A timeline as depicted and mentioned in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, including movies and TV and related media.
If no reference is listed then the claim is not confirmed. Claims with 3 question marks (???) are called into question and may be removed if no supporting reference is found.
In many cases where the year is not known, the frames of reference BF/AF refer to Before/After the Fangceañera which Mavis celebrated on her 115th Birthday. In common human years, BCE and CE refer to Before Common Era and Common Era.
Timeline[]
BF[]
- 3000~3001 BF - Gene is born.
- 500 BCE - Murray born.
- 772 BF - Vlad Dracula is born.[1]
- 1240-1241 BF - Lydia is born.
- 1200-1201 BF - A 40-year-old Lydia asks for "My First Mace" from Krampus.
- 1000~1001 BF - The millenium of the Dracula family dominating the once-per-century Bad Friday awards begins: including Lydia's 5 consecutive victories (4 victories are painted) followed by at least 4 victories by her younger brother (as he also has 4 paintings holding the trophy).
- Between 1101 CE to 1200 CE - Lydia is in Transylvania prior to being summoned to care for Mavis.[2]
- 1447, October 21 CE - Count Dracula is born.
- 1489 CE - Martha Lubov born.
- 1756 CE - Mavis arrives from the future and meets her father before he meets Martha and starts the Hotel.[3]
- 1757 CE - Martha and Count Dracula met.
- 1783 - Camilia Dracula turns to dust listening to pop music.
- Between 1757 and 1893 - Martha weds Count to become Martha Lubov-Dracula.
- 1855 CE - Abraham Van Helsing is born.
- 1894 CE - September 28, Mavis Dracula born.
- 1895 - 1896 CE - Martha Dracula dies, and Castle Lubov is destroyed.
- 1896 CE - Drac cares for Mavis as a baby.[4][5]
- 1897 CE - Van Helsing chased Dracula on the train.[6]
- 1898 CE - Hotel Transylvania is "human-free".[4][7]
- 1898 CE - Abraham Van Helsing begins search for Atlantis.[8][9]
- 1918 CE - The last time Drac had a date.[8][10]
- 1978-79 BF Klaus and 36-year-old Mavis have their first Vamp-Off.[11]
- 1978 CE - Tinkles is born.
- 1982 BF - Dracula forbids Mavis to like people and see the world.[4][12]
- 1983 BF - Dracula promises 88-year-old Mavis she can go out into the human world when she turns 118 while eating mice together.[4][13]
- 1991 BF - Jonathan is born.[14]
- 1995 BF - Mavis Turns 118.
- 1997 CE - Jonathan is certified as a yellow belt.[15]
- 2004 CE - Winnie is born (already present by 1st episode)
- 2006 1BF - Mavis turns 114.[16]
- 2006 BF - Mavis is 114.75 years old.[17]
AF[]
- 2007 0AF - Mavis turns 115.[18]
- 2012 3AF - Mavis turns 118.[4][19]
- Mavis goes out to see a human village
- Johnny arrives at the hotel
- Dracula makes Johnny a stein, and tries to get rid of Johnny
- Mavis meets Johnny, and they Zing
- Dracula has Johnny "party plan" for Mavis' birthday party
- Quasimodo tries to catch Johnny
- Dracula decides that humans aren't bad at all
- Dracula and his friends try to get to the airport, but stumble upon a "Monster Festival"
- 3AF~4AF - Jonathan and Mavis married.[20][21]
- 5AF+ - Mavis reveals pregnancy to father.[22][23]
- 6AF+ - Mavis gives birth to Dennis.[15]
- 7AF+ - Dennis turns 1 year old.[15]
- 8AF+ - Dennis turns 2 years old.[15]
- Dennis says his first word which is "Bleh, bleh, bleh".[15]
- 2015 CE - Porridge Head's web page is viewed.[24]
- 10AF+ - Dennis visits the birthday party of Winnie's brothers.[25]
- With 1 week until Dennis turns 5 - Mavis and Johnny take vacation to Santa Cruz, California.[15]
- Dracula and his friends take Dennis to Camp Winnepacaca.[15]
- 11AF+ - Dennis celebrates 5th birthday.
- Mavis contemplates planning a boat trip.[26]
- Mavis looking at boat trip brochures.[27]

- "Friday, July 13th" - Drac uses ZINGR for the first time.[8][28]
- Boat trip occurs and Drac meets Ericka.[8]
References[]
- ↑ Meet the Monsters describes him as 2000 and depicts events ranging from Mavis' marriage as a hundred teenager (118-119) to her pregnancy a few years later (120+) to Dennis' 5th birthday (125+).
- ↑ Lydia made the statement "Hotel Transylvania has had a sterling reputation for a thousand years." possibly indicating that a previous incarnation of it had existed prior to her younger brother starting the current one centuries later.
- ↑ Drac to the Future
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Hotel Transylvania
- ↑ The year is shown on-screen, but Mavis would be 18 years old here.
- ↑ Year is displayed on-screen at start of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.
- ↑ As stated in the film "Human-free since eighteen-ninety-eight".
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
- ↑ As said in the film "after 120 years, I finally found Atlantis."
- ↑ As said in the film "you haven't had a date in 100 years".
- ↑ Klaus references this as being 78 years ago in Becoming Klaus.
- ↑ As stated in the film "I'm not eighty-three anymore. I'm allowed to like people, or go see the world again."
- ↑ Mavis says she remembers Drac saying this thirty years ago in the 1st film.
- ↑ Jonathan states of beeing 21 years old when he meets Mavis in 3 AF. Such statement would be impossible since in Hotel Transylvania 2 a picture in his family home show an adult Jonathan in Halloween ‘97, which would place Hotel Transylvania in 1995.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 Hotel Transylvania 2
- ↑ Hotel Transylvania: The Series refers to her as this age in several episodes.
- ↑ My Little Monster-Sitter
- ↑ Fangceañera
- ↑ Jonny comments "Drac, this is the twenty-first century" so it must take place sometime between 2000 and 2099.
- ↑ She is still a "hundred teenager" according to novelization.
- ↑ This scene is not present in the movie, so in the movie she could be older.
- ↑ "A few years later" in respect to wedding, according to Hotel Transylvania 2 Movie Novelization
- ↑ The movie only says "One Year Later", and uses a different name for the character that Drac was painting.
- ↑ It is unclear whether Dennis is 2, 3 or 4 when this happens.
- ↑ Dennis is seen wearing a "4" shirt implying he is 4 years old. At this point Winnie is described as 7 years old in the novelization.
- ↑ Motel Transylvania
- ↑ Puppy!
- ↑ July 13th is a Friday in the years 2012, 2018, 2029, 2035, 2040 and 2046.