1890s

The following events happened in the 1890s.

Events

 * 1892: Albus Dumbledore starts his first year of Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor.
 * 1892: The Chudley Cannons win the Cup in 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.
 * 1895: Aberforth Dumbledore begins his first year of Hogwarts.
 * 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.

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

Notes and references
Años 1890