AD 125
Legends of Vampirelike creatures occur in Greek mythology

1310-1352
Basarab the Great, prince of Wallachia

1431
The Dragon Order is founded
Vlad III Dracula is born in Romania [November or December]

1436
Vlad Dracul claims the Wallachian throne
Dracula's education begins

1436-1442
Vlad Dracul tried to walk a middle course between his powerful neighbours

1442
Vlad tried to remain neutral when the Turks invaded Transylvania

1443
Vlad II regain the Wallachian throne with Turkish support

1444
Vlad sent his two younger sons to Adrianople as hostages
Ladislas Posthumous, king of Hungary, launced the Varna campaign under the command of John Hunyadi in an effort to drive the Turks out of Europe

1447
Vlad Dracul was assasinated along with his son Mircea

1448
Dracula returns home from Adrianople
October-November: Dracula ruler of Wallachia

1451
Prince Bodan of Moldavia assassined

1453
Constantinople, Byzantine succumbes to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror

1456-1462
Dracula rules Wallachia

1456
Hunyadi invaded Turkish Serbia while Dracula simultaneously invaded Wallachia
Vladislav II was murdered soon after Dracula came to power

1457
Dracula impaled Transylvanian merchants who had ignored his trade laws

1458
September: Benedict de Boithor, a Polish nobleman in the service of the King of Hungary, visited Dracula at Tirgoviste.

1459
Dracula arrested all the boyar families who had participated to the princely feast on St. Bartholomew's Day in Brasov - thirty thousand were impaled

1460
Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu

1461
Mohammed II returns to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of twenty thousand impaled corpses rotting outside of Dracula's capital of Tirgoviste

1462-1466
McNally and Florescu place Dracula's actual period of confinement to this time

1462-1474
The Russian pamphlets indicate that Dracula was a prisoner during this time, but this period is open to some debate

1462
Radu the Handsome, Dracula's brother, returns home from Adrianople
Dracula launched a campaign against the Turks along the Danube river and during the winter he gained many victories
Dracula is forced to flee to Transylvania by the Turks

circa 1474-1475
Radu the Handsome dies

1475
Vlad was again recognized as the prince of Wallachia for a short time

1476
November: Basarab is driven out of Wallachia and Dracula rules again
December: Dracula is killed in battle against the Turks near Bucharest

1897
Bram Stoker wrote his novel Dracula