Quidditch timeline Flint?

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 19340


I finally got around to checking the info given on the Quidditch World 
cup to try and get a new handle on the overall timeline.  
Unfortunately it didn't work out very well (in supporting the 
existing timeline that is), but I'll summarise it here for those of 
you who are interested. Sorry, if it's been said before, but I missed 
it if so.

In Fantastic Beasts, It states that "the year 1473 saw the first ever 
Quidditch World Cup..." and also that "The World Cup has since been 
held every four years"

Well, OK, so they could have missed a few (for major wars etc.), but 
like the Olympics may have kept to the schedule - ie: had an 8 or 12 
year gap where some had been missed.  Unfortunately this leads to a 
date of 1995 for the GoF event, which from Nearly Headless Nicks 
deathday party should in fact be 1994. 

Now, the last bit of evidence comes in GoF when Bagman is 
commentating.  He says... "Welcome to the final on the four hundred 
and twenty-second Quidditch World Cup!"  Now this just has to be a 
Flint.  If the cup started in 1473 and runs every 4 years, it would 
only be the 129th Cup in 1995 if none had been missed.

I guess Bagman meant 122nd Cup and that somewhere after one of the 
'gaps' the actual year the event was held on moved back a year (so we 
get 1994 instead of 1995).

Florence