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1943

 * June 13 - The monster in the Chamber of Secrets, controlled by Tom Riddle, kills a muggle-born girl. Riddle succesfully frames Rubeus Hagrid for the crime.

1944

 * Summer - Tom Riddle travels to Little Hangleton, seeking Marvolo Gaunt and the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin. He discovers from Morfin Gaunt that Marvolo is dead, and the identity of the muggle who abandoned his mother. Riddle stuns Morfin, and uses Morfin's wand to murder the entire Riddle Family. He succesfully frames Morfin by use of a memory charm, who is taken to Azkaban. In the muggle world, Frank Bryce is suspected of the murders, but never charged.

1945

 * Dumbledore defeats the Dark Wizard Grindelwald
 * Tom Riddle sweet talks Professor Slughorn into telling him about Horcruxes.
 * June - Riddle asks Professor Dippet if he can teach Defense against the Dark Arts. Partly at the advice of Dumbledore, and partly because of Riddle's youth, Dippet refuses. Riddle takes a job as an assistant at Borgin and Burkes.

1946

 * Hepzebiah Smith shows Tom Riddle Hufflepuff's Cup and Slytherin's Locket. Hepzebiah dies two days after this event, her house elf Hokey being held accountable. Riddle resigns from Borgin and Burkes and vanishes.

1956

 * December - Dumbledore becomes headmaster of Hogwarts. Minerva McGonnagal becomes head of Gryffindor house and transfiguration teacher to replace Dumbledore.
 * Shortly after Dumbledore's appointment, Tom Riddle, now calling himself Lord Voldemort, briefly surfaces to repeat his request to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Dumbledore refuses, being fully aware of some of the things that Voldemort has done since leaving Hogwarts.

1957

 * June - Professor Merrythought, Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, presumably retires at this time. From this point on, no person will be Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for more than twelve consecutive months.

1970

 * Lord Voldemort, after hiding in the shadows for more than twenty years, officially begins his campaign to purge the Wizarding world of non-pure bloods, part-humans and blood traitors, supported by his followers, the Death Eaters. Eventually, Dumbledore organises a counter-organisation, The Order of the Phoenix, to fight Voldemort and his supporters.

1980

 * March 1 - Ronald Bilius Weasley is born to Arthur and Molly Weasley.
 * June 5 - Draco Malfoy is born to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.
 * June - In the Hog's Head, Sibyll Trelawney makes a prophecy to Albus Dumbledore. The prophecy predicts that at the end of July, a boy will be born with the power to defeat Lord Voldemort. Severus Snape overhears at least part of the prophecy and reports it to Voldemort.
 * July 30 - Neville Longbottom is born. As his parents have defied Voldemort three times, he fulfils the requirements of the prophecy, and may be the boy referred in it.
 * July 31 - Harry Potter is born. As his parents have defied Voldemort three times, he fulfils the requirements of the prophecy, and may be the boy referred in it.
 * No sooner than August - Voldemort concludes that the prophecy refers to Harry, and begins searching for him. Lily and James realise that Voldemort is searching for them and their son, although they don't know why, so they go into hiding. At this point, Peter Pettigrew starts to give Voldemort information about the Potters' whereabouts.

1981

 * October 24 - The Fidelius Charm is cast, appointing Peter Pettigrew secret-keeper for the Potters' location. Most of the Potters' friends, including Dumbledore, believe Sirius Black to be the keeper, not knowing that that is a bluff planned by Sirius and Peter.

Halloween

 * Sirius Black visits Peter Pettigrew's hiding place, to find it empty. He realises that Pettigrew has betrayed the Potters to Voldemort, and heads to Godric's Hollow.
 * Voldemort arrives in Godric's Hollow. James Potter fights him, but is killed. Voldemort gives Lily the chance to survive if she lets him kill Harry, but she refuses, so Voldemort kills her. Voldemort then attempts to kill Harry, but the sacrifice of love his mother performed causes the Avada Kedavra curse to backfire, hitting Voldemort instead. While he survives due to his horcruxes, Voldemort is reduced to a spirit-form existance, and flees.

November 1

 * On Dumbledore's orders, Hagrid arrives at Godric's Hollow, to rescue Harry. He meets Sirius Black, who is too late to save Lily and James from Pettigrew's treachery. He lends Hagrid his flying motorcycle, saying that he won't need it.
 * The news of what happened at Godric's Hollow spreads rapidly through the wizarding world. The resulting discussion and celebrations attract some muggle attention.
 * Sirius Black corners Peter Pettigrew in a muggle street, intending to kill him for his treachery. Pettigrew causes a massive explosion, killing twelve muggle bystanders, before transforming into a rat and escaping. Sirius is arrested for these murders, as well as for killing Pettigrew and betraying the Potters, and is sent to Azkaban without a trial.
 * Professor McGonnagal, Dumbledore and Hagrid leave Harry with the Dursley Family in Privet Drive, his last living relatives. Dumbledore casts a spell to enhance the sacrifice Lily gave for Harry, meaning he cannot be harmed while he resides where his mother's blood, namely that of Petunia Dursley, is found. This magic will last until Harry turns 17.

1982

 * Barty Crouch Jr. and the Lestrange family are convicted of torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom, and carted off to Azkaban. As a result, Barty Crouch Sr.'s reputation is tarnished, and he is denied appointment to Minister for Magic.

1983

 * As a last favour to his terminally ill wife, Barty Crouch Sr. smuggles his son out of Azkaban. In order to keep him subdued, Crouch keeps him under the constant effects of the Imperius Curse.
 * Fred Weasley jinxes Ron's teddy bear, as revenge for breaking his broom. The fact his teddy bear suddenly turned into a huge spider causes Ron to develop arachnophobia.

1985

 * Fred and George Weasley try to get their brother Ron to make an Unbreakable Vow. Their Father, Arthur, catches them before the Vow is completed. It is the only time that Ron can remember his Father being just as angry as his Mother.

1991

 * June 22 - Dudley Dursley's birthday. Harry accidentaly releases a boa constrictor from its habitat at a zoo.
 * Sometime in July - Professor Quirrel, due to become Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts in September, encounters the disembodies Lord Voldemort in Albania. Voldemort turns him to his cause, promising him power if he helps Voldemort restore himself.
 * July 25 - Mysterious letters begin to arrive for Harry at Privet Drive. Vernon and Petunia Dursley go to extreme measures to prevent Harry reading them.

July 31

 * At the stroke of midnight, Hagrid arrives at the small shack that Harry and the Dursleys are staying at and gives Harry an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Shocked and Furious with the Dursleys for not telling Harry, he explains to him about the Wizarding World and Lord Voldemort.
 * In the morning, Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, in London, to purchase his school books and supplies. While at Gringotts, Hagrid removes the Philosopher's Stone from Vault 713, although not telling Harry what it is. Harry meets Professor Quirrel and Draco Malfoy for the first time, before returning to Little Whinging.
 * Quirrel breaks into Gringotts, attempting to retrieve the Philosopher's Stone from Vault 713, only to find the Vault empty. Voldemort posessses Quirrel at this point, to keep an eye on him.
 * September 1 - Harry travels to Hogwarts. He meets Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom and others for the first time. He will be sorted into Gryffindor house.
 * Friday of that week - Harry meets Severus Snape properly for the first time. He later introduces Ron to Hagrid, and learns of the Gringotts break-in. He suspects whoever broke in was looking for the package Hagrid had removed.
 * The following Thursday - Harry is noticed by Professor MacGonnagal flying masterfully on a broomstick. She appoints him as Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Later that night, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville encounter Fluffy the three-headed dog and the trap door it's guarding. Harry deduces whatever Hagrid took from Gringotts is now under that trap door.
 * Halloween - Professor Quirrell lets a mountain troll into Hogwarts to create a diversion so he can attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone from Fluffy. Professor Snape, already suspecting him, helps to thwart this attempt, although he is bitten by Fluffy in the process. Meanwhile, Harry and Ron rescue Hermione from the troll, which earns them her friendship with them.
 * November - During Harry's first Quidditch match, Quirrel attempts to Jinx Harry's broom so it will throw Harry off. Snape mutters a countercurse so Harry can hold on. Seeing Snape's muttering, Hermione assumes that he is actually jinxing Harry's broom. She sets Snape's cloak on fire to break his eye contact, knocking Quirrel over and breaking his eye contact in the process. Harry catches the Snitch, meaning Gryffindor beat Slytherin 170-60. Hermione and Ron now agree with Harry's suspicions about Snape. Hagrid accidentally lets slip about Nicholas Flamel. The three will spend the rest of the term trying to find out about Flamel.
 * Christmas Night - Harry uses the Invisibility Cloak that Dumbledore secretly gave him to sneak about the castle. He finds the Mirror of Erised.
 * Boxing Day Night - Harry and Ron return to the Mirror of Erised.
 * December 27th - Harry sneaks to the Mirror of Erised again. Here he finds Albus Dumbledore waiting for him and the two speak properly for the first time, Dumbledore explaining how the mirror works.

1992

 * No later than early January - Dumbledore casts a spell to seal the Philosopher's Stone inside the Mirror of Erised. Professors Snape, Quirrel, MacGonnagal, Flitwick and Sprout each add a layer of protection, which is completed with the addition of Fluffy.
 * March - Harry, Ron and Hermione learn about Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone.
 * Snape offers to referee the Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff Quidditch match, explicitly to protect Harry from Quirrel. Harry is worried, for he still believes Snape tried to kill him before. Both Snape's and Harry's concerns are relieved when Dumbledore decides to personally attend the match. Harry goes on to catch the Snitch in five minutes.
 * After the match, Harry sneaks off to tail Snape, who he saw sneaking off into the forest. He spies on Snape as he threatens Quirrel about his attempts to steal the stone. Harry believes Snape is strong-arming Quirrel into helping him. Voldemort believes Snape, a former death eater, to be a traitor for these actions.
 * Shortly before Easter - Quirrel, in a cowled cloak, gets Hagrid drunk at the Hog's Head, and gives him a dragon egg as Hagrid explains how to pacify Fluffy.
 * Easter - The trio confront Hagrid with what they've learned, and learn about the different protections surrounding the stone. They discover the dragon egg, which hatches at the start of the summer term.
 * Two weeks later, Norbert the Dragon is smuggled out of Hogwarts by friends of Charlie Weasley and taken to Romania. Harry, Hermione, Neville and Malfoy are all caught out of bed by Argus Filch and Professor MacGonnagal, costing Gryffindor 150 points and Slytherin 20 points. The three Gryffindors become instant pariahs.
 * The following Saturday night, Harry, Hermione, Neville and Malfoy carry out their detentions in the Forbidden Forest. Harry comes face to face with Quirrel and Lord Voldemort, before being rescued by Firenze the centaur. Harry realises that whoever is trying to steal the stone is doing so to give Voldemort a new body. He still believes it is Snape.

June

 * Upon completing his last exam, Harry talks to Hagrid and learns whoever gave him Norbert discovered how to get past Fluffy. Harry tries to warn Dumbledore, but Dumbledore has left for the Ministry of Magic.
 * That night, the trio sneak out of bed, aiming to get to the stone before Snape does. Hermione has to petrify Neville, who tries to stop them breaking rules.
 * A combination of the trio's skills and strengths allow them to penetrate each of the layers of protection. Ultimately, Harry traverses the final barrier alone, and confronts Quirrel. Harry is able to keep Quirrel and Voldemort from getting the stone until Dumbledore arrives. Voldemort flees, killing Quirrel in the process. Harry is unconscious for three days.
 * While Harry is unconscious, Gryffindor suffer their worst Quidditch loss for three hundred years at the hands of Ravenclaw.
 * Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, and Dumbledore explains several things to him. He refuses, however, to tell Harry about the prophecy that lead Voldemort to hunt Harry in the process, believing him to be too young.
 * At the end of year feast, Dumbledore awards Ron, Hermione, Harry and Neville a total of 170 points, allowing Gryffindor to win the House Cup for the first time in seven years. Everybody returns home, Harry conveniently forgetting to tell Uncle Vernon that he's not allowed to do magic.

1992

 * Throughout July - Arthur Weasley writes a Muggle Protection Act, to which Lucius Malfoy, a former Death Eater, objects strongly. Malfoy hatches a plan to use the diary Lord Voldemort gave him years ago to open the Chamber of Secrets, and have both Dumbledore and Arthur discredited. His house-elf Dobby knows of the plan, but cannot tell anyone as Malfoy has forbidden him from doing so. Aware that Harry could be in danger if he attends Hogwarts while the plan is in effect, Dobby starts stealing Harry's post from his friends, believing Harry won't go to Hogwarts if he thinks his friends have forgotten him.
 * July 31 - Dobby meets Harry directly, giving him a vague warning about impending danger at Hogwarts. After Harry refuses to not go to Hogwarts, Dobby levitates a violet pudding and ruins the Dursley's Dinner Party, with the added effect of Vernon learning that Harry isn't allowed to perform Magic outsite of Hogwarts. Vernon turns Harry's bedroom into a prison cell, and is adamant that Harry won't return to Hogwarts in September.
 * August 2 - Ron, Fred and George turn up in their father's flying Ford Anglia and rescue Harry from Privet Drive. Harry tells them about Dobby, and they suspect Draco Malfoy sent him as a joke.
 * Mid-August - Harry and the Weasley Family travel to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies. Harry meets Lucius Malfoy and Gilderoy Lockhart, the latter announcing his appointment as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Malfoy hides Riddle's Diary inside Ginny Weasley's Transfiguration book.
 * The rest of August - Ginny works out how the diary works and speaks to the memory of Tom Riddle inside, using him as a confidant for all her secrets and woes.
 * September 1 - The Weasleys arrive just in time to catch the Hogwarts Express. However, the magical barrier separating Platform Nine and Three Quarters from the Muggle World is sealed by Dobby when Harry and Ron try to pass through, meaning they miss the train. They steal Arthur's car and fly it to Hogwarts, where it crash lands on the Whomping Willow, breaking Ron's wand in the process. They are caught attempting to sneak into Hogwarts by Professor Snape, who informs them they were seen by several muggles. Despite the seriousness of their actions, Professor MacGonnagal decides not to expel them, and gives them detentions. Arthur Weasley faces an enquiry for enchanting the car.
 * The following Saturday, it is revealed that Draco Malfoy is the new Slytherin Seeker, having got his father to give the entire team top-quality racing brooms. When Hermione points this out, Malfoy calls her a 'Mudblood', properly introducing the concept of blood purity to Harry and Hermione.
 * That night, Harry serves his detention with Professor Lockhart, answering his fan mail. During this time, Harry hears a mysterious threatening voice.
 * Over the course of September and October, Tom Riddle possesses Ginny Weasley and makes her strangle the school roosters, so the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets can operate without fear of their crow killing it.
 * Halloween - Harry, Ron and Hermione attend Nearly Headless Nick's 500th Deathday Party, at which they meet Moaning Myrtle, who leaves early and floods her bathroom. Upon leaving the party, Harry hears the threatening voice again, and follows it to find the petrified body of Mrs. Norris, Argus Filch's cat, who stared into the eyes of the basilisk via the reflection in the water. A threatening message says that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened.
 * November - Upon learning about the legend of the Chamber of Secrets, the trio suspect Malfoy of being the Heir of Slytherin. Hermione devises a plan to use polyjuice potion to spy on Malfoy and find out what they can.
 * During the opening Quidditch match, a bludger goes 'rogue' and keeps flying towards Harry, resisting all efforts to drive it away. Harry wins the match for Gryffindor, but not before having his arm broken by the bludger. In an inept attempt to repair it, Lockhart accidentally removes all the bones in it, necessitating Harry stay overnight in the Hospital wing.
 * That night, Dobby visits Harry in the hospital wing, and explains it was him who sealed the barrier and made the bludger attack Harry, his reasoning that if Harry was seriously injured enough, Hogwarts would send him home. Harry tries to tell him what's going on, but Dobby is forbidden by his master to explain it properly. Dobby disappears, then Harry sees several teachers bring in Colin Creevey, another victim of the basilisk.
 * Harry, Ron and Hermione begin work on the Polyjuice Potion.
 * December - at the Duelling Club, Harry reveals to the school he can speak Parsletongue, which lead people to believe he is the Heir of Slytherin. Also during the club, Hermione takes a hair off Millicent Bullstrode's robes, for use in the Polyjuice Potion, believing it to be Millicent's own hair.
 * Last day of term - Harry is seeking Justin Finch-Fletchly to assure him he's not the Heir of Slytherin, when he hears the threatening voice again. He follows it to find both Justin and Nearly Headless Nick petrified. Argus Filch catches him at the scene and gets Professor McGonnagal to send him to Dumbledore's office. Harry meets Fawkes for the first time, and the Sorting Hat stands by its decision that Harry would have done well in Slytherin, not helping Harry's self doubt. Dumbledore arrives, and believes that Harry is not responsible for the attacks, although Harry decides not to tell him about the voices.
 * Christmas - Arthur Weasley is fined Fifty Galleons for his flying car. The Polyjuice Potion is completed. Harry and Ron use a sleeping potion to knock out Crabbe and Goyle, and steal some of their hairs. Harry, Ron and Hermione take the potion, which works perfectly. For some reason, Hermione refuses to go with them to the Slytherin Common Room. Harry and Ron follow Malfoy to the common room, and talk with him about the Chamber of Secrets. He reveals that he is not the Heir of Slytherin, and that his father knows, but won't say. Harry and Ron flee from the room as the potion wears off, and returns to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, to find Hermione as part-cat. Having used Millicent Bullstrode's cat's hair in the potion, it won't wear off without outside assistance. Hermione goes to the hospital wing for several weeks.

1993

 * January - Ginny Weasley finally suspects that the diary is causing her to lose her memory, and tries to flush it down a toilet in Myrtle's bathroom. Myrtle's subsequent flooding of the bathroom lead Harry and Ron to the diary, although neither them or Hermione can initially work out how to use it.
 * Valentine's Day - During Lockhart's Valentine's Day celebrations, Harry gets the diary soaked in ink, which mysteriously vanished. Ginny sees him with the diary, and panics that Harry will find out all her secrets.
 * That night, Harry figures out how to work the diary, and speaks with Tom Riddle, who shows him selective parts of his own memory, heavily implicating Hagrid as being responsible for opening the Chamber earlier.
 * April - Morale at the school is improving, as there have been no attacks for four months. People no longer suspect Harry to be the Heir. Both Harry and Ron choose Divination and Care of Magical Creatures for their Third Year courses, while Hermione signs up for everything.
 * On the night before Gryffindor's Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, Ginny sneaks into Harry's dormitory while he is training and steals back the diary.
 * Just before the match, Harry hears the voice again. Hermione realises that Harry is hearing a snake, and rushes to the library and reads about the basilisk, working everything out. She encounters Penelope Clearwater, and they use a mirror to look around a corner. They see the basilisk, which petrifies them, the passage about the basilisk clenched tightly in Hermione's hand. The Quidditch match is cancelled.
 * Upon hearing about the attack, Lucius Malfoy strong-arms the other school governers into signing an order to suspend Dumbledore from Hogwarts.
 * That night, Harry and Ron sneak out to confront Hagrid, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge. Desparate to make the Ministry appear to be taking action, Fudge takes Hagrid into custody, placing him in Azkaban prison until the attacks stop. Lucius arrives shortly after, with the order to suspend Dumbledore.
 * April/May - Following Hagrid's cryptic clue of "Follow the spiders", Harry and Ron follow a trail of spiders into the Forbidden Forest, where they encounter Aragog, who tells them about a girl dying in a bathroom. Aragog lets his family attempt to eat Harry and Ron, but they are rescued by the Ford Anglia. Harry realises that Moaning Myrtle was the victim of the monster.
 * Late May - Exams are set for June 1.

The Friday before the Exams
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 * Professor McGonnagal announces that the mandrake draft will be ready that day, and the victims will be allright.
 * Harry and Ron visit Hermione. Harry notices the paper in her hand and, with difficulty, extracts it. He reads about the basilisk and figures everything out. Before he can tell anyone, it's discovered that Ginny Weasley has been taken into the Chamber itself, and arrangements will have to be made for the school to close.
 * Upon learning of the abduction, the School Governers, apart from Lucius Malfoy, contact Dumbledore and ask him to return to Hogwarts.
 * Harry and Ron decide to take what they know to Gilderoy Lockhart. Upon entering his office, they discover that he plans to flee, and that he is a fraud taking the work of others and passing it off as his own. He attempts to erase Harry and Ron's memories of this discovery, but Harry disarms him.
 * The three of them go to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, and talk to her about how she died. She directs them to a specific sink, which Harry opens using parsletongue. They enter the Chamber of Secrets.