1940s

The following events occured in the 1940s:

Events

 * 1940 - Rubeus Hagrid starts Hogwarts.
 * 1943 - Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. Hagrid is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is expelled.
 * 1944 - Minerva McGonagall graduates.
 * 1945 - Albus Dumbledore defeats Gellert Grindelwald, who is sentenced to life in Nurmengard.
 * 1947 - The Werewolf Register is introduced.

Births

 * Fabius Watkins

Deaths

 * c. 1941 - Hagrid's father
 * 1942 - Eunice Murray
 * 1943 - A girl named Myrtle (last name unknown)
 * 1943 - Tom Riddle Sr.
 * 1943 - Cygnus Black I

Real-world events

 * World War II, which began in 1939, ends in 1945.
 * The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
 * The Cold War begins in 1947.