16th century

The following events occurred in the 16th century:

• Quidditch Beaters experiment with iron versus lead Bludgers.
• Eoessa Sakndenberg was Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the early sixteenth century.
• A different version of the The Wizard and the Hopping Pot emerges among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole. At the end of the story, by which time the Pot has consumed most of his neighbours, the wizard extracts a promise from the few remaining villagers that he will be left in peace to practise magic. In return, he instructs the Pot to render up its victims, who are duly burped out of its depths, slightly mangled. This happened because of the persecution of witches and wizards all over Europe in the early fifteenth century.

Decades

• 1500s
• 1510s
• 1520s
• 1530s
• 1540s
• 1550s
• 1560s
• 1570s
• 1580s
• 1590s

Notes and references

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