B.C. era

The following events occurred in the B.C. era:


 * c. 1445 — 425 B.C.: The Old Testament is written.
 * c. 800 — 140 B.C.:
 * Herpo the Foul first hatches the Basilisk and devises the ritual to create an Horcrux.
 * First recording of an Animagus — Falco Aesalon.
 * Odysseus slains Cyclops.
 * Mopsus, a Seer, defeats Calchas in a competition of their powers.
 * Circe transfigures lost sailors into pigs in her native Aeaea.
 * Andros the Invincible produces the only recorded Patronus the size of a Giant.
 * c. 500 B.C.: In the Israelite-Philistine war, the Giant mercenary Goliath is slayed by a young boy with a slingshot.
 * 382 B.C.: The Ollivander family start their wand-making business. The Ollivander family would be regarded as the best British wandmakers until the late 1990s, at least.