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1290 The country of Wallachia is founded (traditional date).
1418 Mircea the Old, ruler of Wallachia dies and is succeeded by Vlad I Uzurpatorul.
1442 Vlad II Dracul
is replaced as ruler of Wallachia by Mircea.
1443 Vlad II Dracul
begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.
1447 Vlad II Dracul
, ruler of Wallachia and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi
.
1448 Vlad III Dracula becomes reigning Prince of Wallachia for two months before being deposed by Vladislav II.
1448 Battle of Kosovo - Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi
are defeated by the Turks due to the treachery of Prince Dan of Wallachia and George Brankovic of Serbia
.
1456 Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula who succeeds him.
1459 First mention of the Wallachian town of Bucharest
.
1462 Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II
in the Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.
1476 Vlad III Dracula manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time before being assassinated by decapitation. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II
of the Ottoman Empire
.
1521 the first document fully written in Romanian: the letter of Neacsu, a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Brasov, warning that the Ottoman Empire
was preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania
; the script used was Romanian Cyrillic.
1583 Petru Cercel enters Bucharest
, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.
1698 Bucharest
becomes capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania
).
1821 Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans
at Dragasani (in Wallachia).
1853 Crimean War
: Ottoman army crosses the Danube
into Vidin / Kalafat in Wallachia.
1854 Britain
sends Russia
an ultimatum to withdraw from two Ottoman
provinces it had conquered, Moldavia
and Wallachia.
1859 Wallachia and Moldavia
are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania
(see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
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