Hunedoara Castle was the place where Dracula Prince was 7 years imprisoned by Matei Corvin

1430 – Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes or Vlad Dracula) is born in the town of Sighisoara, a city in Transylvania County, on the land of Romania today. His parents were Vlad the Devil, ruler of Wallachia, another county in Romania in the south of Transylvania and the sister of the Moldova ruler (the county toward east of Transylvania).

1431 – On the 8th of February, Vlad the Devil was invested as a knight of the Dragon’s Order and recognized as the ruler of Vallahia by the Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg.

1432 – Vlad the Devil comes in Transylvania and he lives in Sighisoara

1434 – 1436 – Vlad the Devil fights to conquer Wallachia with its actual ruler and he takes his place on the throne, with full rights, being recognized by the boyars, the Hungarian royalty and by the Turks.

1437 – The third son of Vlad the Devil was born. He was the younger brother of Vlad the Impaler.

1441 – 1443 - Vlad the Devil and his two younger sons were taken captive by the Turks.

1443 – Vlad The Devil takes back the throne of Wallachia

1444 – Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes known as Dracula) is relieved of captivity and turns back to Wallachia

1447 – Vlad the Devil and his oldest son, Mircea, are killed by the turks.

1448 – After a short period of ruling Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler is forced to give up the throne

1450 – Vlad the Impaler runs to Moldova

1451 – After his uncle, Bogdan the Second, ruler of Moldova, is murdered, Vlad the Impaler runs in Transylvania

1452 – Vlad the Impaler tries to win back the throne of Wallachia, but Iancu de Hunedoara, ruler of Transylvania, is doing everything possible to stop him

1456 – Takes place the first attempt of murder against Vlad the Impaler at the order of Vladislav, the ruler of Wallachia. The attempt fails, Vladislav is killed and Vlad takes his place on the throne.

1457 – Vlad the Impaler helps Stefan the Great with his army to conquer the throne of Moldova. Also, this year, Vlad punishes the people who murdered Mircea, his older brother, and forces them to work at the building of the Poenari castle.

1460 – Dan the Young, another pretender of the Wallachia throne, fought Vlad the Impaler, but he was defeated, caught and killed by the cruel ruler.

1461 - The Turks asked Vlad to continue to pay tribute to Ottoman Sultan. Vlad the Impaler denies their request, so the Turks sent two men to send him a war declaration. But Vlad takes the men captive, punishes them because they kept their turban on the head by nailing it and impales them together with their army.

1462 - A big Turkish army flew Romania (Wallachia) over the Danube River. The Turks soldiers are frightened by the other Turks corps resting impaled along the way. A massive attack of Vlad's army came from the forest after the Turks were let without water (all the water-wells along the road were poisoned by Dracula's army). The battle was won after days of fight by Vlad and his peasant army. Turkish army is retiring and is consolidated by troops from south of Danube.

1462 - Vlad the Impaler goes to Transylvania to meet Matei Corvin and to try to get armed help against Turkish Sultan's Army. During his staying there he got arrested by the Hungarian king and sent to jail into Hunedoara Castle.

1462 - 1469 Vlad Tepes is imprisoned 7 years in the sumbre locker's room in Hunedoara Castle.

1469 - Vlad the Impaler is relieved of prison.

1472 - Vlad is married with a close relative of Matei Corvin who recognize him as a good warrior and defender of the Europe's Christian values.

1476 – Vlad the Impaler is re-elected as ruler of Wallachia by the country meeting.

1477 – Vlad the Impaler is murdered by a plot made of boyars and Turks.
His head is took by turks to be displayed on Constantinopole (today's Istanbul). His beheaded body was buried on the Holy Island of Snagov, near or inside the church. However, archeological reserch during 1929-1931 found no other traces than wolf bones.