city Antwerp: All Data

Antwerp 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.

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Antwerp: 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
1292 AD
Capital of Antwerp Margraviate
1567 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Oosterweel, part of Dutch Revolt
1574 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Lillo, part of Eighty Years' War
1579 AD
Mentioned in Event: The Union of Utrecht
1579 AD
Capital of Union of Utrecht
1584 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Antwerp (1584), part of The Union of Utrecht
1585 AD
Mentioned in Event: The Union of Utrecht
1585 AD
Mentioned in: Battle on the Kouwensteinsedijk, part of Eighty Years' War
1702 AD
Mentioned in Event: French campaign in Spanish possessions
1713 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Utrecht
1747 AD
Mentioned in Event: Low Countries Theatre (War of the Austrian Succession)
1748 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
1790 AD
Mentioned in Event: Brabant Revolution
1794 AD
Mentioned in Event: Flanders Campaign
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Deux-Nèthes, part of First French Republic
1803 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Deux-Nèthes , part of First French Republic
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Deux-Nèthes, part of First French Empire
1814 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Antwerp (1814), part of War of the Sixth Coalition
1831 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ten Days Campaign
1832 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Antwerp, part of Siege of Antwerp
1914 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Offensive in Flanders (World War I)
1914 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Antwerp (1914), part of World War I
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hundred Days Offensive
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Invasion of Belgium
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of the Scheldt
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siegfried Line campaign
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Antwerp, part of Kingdom of Belgium