Liège: All Data
Liège is a city in Belgium. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Liège: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
962 AD
Mentioned in Event: Incoronation of Otto I
986 AD
Capital of Liege Prince-Bishopric
1273 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Cow
1279 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Cow
1702 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dutch and German Theatre (War of the Spanish Succession)
1747 AD
Mentioned in Event: Low Countries Theatre (War of the Austrian Succession)
1748 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
1794 AD
Mentioned in Event: Flanders Campaign
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Ourthe, part of First French Republic
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Ourthe, part of First French Empire
1914 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Offensive in Flanders (World War I)
1914 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Liège, part of German Offensive in Flanders (World War I)
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hundred Days Offensive
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: Central Front of the German Invasion of France (World War II)
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siegfried Line campaign
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Limburg, part of Kingdom of Belgium