When were vampires first mentioned in history?

In 1718, the practice of â??killing vampiresâ?? was noted in Austrian controlled Serbia and Oltenia. Between 1725 and 1735. Widely publicized tales of Serbian vampires and reports of villagers exhuming bodies and killing vampires were reported. The first written mention of the English term â??vampiresâ?? came in 1745 in a story called â??Travels of Three English Gentlemenâ??.