Cambrai: All Data
Cambrai 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
Cambrai: 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.
1108 AD
Capital of Cambrai Prince-Bishopric
1339 AD
Mentioned in Event: First English Campaign (Edwardian War)
1339 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Cambrai (1339), part of Hundred Years' War
1580 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Cambrai, part of Eighty Years' War
1677 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Cambrai (1677), part of Franco-Dutch War
1815 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Seventh Coalition (The Hundred Days)
1870 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Invasion (Franco-Prussian War)
1871 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Withdrawal (Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871)
1871 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Government of National Defence
1914 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Offensive in Flanders (World War I)
1917 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Cambrai, part of World War I western Front
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hundred Days Offensive
1918 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Cambrai (1918), part of Hundred Days Offensive
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: Overall Frontline (Belgium and France)
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Operation Dragoon