Timeline of the Fantastic Beasts series

A timeline of events in, or relating to, the Fantastic Beasts film series.

If listing any specific dates, please use a reference and make note of the canon source that the information comes from, including a short quote if necessary.

Timeline

Early events (pre-1926)

This section is for listing events that take place prior to the beginning of the series.

c. 1326	Nicolas Flamel is born.
1392	Gaston McAaron Équipement Quidditch is established in Paris.
1485	Monsieur Sanfin Chaudrons is established in Paris.
17th century	In what would become the United States, the Scourers, a band of rogue wizarding mercenaries, that engaged in wizard-trafficking to witch-hunting Puritans in exchange for gold manage to evade justice by marrying and integrating into No-Maj society, "winnowing out" any magical children to maintain their cover. Seeking revenge, the surviving Scourers instil an abiding conviction in their descendants that magic actually exists and that wizards and witches ought to be wiped out — the Barebone family counts among these descendants.
1614	Baguettes Magiques de Cosme Acajor is established in Paris.
1634	Griffon Buveur is established in Paris.
1693	The Magical Congress of the United States of America is established, as a direct result of the troubles caused by the Scourers that culminated in the Salem Witch Trials.
1790	The French Ministry of Magic is established.
1790	L. Beardmore & Co. Apothecaries, specialising in the sale of magical herbs and spices, is established.
1702	McTawny Broomsticks, an American manufacturer of broomsticks, is established.
c. 1720s	By his own admission, this was the last time Nicolas Flamel had "seen action" before Gellert Grindelwald's Paris rally in 1927.
March 1848	Steen National Bank is incorporated.
1875	Shaw News, an American No-Maj newspaper publishing company, is established.
August 1881	Albus Dumbledore is born to Percival and Kendra Dumbledore.
c. 1883	Gellert Grindelwald is born.
1883 or 1884	Yusuf Kama is born to Mustafa Kama and Laurena Kama.
Between February 1888 and February 1889	Theseus Scamander is born.
Between September and December 1896	Leta Lestrange is born to Corvus Lestrange and Laurena Kama. Laurena Kama dies in childbirth.
24 February 1897	Newton Scamander is born.
1899	Ginzberg Delaunay, a No-Maj department store on Madison Avenue, New York, is established.
1900	Jacob Kowalski is born.
1 September 1899 or 1900	Theseus Scamander starts at Hogwarts is Sorted into Hufflepuff.
19 August 1901	Porpentina Goldstein is born to Mr and Mrs Goldstein.
1901	Irma Dugard takes Corvus Jnr and Leta Lestrange to the United States of America by sea; midway through the voyage, Leta swaps Corvus for Credence Barebone, who was also travelling to America accompanied by an aunt, just before the ship sinks. Corvus drowns.
Between c. 1901 and 1905	Chastity Barebone is born.
6 January 1903	Queenie Goldstein is born to Mr and Mrs Goldstein.
c. 1904	Seven-year-old Newton Scamander takes to spending hours in his bedroom dismembering Horklumps.
Summer 1906 or 1907	Theseus Scamander graduates from Hogwarts.
1 September 1908	Newton Scamander and Leta Lestrange start at Hogwarts and are Sorted into Hufflepuff and Slytherin, respectively.
December 1910	Leta Lestrange befriends Newton Scamander for the first time, on the last day of the winter term. Both stay at Hogwarts over Christmas.
Between 24 February and Summer 1913	Albus Dumbledore teaches Newton Scamander and Leta Lestrange's class about Boggarts. Leta's boggart is revealed to the whole class to be her drowing baby half-brother. Newt later comforts Leta on Bowtruckle Island.
1913	One of Leta Lestrange's experiments involving a Jarvey went too far, endangering the life of another student. It also violated laws prohibiting the possession of this creature. Rather than see his good friend expelled, Newton Scamander took the blame, and was thus sentenced to be expelled from Hogwarts in Leta's place.
28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918	First World War Jacob Kowalski serves in the Muggle American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. His brother does as well, and dies during the conflict. Theseus Scamander has a distinguished participation in the war, earning a reputation as a "war hero". Newton Scamander becomes part of a secret Ministry of Magic operation to wrangle Ukrainian Ironbellies on the Eastern Front. This programme is ultimately cancelled as the dragons tried to eat everyone other than Newt.
c. 1915 to 1917	Newt Scamander starts working in the Ministry of Magic's Office for House-Elf Relocation, an experience he would later describe as "tedious in the extreme". At this point, he was earning a pitiful salary of two Sickles a week.
1917	Newt Scamander is transferred to the Beast Division, where his extensive knowledge of magical creatures leads to a rapid series of promotions.
Between December 1917 and December 1918	Modesty Barebone is born.
1918	Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books commissions Newton Scamander to write an authoritative compendium of magical creatures for his publishing house: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
1920	Seraphina Picquery is elected President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
1924	Jacob Kowalski returns to the United States after the First World War.
1925	Phineas Nigellus Black dies and is, possibly, succeeded in the post of Hogwarts Headmaster by Armando Dippet.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (1926)

16 November 1926	Porpentina Goldstein tracks Credence Barebone and sees him leaving the Second Salem Church accompanied by two younger children, Modesty and Chastity, who she correctly assumes are his adoptive siblings.
21 November 1926	Porpentina Goldstein follows Credence Barebone as he leaves the Second Salem Church in Pike Street and makes his way through Cherry Street, Monroe Street, Barclay Street and Park Place, and is intrigued at what he might be doing near the Woolworth Building, the headquarters of the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
25 November 1926	Newton Scamander boards the Royal Star steamer HMS Temeresi as a second-class passenger (Cabin M-49), bound for the United States of America.
30 November 1926	Porpentina Goldstein searches the records of New York State Department of Health's Division of Vital Statistics to establish Modesty and Chastity are also Mary Lou Barebone's adoptive daughters.
6 December 1926	Newton Scamander arrives in New York; at Steen National Bank, he accidentally switches cases with Jacob Kowalski. An escaped Murtlap, Niffler, Demiguise, Erumpent, and Occamy cause disturbances around the city. Mary Lou Barebone of the New Salem Philanthropic Society preaches to the public on the steps of Steen National Bank, accompanied by her three adopted children, Credence, Chastity, and Modesty. Later that day Langdon Shaw takes the Barebones to his father, Henry Shaw Senior's, office in an attempt to garnish the support of his newspaper company; the meeting escalates quickly as Langdon's brother, Senator Henry Shaw Junior calls Credence a freak. Porpentina Goldstein takes Newton Scamander and Jacob Kowalski to her apartment, where they meet Queenie Goldstein; they are to spend the night there while Jacob recovers from a Murtlap bite. Newt and Jacob flee the apartment to catch the escaped creatures: they catch the Niffler in a jeweller's on Diamond District, and the Erumpent at Central Park Zoo. A fundraising dinner hosted by Senator Shaw is interrupted by the Obscurial; Shaw is killed. The International Confederation of Wizards convenes in MACUSA: Tina Goldstein interrupts the meeting taking Newt and Jacob in. They are wrongly implicated in Senator Shaw's death and are arrested overnight.
7 December 1926	"Percival Graves" interrogates Newton Scamander and Porpentina Goldstein and unilaterally sentences them to death. Newt and Tina escape the Death Cell, while Queenie Goldstein saves Jacob Kowalski from Obliviation and retrieves Newt's case from Graves's office. Newt, Tina, Jacob, and Queenie meet Gnarlak at The Blind Pig, hoping for information on the rest of the creatures: the plan is to catch all the escaped creatures so that MACUSA cannot use them as scapegoats for the Obscurus attacks. Following Gnarlak's tip, they catch the last of the escaped creatures, a Demiguise and an Occamy, in a department store on Fifth Avenue. Mary Lou Barebone finds a toy wand in the Second Salem Church, and abuses Credence Barebone; she is killed by the Obscurial and the church is destroyed. "Percival Graves" concludes Modesty is the Obscurial and asks Credence to take him to her; in The Bronx, "Graves" abuses Credence and it becomes apparent Credence is the Obscurial. Obscurial attack on New York; Credence wreaks havoc across the city, especially around Times Square. He retreats into the Subway.
8 December 1926	Obscurial attack on New York; at dawn, MACUSA Aurors nearly destroy Credence. "Percival Graves" is exposed as Gellert Grindelwald in disguise and arrested. Following the colossal breach of the International Statute of Secrecy, Newton Scamander directsFrank the Thunderbird to Obliviate the thousands of No-Maj witnesses en masse by tainting the rain with Swooping Evil venom. MACUSA officials repair the damage around the city. Jacob Kowalski's memory is erased with the Swooping Evil venom; the venom, however, is only good to erase bad memories, and Jacob, unlike all the others, still retains memories of the wizarding world.
15 December 1926	Newton Scamander intentionally bumps into Jacob Kowalski after a day's work at Moreton Dale Canning Factory; he swaps their suitcases, leaving Jacob with several silver Occamy eggshells to be used as collateral for a bank loan to fulfil his dream of opening a bakery.
16 December 1926	Newton Scamander leaves New York; Tina Goldstein accompanies him to the harbour and suggests a title for his book on magical creatures: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
26 December 1926	Credence Barebone joins the Circus Arcanus and boards the SS Ondine, bound for Paris, France.
March 1927	Queenie Goldstein visits Jacob Kowalski's successful bakery, Kowalski Quality Baked Goods; Jacob experiences a flicker of memory.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (1927)

19 March 1927	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is launched at 7 o'clock, at Flourish and Blotts, Diagon Alley. Newton Scamander, his brother Theseus, Leta Lestrange, and Bunty attend.
30 May 1927	Attempted extradition of Gellert Grindelwald to Europe. Gellert Grindelwald's escape.
September 1927	Search for Credence Barebone Attack on Irma Dugard Infiltration of the French Ministry of Magic Gellert Grindelwald's Paris rally
6 June 1928	Scheduled date for Theseus Scamander and Leta Lestrange's wedding.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (1932)

1928	Seraphina Picquery's term as President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America ends.
1932	1932 International Confederation of Wizards' Supreme Mugwump election. The three candidates are Vicência Santos, Liu Tao, and Gellert Grindelwald.
1939	British Minister for Magic Hector Fawley is blamed for not doing enough to contain Grindelwald's threat to the world wizarding community and is forced from office, to be replaced by Leonard Spencer-Moon, who was known to mantain a good working relationship with Muggle Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Later events (post-1930s)

1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945	Second World War takes place; the Muggle war and Grindelwald's Global Wizarding War fuel each other.
1945	Albus Dumbledore defeats Gellert Grindelwald in a "spectacular duel of legend" and becomes master of the Elder Wand.
1947	Newton Scamander creates the Werewolf Register, of almost his sole responsibility.
1965	Newton Scamander is responsible for the introduction of the Ban on Experimental Breeding.
1979	Minister for Magic Harold Minchum awards Newton Scamander the Order of Merlin, Second Class "in recognition of his services to the study of magical beasts, Magizoology".
Early 1990s	By this time, Newton Scamander had retired and was living in Dorset with his wife Porpentina and their three pet Kneazles, Hoppy, Milly, and Mauler. He was, however, known to still travel to study Fire Slugs in the Brazilian rainforest. By this time, Nicolas Flamel had retired to a quiet life in Devon with his wife Perenelle.
June 1992	Following Lord Voldemort's first plot to regain power, Albus Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel decide to destroy the Philosopher's Stone. Flamel ceases to be immortal and dies shortly afterwards.
30 June 1997	Albus Dumbledore dies during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower at the height of the Second Wizarding War.
March 1998	Lord Voldemort murders Gellert Grindelwald in his cell at Nurmengard Castle, in a fit of rage; Voldemort was looking for information on the Elder Wand and Grindelwald taunted him and assured him he welcomed death.
Between c. 2008 and 2014	Wedding of Newton Scamander's grandchild Rolf Scamander and Luna Lovegood. Birth of Rolf and Luna's twin sons (Newton and Porpentina's great-grandsons) Lorcan and Lysander.
July 2014	Newton Scamander babysits his great-grandsons Lorcan and Lysander as their parents travel to the Patagonian Desert in Argentina to attend the final match of the 427th Quidditch World Cup.
c. 2017	Official documents regarding Newton Scamander's role in the hunt for Gellert Grindelwald, up until then under the protection of the Official Magical Secrets Act, begin to be declassified. Rita Skeeter publishes Man or Monster? The TRUTH about Newt Scamander. Newt Scamander writes a new foreword to the 2017 edition of his textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and takes the opportunity to contradict Skeeter's most "glaring inaccuracies".