Timeline of Vlad III Dracul (Tepes)


AD 125
Legends of vampirelike creatures occur in Greek mythology.

1310-1352
Basarab the Great, prince of Wallachia.

1431

  1. The Dragon Order is founded.

  2. Vlad III Dracul is born in Romania in November or December.

1436

  1. Vlad Dracul claims the Wallachian throne.

  2. Vlad III'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

  1. Vlad II sent his two younger sons to Adrianople as hostages.

  2. Ladislas Posthumous, king of Hungary, launched the Varna Campaign under the command of John Hunyadi in an effort to drive the Turks out of Europe.

1447
Vlad Dracul was assassinated along with his son Mircea.

1448

  1. Vlad III returns home from Adrianople.

  2. October-November: Vlad III ruler of Wallachia.

1451
Prince Bodan of Moldavia assassined.

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

1456-1462
Vlad II rules Wallachia.

1456

  1. Hunyadi invaded Turkish Serbia while Dracula smultaneously invaded Wallachia.

  2. Vladislav II was murdered soon after Vlad II came to power.

1457
Vlad II 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 Vlad II at Tirgoviste.

1459
Vlad II 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 Vlad II's capital of Tirgoviste.

1462-1466
McNally and Florescu place Vlad II'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

  1. Radu the Handsome, Vlad II's brother, returns home from Adrianople.

  2. Vlad II launched a campaign against the Turks along the Danube river and during the winter he gained many victories.

  3. Vlad II is forced to flee to Transylvania by the Turks.

c. 1474-1475
Radu the Handsome dies.

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

1476

  1. November: Basarab is driven out of Wallachia and Vlad II rules again.

  2. December: Vlad II is killed in battle against the Turks near Bucharest.

1897
Bram Stoker wrote his novel Dracula.