Some Events in Vampire History! (Up to 2002)

Vampire Timeline:

(from http://www.hellhorror.com/vampire-timeline.html)

5000 BC The emergence of Vampirism in the Mediterranean.
2000 BC Tomb of Vampire is erected in Giza, Egypt.
31 Jesus is claimed to have healed vampires at Capernaum.
140 Reign of Longinus, Rome's Vampire Emperor.
1047 "Upir" makes it's first appearance as a word referring to a Russian prince as "Upir Lichy", or wicked vampire.
1096 First Crusade expels vampires from The Holy Land, Jerusalem.
1196 "Chronicles" by William of Newburgh's. It recorded several stories of vampire-like revenants in England.
1428 "Dracula"; aka Vlad Dracula or aka Vlad the Impaler is born.
1477 Vlad the Impaler is assassinated.
1484 The Malleus Maleficarium (the witch hunter's bible) is written by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The topic of how to hunt and destroy a vampire is discussed within it's pages.
1530 Italian scientist Ludovico Fatinelli burned at the stake for suggesting a biological cause for vampirism in his "Treatise on Vampires"
1560 Erzsebeth (Elizabeth) Bathory is born.
1607 "The Ship of the Dead" brings vampires to the New World
1610 Elizabeth Bathory is tried and convicted of killing several hundred of girls. Her sentence is life imprisonment.
1614 Elizabeth Bathory dies.
1679 A German vampire text, "De Masticatione Mortuorum", is written by Phillip Rohr.
1734 The word "vampyre" enters the English language.
1748 The first modern vampyre poem, "Der Vampir", is published.
1813 A vampire appears in Lord Byron's The Giaour.
1819 John Polidori's "The Vampyre," is the first vampire story in English is published.
1847 Bram Stoker is born.
1850 Haussman destroys Paris' Vampire Quarter then rebuilds city.
1854 Copper Creek Siege in California prompts formation of Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency.
1872 In Italy, Vincenzo Verzeni is convicted of murdering two people and drinking their blood.
1882 New York Vampire riots ensue.
1891 Steketee's Vampire Rights movement in France is started.
1897 "Dracula" by Bram Stoker is published in England.
1905 Worldwide vampire population hits the one million.
1924 Fritz Haarmann the "Vampire of Hanover" is arrested, tried and convicted of killing more than 20 people in a vampire crime spree.
1931 Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, is released.
1932 The movie "Vampyr," directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer, is released.
1936 "Dracula's Daughter" is released.
1943 U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt unveils "The Zozobra Project".
1943 "Son of Dracula", stars Lon Chaney, Jr., as Dracula.
1950 In New Mexico an auto mechanic named Joe Valdez becomes the first successful recipient of the vampire vaccine.
1962 The Count Dracula Society is founded in the United States by Donald Reed.
1964 "The Munsters" and "The Addams Family"; television shows with vampire characters.
1965 Jeanne Youngson founds The Count Dracula Fan Club.
1967 Due to the Lazo Disaster in Siberia, the United Nations (UN) passes a resolution banning vampire blood research.
1970 Sean Manchester founds The Vampire Research Society."In Search of Dracula" by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu is published. --Stephan Kaplan founds The Vampire Research Centre.
1976 The first of the Vampire Chronicles, "Interview With the Vampire", by Anne Rice is published.
1979 Frank Langella stars in the remake of Dracula.
1980 Richard Chase, the so-called Dracula Killer of Sacramento, California, commits suicide in prison.
1985 "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice is published and reaches the best seller list.
1986 President Reagan lifts ban on the vampire and zombie blood research.
1987 "Methuselah Project" is initiated at the Santa Rosa Institute.
1988 "The Queen of the Damned" is published by Anne Rice.
1991 Vampire: The Masquerade," the vampire role-playing game is released by White Wolf.
1992 "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by Francis Ford Coppola opens. Andrei Chikatilo of Russia, is sentenced to death after killing and committing vampirism 55 people.-"The Tale of the Body Thief" by Anne Rice is published.
1994 The film version of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" opens with Tom Cruise as the Vampire Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis.
1998 Blade is released into theaters. Pandora by Anne Rice is published. The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice is published.
1999 Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice is published.
2002 Blade II is released in theaters.

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