| 1912 | born on 2 February in the family of a railway clerk and a lace-maker in the village of Stará Turá in Slovakia |
| 1926 | enters apprenticeship training in the studio of Emanuel Procházka in Bratislava |
| 1937 | opens his own photographic atelier in Tatranská Lomnica gets engaged in portrait work, photographs of the mountains and gradually in reportage photo |
| 1947 | birth of Vladimír Koštial’s son |
| 1950 | Koštial’s atelier is nationalized |
| 1951 | begins to work with color photographs |
| 1954 | admitted to the Union of Czechoslovak Fine Artists |
| 1955 | publishes his first picture publication of the High Tatras |
| 1976 | his wife Júlia dies, and he basically stops taking photos |
| 2001 | dies 19 October in Tatranská Lomnica |