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harry potter - In what year did Voldemort curse the DADA job


Dumbledore tells us that DADA professor job at Hogwarts was cursed - no teacher lasted for more than a year - ever since Voldemort was denied the position.




"Oh, he definitely wanted the Defence Against the Dark Arts job. The Aftermath of our little meeting proved that. You see, we have not been able to keep a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for more than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort." - HBP.



Is it known from canon what year that event happened? In other words, how many years was the job cursed for?


(we know the curse ended in Year 7, after Voldemort's death, with Carrow being the last 1-year-termer).



Answer



According to the Harry Potter Lexicon, it is estimated that Voldemort cursed the Dark Arts position in 1957:



1957 (Y-23) [Voldemort] resurfaces and applies to teach [Defence Against the Dark Arts] Ten years after the death of [Hepzibah Smith], [Voldemort] returns to [Hogwarts], where Dumbledore] refuses to grant him a teaching job. He then curses the [Defence Against the Dark Arts] position, and since that day, no professor has stayed for more than one year in that post. Again we don't know exactly when this happened, but since most evidence points to [Dumbledore] becoming headmaster in 1956 [[Y-24]], [Voldemort] couldn't have come looking for a job much sooner than this. (HBP20)




This is an approximation. I have never been able to find specific dates regarding Voldemort, except for his attack on Harry on October 31, 1981, in canon.


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