1206 or a few years later, St. Albert, the patriarch of Jerusalem, writes the rule and hands it over to the settlers on Mount Carmel. This is the first authentic testimony of the order.
1225 In this year, a French pilgrim describes "a very beautiful church of our dear Lady" of the hermits on Mount Carmel. This is evidence of a truly ancient Marian tradition.
1226 Pope Honorius III recognizes the rule of St. Albert.
1238 Due to the significant increase in raids by Saracens over the previous decade, the order begins to relocate to Europe. The first monasteries are founded in Cyprus (La Frontaine) and Sicily (Messina).
1247 The first general chapter of the order in England. Pope Innocent IV obliges bishops to accept Carmelites into their dioceses.
1247 On October 1st, the rule of St. Albert is confirmed and moderated by the Holy See. At this time, the Carmelites are first referred to as an "order".
1252 The title "Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel" first appears.
1256 Simon Stock (*May 16, 1265), to whom the Virgin Mary traditionally gave the Carmelite scapular, is elected the general of the order.
1281 General chapter in London. New constitutions (the oldest that have survived) and the first references to the Elijah tradition in the order.
1291 Acre, the last bastion of Western Christianity, falls into the hands of the Saracens. The monastery on Carmel and all other monasteries in the Holy Land are lost.
1298 Pope Boniface VIII definitively confirms the Carmelites.
1347 Charles IV establishes the first house in Bohemia on the occasion of his coronation as King of Bohemia.
1381 The Carmelite order is divided between the pope and the antipope.
1411 Under the prior Johanna Grossi, the order reunites again. The Czech province is established, but it has only a brief existence.
1442 Pope Nicholas V gives permission to establish monasteries for sisters.
1455 The first constitutions for sisters are published in the Netherlands.
1459 Pope Pius II moderates the regulations concerning fasts.
1515 On March 28, Teresa of Avila (†1582) is born.
1538 Time of the Protestant Reformation and the suffering of many people. 38 Carmelite monasteries are dissolved in England. A year later, the same happens to 25 Irish monasteries.
1560 10 Carmelite monasteries in Scotland are dissolved or secularized. In the following years, many monasteries in France are destroyed by religious wars.
1568 John of the Cross and Anthony of Jesus establish the first reformed monastery in Duruelo.
1593 Pope Clement VIII confirms the division of the order into the reformed Teresian Carmel and the original branch.
1627 The Carmelites return to Bohemia. They receive the church in Prague near St. Havel.
1746–52 Construction of the monastery in Kostelní Vydří. In 1781, Joseph II abolishes contemplative orders in Austria-Hungary as useless. This affects 700 houses and 38,000 religious, including Carmelite houses in Prague and Chyše.
1792 During the French Revolution, the local monasteries are dissolved.
1794 In Paris, sixteen Discalced Carmelite nuns publicly renew their vows before their execution. At the same time, they offer their lives as a sacrifice for the end of the reign of terror. Their deaths actually mark the end of the executions in France.
1834 Monasteries in Portugal are abolished, a year later in Spain.
1841 The last Carmelite in Germany lives, and it can be said that in the nineteenth century the order practically dies out.
1864 The first monastery in the USA is established in Kansas.
1909 Monasteries are established in Australia (Middle Park, Victoria).
1908 Kostelní Vydří is established as a Carmelite monastery, and on the invitation of Bishop Pavel Huyn from Brno, the first brothers come here. The prior was P. Telesford Hardt.
1920 German Carmelites leave for Austria.
1931 P. Prokop Valena, a native of Prostřední Vydří, becomes the prior and parish priest in Vydří.
1931 P. Metoděj Fr. Minařík arrives in Vydří and is appointed chaplain.
1947 P. Melichar L. Karásek, a native of Kostelní Vydří, also arrives.
1950 On the day of the Finding of the Holy Cross (May 3), P. Valena and P. Minařík are taken to a detention camp in the Želiv monastery.
1971 On June 6, † P. Valena
1985 On May 26, † P. Karásek – long-time parish priest in Kostelní Vydří.
1990 On the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the monastery in Kostelní Vydří is reopened.
