Region: Western Europe · Coordinates: 50.952, 1.856 · 29 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 1339 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The French naval fleet cruises along the coasts of Calais, Boulogne, Crotoy and Dieppe, raiding; the English are afraid of it. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Jean de Vienne entered Calais and saw the English army surrounding it. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | An envoy left the siege of Calais to go and carry out his mission. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The people inside the castle of Calais were struck by six attacks in a row. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The King of England decided to lift the siege of Calais and go home. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Edward III besieged Calais, around August 1346 (the text says: about the feast of the Beheading of St John). |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | After Crécy the English king began the siege of Calais. He called Calais 'one of the strongest cities in the world' and swore he would not leave. |
| AD 1346 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The English king besieged Calais (1346). |
| AD 1346 | Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations | Edward III's great fleet before Calais — assembly before Calais (based on the sentence mentioning the assembly before Calais) |
| AD 1346 | Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica | Edward III begins the siege of Calais (Galese in the source), blockading it by land and sea, which continues until summer 1347 |
| AD 1347 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Calais fell in 1347. The two versions differ (August or September), so the month field is left blank. |
| AD 1347 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The garrison of Calais sortied and pushed back the French army. Edward III captured Eustache de Ribeaumont. |
| AD 1347 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Jean de Vienne, captain of the Calais garrison, told the townspeople the terms they would have to ask of the English king; the people wept and mourned. |
| AD 1347 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Calais fell in August 1347, and the English king's side took the city. |
| AD 1347 | Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica | Calais surrenders: terms agreed on the 4th (foreigners in shirts, barefoot and with halters), and Edward III enters on the 5th. Food had run out and they had eaten even animals |
| AD 1359 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The English king declared he would invade France before winter and prepared a great army; his soldiers gathered toward Calais. |
| AD 1359 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The English king left Calais with his great army; the line of baggage carts stretched for more than two leagues. |
| AD 1360 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The English army went home, leaving King John II of France and his son Philippe at Calais; the ransom money was late, so four knights guarded the two. |
| AD 1360 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | The Black Prince and the Duke of Lancaster arrived at Calais around the feast of St John the Baptist and stayed, waiting for the French ransom money to come. |
| AD 1370 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Robert Canolles leaves Calais (around 1370). |
| AD 1383 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Jean d'Ewrues, captain of the Calais garrison, receives the Bishop of Norwich and his companions |
| AD 1396 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Two days later a rumour spreads that the Duke of Gloucester died in bed inside the castle of Calais. |
| AD 1396 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Richard II issued a charter at Calais recommending the French envoys (Châteaumorant and others) to the allies. |
| AD 1397 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | Because Richard II had Gloucester killed in Calais castle, among other things, most of the nobles hate the king. |
| AD 1399 | Chronicles of Jean Froissart | French envoys, in the name of King Charles VI, demand that his daughter Isabelle be returned before the truce (trêve) ends, at a midpoint between Calais and Boulogne. |
| AD 1470 | Commynes, Memoirs | When the Earl of Warwick tries to enter Calais, the lieutenant governor Lord Wenlock does not receive him and fires cannon |
| AD 1470 | Commynes, Memoirs | At Calais it is agreed to maintain the alliance between Burgundy and England — with Henry in place of Edward |
| AD 1475 | Commynes, Memoirs | Edward IV embarks at Dover and lands at Calais; embarking and landing the troops takes three weeks |
| AD 1475 | Commynes, Memoirs | King Edward of England lands at Calais and the Duke of Burgundy goes to Calais to receive him |