1890s

The following events happened in the 1890s.

Events

 * 1892: Albus Dumbledore starts his first year of Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor.
 * 1895: Aberforth Dumbledore begins his first year of Hogwarts.
 * 1896: A student successfully cheats on their Ordinary Wizarding Levels. This would be the last successful instance of this for at least the next century.
 * 1899: Albus Dumbledore sits his N.E.W.T.s and graduates from Hogwarts in a blaze of glory: Head Boy, Winner of the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Conference in Cairo. Later in the summer, Dumbledore befriends Gellert Grindelwald during the latter's stay in Godric's Hollow, but their friendship is short-lived; during a row, a three-way duel broke out between Albus, Grindelwald and Aberforth which ended in the accidental death of Ariana Dumbledore.
 * 1899: The Witches' League is founded.
 * 1899: Eloise Mintumble became trapped for five days in the year 1402, messing up time so severely that it was Tuesday for two and a half days and Thursday disappeared in four hours. When she got back to the present, her body had aged five centuries, and she died in hospital.

Quidditch

 * 1892: The Chudley Cannons win the League Cup of the British and Irish League, the last cup they have ever won.
 * 1894: The Department of Magical Games and Sports bans the tradition of shooting arrows into the air to celebrate an Appleby Arrows goal after referee Nugent Potts is pierced through the nose by one arrow.

Births

 * 1894: Cassandra Vablatsky
 * 1895: Magenta Comstock
 * 1897: Newton Scamander

Deaths

 * 1893: Laverne de Montmorency
 * 1893: Arcturus Black I
 * 1899: Kendra Dumbledore
 * 1899: Ariana Dumbledore
 * 1899: Eloise Mintumble

Notes and references
Años 1890