Orléans: All Data
Orléans 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
Orléans: 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.
453 AD
Mentioned in Event: Visigothic conquest of Orleans
464 AD
Mentioned in Event: Expansion of the Visigoths up to the Loire
464 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Orléans (463), part of Expansion of the Visigoths up to the Loire
511 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Orléans (Chlodomer)
561 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Orleans (Guntram)
594 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Orleans (Theuderic II)
597 AD
Mentioned in Event: War with Soissons
675 AD
Capital of Kingdom of the Franks
1428 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Orleans, part of Second English Campaign (Lancastrian War)
1485 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mad War
1563 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Orléans, part of French Wars of Religion
1789 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Orléanais, part of Kingdom of France
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Loiret, part of First French Republic
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Loiret, part of First French Empire
1870 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Invasion (Franco-Prussian War)
1870 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Government of National Defence
1870 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Orléans (1870), part of War of the Government of National Defence
1871 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Withdrawal (Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871)
1871 AD
Mentioned in Event: Unification of Germany (1871)
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fall Rot
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Operation Dragoon
1982 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Centre, part of French Fifth Republic
2016 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Centre-Val de Loire, part of French Fifth Republic