city Poitiers: All Data

Poitiers 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.

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Poitiers: 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.

493 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
497 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
630 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Aquitania (Franks)
701 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Aquitania
1356 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Poitiers, part of Hundred Years' War
1373 AD
Mentioned in Event: Caroline War
1789 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Poitou, part of Kingdom of France
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Vienne, part of First French Republic
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Vienne, 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: Operation Dragoon
1982 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Poitou-Charentes, part of French Fifth Republic