--☀ Russia petitions Durmstrang to cease accepting Russian muggleborns. As the largest country contributing to Durmstrang, its representation on the board of governors makes the decision an easy pass. August--Wales hosts International Quidditch Cup October--✒ ☀ Bolshevik Revolution in muggle Russia replaces the provisional government with a soviet led one. The Russian Ministry of Magic makes no attempts to contact them. August--Britain hosts International Quidditch Cup 18 November--✒ ☀The Great War ends. 21 November--KWDC commentator Artie Lefkowicz laments Armistice “the end of British Quidditch as we know it.” Understandably, some witches and wizards with muggle relatives are upset with this. -- ☀ Beauxbatons board of governors discusses admitting Russian muggleborns, the motion fails to pass
Year	Event(s)
1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930	-- -- -- April--Arabella Branwick resigns as Minister for Magic. Leslie Anderly appointed new Minister for Magic. April--Bob, Bill, and Barnaby Ollerton start the Cleansweep Broomstick Company. May--✒ Britain returns to the gold standard. Gringotts goblins temporarily cease exchanging muggle and foreign wizarding currency until exchange rates can be stabilized. August--Phineas Nigellus Black dies. Armando Dippet becomes Headmaster of Hogwarts. -- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander published -- May--Comet Trading Company opens 29 October--✒ Crash of the muggle stock market in New York (USA) heralds the beginning of the Great Depression (Great Slump). Britain who never fully recovered from the Great War is hit hard like the rest of Europe. Over the next 2 years, British muggle unemployment rises to 20%, and exports decrease to 50%. April--Head of the International Trading Standards body and chief goblin at Gringotts jointly announce decision to sever ties between muggle and wizarding economic communities. exchange of galleons for pounds sterling does not officially resume until 1935. Though some exceptions are granted for muggleborn students to purchase secondhand textbooks.
Year	Event(s)
1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940	-- 12 July--☄ Ilfracombe Incident--a Welsh Green dragon lands on a beach. Tilly Toke and family cast a large mass memory modification charm. Awarded Order of Merlin, first class for their efforts. August--Appleby Arrows win vs. Vrasta Vultures in 16 day match. January--✒ ☀ Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany February--✒ ☀ German Reichstag burns allowing Hitler to assume power under the guise of protecting the people June--☀ German Ministerial Employee Gellert Grindelwald, observing muggle political instability, makes a strong call for isolationism like the Russians. Anyone with strong pro-muggle sympathies can easily become suspect -- April--Jocunda Sykes becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic on a broomstick June--☀ German Minister for Magic outed as son of a squib, asked to step down by the German Wizengamot 26 July--Gringotts announces that it will once again exchange GBP for galleons August--☀ Gellert Grindelwald, Junior Undersecretary to the Minister, assumes his post as German Minister for Magic through a combination of public support, political pressure on opponents, and overt threats. September--✒ ☀ German Jewish population stripped of rights by the Nuremburg Race laws. These laws will be appropriated by German wizards in an attempt to disenfranchise muggleborns, squibs, muggle associated halfbloods. June--✒ ☀ Civil War erupts in muggle Spain. Fearing a repeat of what happened in Russia, the Spanish Ministry of Magic temporarily relocates to Britain. Many emigrés stay. July--☀ German muggleborns and halfbreeds, while not stripped of their wands, are denied access to Ministry jobs and relocated to particular streets. May--☀ German Ministry requests German muggleborns be denied entrance to Durmstrang. The motion passes easily. January--☀ Durmstrang Board of Governors moves to deny all muggleborns access to Durmstrang. In a contentious battle, Representatives from Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and Northern France refuse. Germany, Russia, and many smaller Eastern European states are able to force the measure through in April. April--☀ Muggleborns currently enrolled at Durmstrang are expelled November--☀ German muggleborns barred from emigration outside of Germany. April--☀ Beauxbatons, in defiance of Durmstrang’s move to deny muggleborns entrance, extends its coverage of European students to include disenfranchised muggleborns. Carriage routes are set up through France, Italy, and Poland, to avoid going through German territory. 1 September--☀ Grindelwald sends his DMLE to Poland to stop the travelling coaches bringing muggleborns to Beauxbatons under the guise of defending the statute of Secrecy. DMLE officers use brute force to stop carriages when official paperwork fails. Muggleborn children are either displaced from the carriage, obliviated and left to their own devices, or injured/ killed in attempts to stop the carriages. This happens to coincide with the date muggle Germany invades Poland. 3 September--☀ French Ministry of Magic appeals to the British Ministry for aid. Minister for Magic Leslie Anderly is reluctant to get involved in what seems to be a singular battle between France and Germany. 3 September--✒ Muggle Britain declares war on Germany. 15 November--Anderly expresses a severe threat that if Germany does not withdraw from Poland, magical Britain may have to do the same. The Scandanavian Ministry of Magic declares neutrality. On the same day, he makes a speech on the WWN promising to do all in his power to keep Britain out of war. February--British Ministry of Magic passes a limit on the number of muggleborn emigrés it will accept in response to the ever increasing number of petitions from European muggleborns. April--Tinderblast broom by Ellerby and Spudmore released. Sales are low as a German broom is viewed as suspect during a war with a German wizard. April--Britain, spurred on by the successes at Durmstrang, begins discussions to exclude muggleborns from Hogwarts, however, ideological differences place discussion at an impasse. April--☀ German, Russian, and Scandanavian Ministries of Magic form and alliance against French forces. May--The British DMLE, entirely unofficially, begins sending aide to France when a squadron of six aurors and two hitwizards all put in for simultaneous sick leave. Justus Pilliwickle, typically a notorious stickler for rules, grants them leave with pay. July--☀ French Ministry of Magic falls to Germany September--✒ Muggle German bombing of muggle Britain intensifies. Many wizards are both directly and indirectly affected by this. 7 November--Leslie Anderly disappears. An international search begins. Mark MacMillan named de facto Minister for Magic. MacMillan takes a much more aggressive stance with the war on the continent 12 November--☀ German Ministry of Magic officially disavows any knowledge of Anderly’s disappearance. Gellert Grindelwald is quoted on record as saying “perhaps the coward merely desserted.” 15 November--British Ministry of Magic declares war on Germany. Britain starts funnelling supplies and manpower into France.
1941 1942	January--☄ ☀ Gellert Grindelwald enlists aid of giants in fighting the British in France. Despite perhaps an obvious opening, he refuses to set foot on British soil. The same cannot be said for some of his covert operations troups. April--British Ministry of Magic places obliviators in several British military troups on front lines. Further, places dispatchers within several British communications bases. March--Magical journals invented. May--☀ Muggleborns in German occupied territories stripped of their wands. Possession of a wand by a muggleborn becomes a capital offense. June--☀ Muggleborns and halfbreeds banned from Beauxbatons under German superveillance 11 November--☀ Nuremgard opens in Poland. Muggleborns guilty of stealing magic, as well as ‘dangerous” halfbreeds, and enemies of the state are sent to this camp. Initially muggleborns from conquered territories are preferentially moved here in an attempt to squash resistance movements. March--☀ Nurmegard Prison is full. Extermination of prisoners begin. 15 May--Albus Dumbledore receives a personal communication from Gellert Grindelwald, equal parts invitation to join him and challenge for Dumbledore to defeat him.