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1431
Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler) is born. He grows a handlebar moustache then spends
much of his cumulative eight years in power terrorising and slaughtering invading
Turks.
1437
After a 1437 peasant uprising in Transylvania, Magyar nobles form a political alliance
with Székely and Saxon leaders, dubbed the Union of the Three Nations.
1453
The fall of Constantinople. The Ottomans block trade on the Black Sea, deepening Ro-
mania's isolation.
1467
Stephen the Great (Ştefan cel Mare) defeats the Hungarian army (Hungary's last at-
tempt to conquer Moldova), then defeats Tartar forces at Lipnic and finally invades
Wallachia (1471) to repel the Ottomans.
16th century
The Turks conquer Hungary, and Transylvania becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Em-
pire.
1600
Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia are united for 15 months under Mihai Viteazul.
1606
The Treaty of Vienna gives religious and constitutional rights to Hungarian-speaking
Transylvanians but none to Romanian-speaking people.
1683
The Ottomans' siege of Vienna ends in the defeat of the Turks; then the Habsburg em-
pire moves in to take control of Transylvania.
1784
 
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