1571: The eleven-year-old Erzsebet was engaged to the sixteen-year-old Ferencz Nadasdy (birthplace: Sarvar, Hungary); the match was arranged by his mother, Ursula Nadasdy. Nádasdy was a cruel warrior and in the expeditions against the Turk he took great pleasure in torture Turkish prisoners...as cutting their heads off and dancing with dead bodies. He should later have taught Erzsebet some torture technologies.

1574: Erzsebet became pregnant from an affair with a peasant; she was sequestered at a remote Bathory castle until the bastard, a daughter, was born. The child was adopted and raised by a peasant.

1575: Érzsebet married Count Ferencz Nadasdy on May 8th. She took over household affairs at Castle Sarvar, the Nadasdy family estate. Ferencz made war his "career", and began scoring victories against the Turks as early as 1578. He eventually earned the nickname "Black Knight of Hungary". He also lent the Hungarian Crown a great deal of money to finance the war against the Turks.
Elisabeth was 15 years old when she was married off and pulled on the families seat of Nádasdy, into the solitary hill country of the northwestern Hungary. To the wedding, spirituals of both confession were invited and made clearly that now the protestant Hungary reigned. Shortly before the wedding, it came however to a scandal. Nominally the king Matthias II is supposed to have come.

Some days before the wedding, he came drunk into the Érzsebet's bedroom. There she stood pulled just naked before a mirror and her servants... the bride dress which should try it on. The king evidently was confused and gave Erzsebet as an apology her marriage ring. After the occurrence, Elisabeth decayed into a tantrum and struck her servants so violently that they were with bloody wounds. This occurrence made the round in the complete lock which was filled already by hundreds of wedding guests. When her future spouse placed the king to the speech, the king demanded that jus prime noctis, the right of the 1st night.

1585: Erzsebet gave birth to the first of her three daughters, Anna. Count Nadasdy was a "professional soldier" and was not home very much. It's been told that Érzsebet was very bored with her lone family life she approached herself at the servants, especially at the young girls. The girls, coming into her service were usually not older than a 14 years. Elisabeth maintained to welcome them herself. Gradually Elisabeths inclinations became to strike and to humble the girls always more badly.

1598: The Countess' only son, Paul, was born. He had three older sisters: Anna, Orsika (Ursula), and Kato (Katherina). Helena Jo served as his wet nurse, as well as having been the nurse for his older sisters.

1594: Janos Ujvary "Ficzko" came into Erzsebet's service. He was a dwarflike cripple, and the only male servant who got to participate in torturing.
1604: Ferencz Nadasdy died on January 4th. Erzsebet moved to Vienna only four weeks after his death, shocking the royal court. She also began to spend time at estates at Blindoc (Beckov) [in Czech Republic] and Csejthe (Cachtice) [in Slovakia]. According to the terms of Ferencz's will, Paul was placed under the guardianship of Imre Megyery. The witch, Anna Darvulia, began serving Erzsebet sometime during this year; with her arrival, the torture and killings escalated. Érzsebet hurled her hateful mother-in-law Ursula Nádasdy out of the Castle and sent her 4 children whom she had with Franz, away. She now enjoyed life from this moment of its sadistic drives, full. She now tortured hundreds from girl to death. Her sadism arranged itself at the same time exclusively against girl or young women in its nearer environment. So she loved it to bite its servants and to tear them the meat of the bones. One of its nicknames was "tiger of Cachtice" after which lock named, in which she delayed herself predominantly. Torture methods different cruel moreover practice it with bliss. Sometimes the cruel Elisabeth stuck its servants needles into the body and under the finger nails or put them red-hot coins or key into the hand. Also, she let throw girls out in the winter into the snow and pour over with cold water so that they froze.

1607: After demanding for years that the Crown repay the debt owed to Ferencz, the Countess was so financially strapped that she was forced to sell her castle at Theben. At this point, the women in her employ began to actively procure girls, acting like "madams".

1609: In the winter, the Countess invited around twenty-five impoverished noblewomen to stay at Csejthe. Erzsebet accused one of them of killing others for jewelry and then committing suicide.

1610: Darvulia probably died during this year. Still having financial problems, Countess Bathory sold Castle Blindoc. The Bathory family secretly decided to spirit the Countess off to a convent for the rest of her days, but before this could be accomplished, Megyery deposed a formal complaint against her before the Hungarian Parliament. Inquiry into Erzsebet's crimes began late in the year by the Lord Palatine, Count Gyorgy Thurzo, who was her cousin, and one of the members of the Bathory family who had planned to have her retired to a convent. Thurzo raided Castle Csejthe and arrested Countess Bathory on December 30th.

King Matthias II of Hungary (1557-1619) continued to try and bring Erzsebet herself to trial, and took depostions from witnesses in July and December. However, her relatives lobbied very hard to keep a trial from actually taking place, and the king finally conceeded defeat. The Countess was walled up inside a small room in Castle Csejthe, with only a very small food hatch and a few ventilation slits. Although Matthias did seem quite outraged about Countess Bathory's crimes, his motives in wanting to bring her to trial more involved his desire to seize her lands and cancel the debt owed her husband by the Crown than any feelings of justice for the poor girls she murdered.

1611: Two trials in January. In the first trial, on January 2nd, only Erzsebet's accomplices were brought to trial. Three of them, Helena Jo, Dorka, and Ficzko, were found guilty, while the fourth, Katalin, was held pending "further evidence". The second trial, was convened on January 7th, and although Erzsebet petitioned the court to allow her to appear and defend herself against the charges, her cousin Thurzo would not allow her to appear and so disgrace the Bathory name. While the court condemned the Countess' actions, she was not actually to be punished. Helena Jo and Dorca had all the fingers torn out by a pair of red-hot pinchers, and were then thrown alive onto a fire. Ficzko was decapitated and then burned. Erzsebet attempted to escape to Transylvannia during the trial, and was consequently condemned by Thurzo to lifelong imprisonment in Castle Csejthe.

1614: Countess Bathory writes her last will and testament on July 31st. Later in the year, she was found face-down on the floor, dead, by one of her guards. The date is reported as either August 14th or the 21st.