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| Région | Basse-Normandie |
| Département | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Lisieux |
| Cantons | 13 commune 15,933 habitants |
| Habitants | Honfleurais |
| Population( 1999) | 8,352 habitants |
| Population with double accounts( 1999) | 8,178 habitants |
| Metropolitan area | Caen, 12,738 |
| Agglomeration ( 2004) | Communauté de communes 15,933 habitants |
| Size | 13.67 km² |
The first written mention attesting the existence of Honfleur emanates from Richard III, duke of Normandy , in 1027Events March 26 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor. May 14 Henri I is crowned king of France at Reims Cathedral. Aldred becomes abbot of Tavistock. Births William I, king of England (1036-1087) Margrave Ernest the Brave of Austria Deaths 10. It is also proven that in the middle of the 12th century11th century 12th century 13th century other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. Events Song dynasty loses power over Northern China The Kamakura Shogunate deprives the, the city represented a significant transit point for goods from RouenRouen (population 110,000) is a city situated on the Seine river in Normandy, northern France. Population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine at the 1999 census was 518,316. Administration Rouen is the prefecture ( capital) of the Seine-Mari to EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England.
Located at the outlet of one of the principal rivers of France and in contact with the sea and supported by a relatively rich back country, Honfleur profited from a strategic position which appeared starting with the Hundred Years War. Charles V strengthened the town in order to close the estuary of the Seine to the English, with the support of the port close to Harfleur . Honfleur was however taken and occupied by the English in 1357 and from 1419 to 1450. Apart from this period, its as a basis port been used of departure for multiple French forwardings to therefore ransack the English coasts, with in particular the destruction partial of the town of Sandwich, in Kent, England, in the years 1450.
After the end of the Hundred Years War and the end of the 18th century, Honfleur underwent a boom in maritime trade, with however a disturbance at the time of the wars of religion of the 16th century. The city will take part thus in the movement of the great discoveries, with in particular the departure into 1503 of Binot Paulmierde Gonneville to the coasts of Brazil, the visit of what is now Newfoundland island and the mouth of the Saint Lawrence in 1506 by Honfleurais Jean Denis , or the departure of an expedition in 1608, directed by Samuel de Champlain, which ends to the foundation of the town of Quebec.
The old port: from this period, the trade of Honfleur thrives with the multiplication of links with Canada, the Antilles, the African coasts and the Azores, making the town one of the five principal ports for the slave trade in France. This period sees the town growing with the tearing down of part of its fortifications on the order of Colbert.
The wars of the French revolution and the First Empire, with in particular the continental blockade, cause the ruin of Honfleur, which was restored only partially during the 19th century with the revival of the trade of wood with north of Europe. This rise was however limited by the silting up of the port, which however manages to function still today.