Nantes: All Data
Nantes is a city in France and Monaco. 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
Nantes: 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.
492 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
492 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Nantes, part of First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
497 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
754 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Brittany (Frankish)
851 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Brittany
919 AD
Capital of Norman State in Brittany
943 AD
Capital of Duchy of Brittany (West Francia)
987 AD
Capital of Duchy of Brittany (France)
1167 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Brittany (Angevin Empire)
1341 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Breton Succession
1381 AD
Mentioned in Event: Caroline War
1426 AD
Capital of Duchy of Brittany (English Vassal)
1793 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Nantes (1793), part of War in the Vendée
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Loire-Inférieure, part of First French Republic
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Loire-Inférieure, part of First French Empire
1870 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Invasion (Franco-Prussian War)
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fall Rot
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Normandy
1982 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Pays de la Loire, part of French Fifth Republic
2016 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Pays de la Loire, part of French Fifth Republic