Historical place archive

Thionville in History

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

5 records4 event labels4 people1558–1919

Historical events in Thionville

1558

June 1558
Capture of Thionville
Francis Guise · Italian War

French forces capture Thionville during the campaign against Habsburg positions

June 1558
Siege of Thionville
Francis Guise · Italian War

Guise's forces besiege Thionville during the 1558 campaign

1643

23 June 1643
Capture of Thionville
Enghien · Thirty Years War

Captures the fotress of Thionville to secure Lorraine & the Rhine valley

1689

23 December 1689
Birth of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin Boismortier · Music

Birth of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

1919

1919
Election
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman · MPR

First elected as Deputy to Parliament on a regional list, and later serving as the Deputy for Thionville until 1958

Provenance

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