Historical place archive

St Quentin in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at St Quentin in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records1 event labels2 people1557–1940

Historical events in St Quentin

1557

1557
Battle of St Quentin
Francis Guise · Military

Leads an army into Italy to aid Pope Paul IV (and further his familys pretensions to the Angevin inheritance), but is recalled to France and made Lieutenant General of France after victory the Battle of St. Quentin

1940

30 August 1940
Battle of St Quentin
Charels Lanzerac · World War, 2nd

Forced back & abandons the objective of capturing St Quentin

Provenance

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