Vampires in Venice - Timeline
- 1804 George Sand is born
- 1810 Alfred de Musset is born
- 1812 Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is published in installments through 1818
- 1813 Byron’s vampire poem Giaor is published
- 1819 Byron’s Don Juan is published in installments through 1824
- 1833 Sand one-night-stand with Prosper Mérimée; she later meets Alfred de Musset
- 1834 Sand and Musset’s trip to Venice
- 1836 Musset’s memoir La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
- 1838 Sand’s relationship with Chopin begins, lasting till 1846
- 1840 Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
- 1846 Sand’s Lucrezia Floriani
- 1848 Dumas fils novel La Dame aux camellias; in 1852 it became a play (known as Camille in English) and in 1853 it became the Verdi opera La Traviata
- 1849 Death of Chopin
- 1857 Death of Alfred de Musset
- 1858 Sand’s Elle et Lui, which is followed by Paul de Musset’s Lui et Elle
- 1859 Gounod’s Faust
- 1870 Death of Mérimée
- 1876 Death of George Sand
- 1886 Death of Franz Liszt