1352–1353
Prince Dragoș comes to Moldavia, organizing an autonomous military mark (borderland).

1359–1365
Bogdan I is enthroned as Prince of Moldavia, gaining its independence.

1453, May 29
Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and puts an end to the Byzantine Empire.

1457, April 12
Stephen the Great conquers the throne of Moldavia, after defeating Peter Aron at Doljești; he is anointed prince by Metropolitan Theoctistus I.

1463, July 5
marriage of Prince Stephen the Great with Princess Evdokia of Kyiv.

1466, July 10
the foundational stone of Putna Monastery, princely necropolis, is laid.

1467, November 25
Evdokia of Kyiv, consort of Stephen the Great, dies and is buried in Suceava.

1467, December
Prince Stephen’s victory at Baia against the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus.

1469, September 3
Putna Monastery is consecrated; Metropolitan Theoctistus I officiates the service.

1472
marriage of Stephen the Great with Maria Asanina Palaiologina, princess of Theodoro (Mangup) and relative of the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.

1473
Hieromonk Nicodemus, the calligrapher from Putna, writes the Gospel Book for Humor Monastery, the first in the Romanian Principalities to contain the portrait of a ruler (Stephen the Great).

1475, January 10
the great victory at Vaslui; Stephen addresses a letter to all Christian rulers.

1477, December 19
death of Maria Asanina Palaiologina, buried at Putna; Stephen the Great commissions a cover for her tomb containing the first life-size embroidered portrait of a princess from the Romanian Principalities.

1478
marriage of Stephen the Great with Mary Voichița, daughter of Radu the Beautiful.

1478, November 8
death of Metropolitan Theoctistus I, who is buried at Putna.

1484
the first fire at Putna; Stephen the Great donates the Ascension dvera to Putna Monastery.

1487
the conclusion of the peace agreement with the Turks; Moldavians obtain the best possible status – House of Peace – in their relation with the Ottoman Empire.

1488, May 1
Stephen the Great places the silver-mounted skull of Saint Gennadius at Putna Monastery.

1497, 26 October (Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki)
Stephen defeats the Polish King John Albert at Cosmin Woods.

1498
Demetrius Ivanovici – grandson of Stephen the Great, born of the marriage of Helen, daughter of Stephen, with Ivan Ivanovici, son of Great Prince Ivan III of Moscow – is anointed and crowned as Great Prince of Moscow.

1502
the Holy Cross church of Volovăț is finished, on the site of the former wooden church founded by Prince Dragoș.

1503
the princely chancery issues the great privilege confirming all previous privileges, land holdings and rights of Putna Monastery.

1504, July 2
Stephen the Great reposes in the Lord and is buried at Putna Monastery.

1511
Eusthathius, Precentor of Putna, writes a Sticherarion, “his [original] work,” which represents the greatest collection of Byzantine music of his time.

1517, April 20
death of Bogdan III, buried at Putna Monastery; his son, Stephen the Young, succeeds him to the throne.

1519 (about)
the Chronicle of the Land of Moldavia is compiled and copied at Putna Monastery.

1536
a new fire bursts at Putna Monastery.

1546–1547
Anthony the Precentor writes at Putna a manual for teaching Byzantine music.

1581
“rhetorician and scholar” Lucaci from Putna writes his Rule, a compilation of ecclesiastical canons and rules with parts written in Romanian for the first time.

1653
Prince Basil Lupu dismantles the church of Putna Monastery in order to restore it.

1662
the restoration of the church of Putna Monastery ends “in the days of Prince Eustratius Dabija.”

1670
Bishop Theophan of Rădăuți and Huși is buried at Putna Monastery, where he had been tonsured, near the external wall of the Holy Altar.

1678, March 12
Saint Elias Iorest, Metropolitan of Transylvania, reposes in the Lord at Putna Monastery, where he had been tonsured, and is buried near the external wall of the Holy Altar.

1691
Jan Sobieski, King of Poland, invades Moldavia; his soldiers pillage and set Putna Monastery on fire.

1739
an earthquake causes great damages to the church of Putna Monastery and to the walls of the precinct.

1750, November 14
former Hegumen of Putna Monastery and Bishop of Rădăuți Jacob of Putna becomes Metropolitan of Moldavia.

1755
Metropolitan Jacob prints a “Bucvar,” the first Romanian primer printed in Moldavia.

1758
Bishop Dositheus Herescu consecrates the stone-church of Putna Hermitage, built by starets Silas.

1759
several dwellings and a wood-chapel dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul are built inside the monastery; at the proposal of Metropolitan Jacob of Putna the first rural primary school from Moldavia is established for the children of the village of Putna; the school is attested by documents and continues its mission to this day.

1778, May 15
Metropolitan Jacob reposes in the Lord, being buried in the porch of the church of Putna Monastery.

1783
after annexing Bukovina, the Habsburg Empire closes all monasteries and sketes in the region with the exception of Putna, Sucevița and Dragomirna; all land properties of the monasteries are transferred to the newly-established Church Fund.

1850
a new monastery cemetery is established by Archimandrite Artemon Bortnic.

1852–1856
renovation of Putna Monastery precinct; the new stone chapel dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is built.

1856
the Austrian authorities from Bukovina open the princely tombs from within the church of Putna Monastery and investigate them.

1871, August 15 (Dormition of the Mother of God)
the first national Celebration held at Putna, where Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici, Mihail Kogălniceanu, A. D. Xenopol, Ciprian Porumbescu took part.

1901–1902
the Austrian architect Karl Romstorfer restores the church of Putna Monastery.

1904
the second great national Celebration at Putna.

1905
Nicolae Iorga publishes the volume “Commemoration of Stephen the Great” and Demetrius Dan publishes the monograph “Putna Monastery and Putna village.”

1911
a museum is established at Putna Monastery, in order to shelter its treasures.

1918
the Union between Bukovina and Romania; in the following years, people from Transylvania and Bessarabia come on pilgrimages to Putna in great numbers.

1920
King Ferdinand, Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth visit Putna Monastery; the king gives a speech at the tomb of Stephen the Great, pleading for the union of all Romanians within Greater Romania.

1925
Orest Tafrali, Professor at the University of Iași, publishes in Paris Le trésor byzantin et roumain du Monastère de Poutna.

1926
the bust of Mihai Eminescu, made by Oscar Han, is inaugurated on the 8th of August Celebration, patronized by her Royal Highness Princess Ileana of Romania, the future nun Alexandra, founder of the first Romanian Orthodox monastery in the United States.

1940, July 1-3
Putna Monastery is saved from Soviet invasion by Major Valeriu Carp, whose battalion was close to Putna region.

1954
450 years since the repose of Stephen the Great; the first proposal for his canonization appears in the Biserica Ortodoxă Română bulletin of the Romanian Patriarchate.

1955–1956
vast archaeological excavations at Putna Monastery, preparing for its restoration.

1957
the inauguration of the new, reorganized museum of Putna Monastery.

1966
the first world celebration of 500 years since the foundation of Putna Monastery, at the proposal of UNESCO.

1969–1970
a new archaeological campaign and restoration at Putna Monastery.

1982–1988
on the initiative of Metropolitan Theoctistus, the future Patriarch of Romania, the Princely House of Putna is reconstructed; five graves are found beneath its foundations, with relics that seem to be of holy people from the end of the 14th century, supporting the hypothesis of an ancient hermitic community long before the time of Stephen the Great.

1990, May 15
the discovery of the relics of Venerable Silas, Paisius and Nathan, under the ruins of Putna Hermitage, through the efforts and care of Archimandrite Melchizedek Velnic.

1992
Stephen the Great and Daniel the Hermit are canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church, with feast days on the 2nd of July and the 18th of December, respectively.

2001, July 22
Archbishop Victorin Ursache of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada (1965-2001) is buried, according to his wish, at Putna Monastery.

2004
commemoration of 500 years since the repose of Saint Stephen the Great, a UNESCO celebration at the request of Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

2006
Zoe Dumitrescu Bușulenga, university professor and former vice-president of the Romanian Academy, who was tonsured a nun in the last years of her life, with the name of Benedicta, is buried, according to the wish expressed in her will, at Putna Monastery.

2007
celebration of 550 years since the enthronement of Stephen the Great.

2010, August 15
the new painting of Putna Monastery, which was started in 2001, is consecrated by Patriarch Daniel of Romania. The monastery receives its second feast day, Saint Stephen the Great.

2011
The League of Romanian Students from Abroad celebrated 140 years from the Putna Celebration.

2014–2015
the restoration of the precincts, of the Princely House and of the monastic quarters from the northern side, through a project financed with European funds.

2016, June 6-7
the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized Metropolitan Jacob of Putna, with feast day on the 15th of May, and his collaborators, venerable fathers Silas, Paisius and Nathan, with feast day on the 16th of May.

2016, June 15
exhumation of the remains of Metropolitan Jacob of Putna from the princely church porch, found with signs of incorruptibility.

2016, July 10
550 years since the laying of the foundational stone of Putna Monastery; the consecration of the new bells of the monastery.

2016, September 25
Patriarch John X of Antioch serves the Divine Liturgy at the monastery.

2017, May 14
glorification of the Putna Saints: Metropolitan Jacob of Putna and Venerables Silas, Paisios and Nathan.

2018
numerous activities related to the Centennial of Romania’s Great Union.

2019
celebration of 550 years from the consecration of the monastery and completion of the building of the “Metropolitan Jacob of Putna” Cultural Centre, initiated in 2016.

2021
anniversary series of events entitled “The Putna Celebration – 2021. Continuity of an ideal”, marking 150 years from the First Celebration of the Romanians from All Over the World, held in Putna in 1871.

2023
completion of the building of “Holy Hierarch Nicholas” Social House, initiated in 2021.