Previous Dark wizards....

[vheggie at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27895

Right at the beginning of PoA, whilst recapping on the previous 
stories, the narrator states that "They [Lily and James] had been 
murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred 
years, Lord Voldemort"

Is this just a turn of phrase, or was there really another dark 
wizard uprising towards the end of the nineteenth century?