Burdigala: All Data

Bordeaux: 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.

107 BC

Mentioned in: Battle of Burdigala

400 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Province of Septem Provinciae, part of Western Roman Empire

493 AD

Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)

497 AD

Mentioned in Event: First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)

507 AD

Mentioned in Event: Second Franco-Visigothic war (507-508)

732 AD

Mentioned in: Battle of the River Garonne, part of Frankish-Umayyad Wars

847 AD

Mentioned in: Siege of Bordeaux, part of Viking incursions

1453 AD

Mentioned in: Siege of Bordeaux (1453), part of French Reconquest (final phase of the Hundred Years' War)

1653 AD

Mentioned in: Battle of Bordeaux, part of Franco-Spanish War (1648-1659)

1789 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Province of Aquitaine, part of Kingdom of France

1803 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Department of Gironde, part of First French Republic

1812 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Department of Gironde, part of First French Empire

1870 AD

Mentioned in Event: German Invasion (Franco-Prussian War)

1940 AD

Mentioned in Event: Franco-German Armistice

1944 AD

Mentioned in Event: Operation Dragoon

1982 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Region of Aquitaine, part of French Fifth Republic

2016 AD

Subdivision Capital of the Region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, part of French Fifth Republic