{{Short description|Commune in Calvados, France}} {{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Formigny}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Formigny |image = Formigny, France, view of town from distance, June 2014.jpg |caption = The Town of Formigny, with the church. |arrondissement = Bayeux |canton = Trévières |INSEE = 14281 |postal code = 14710 |commune = Formigny La Bataille |coordinates = {{coord|49.3372|-0.8978|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation min m = 2 |elevation max m = 77 |area km2 = 10.86 |population = 252 |population date = 2019 |population footnotes = <ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019], INSEE</ref> }}
'''Formigny''' ({{IPA|fr|fɔʁmiɲi|-|Fr-Formigny.ogg}}) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Formigny La Bataille.<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/9/8/INTB1629487A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 8 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==History== *15 April 1450: Battle of Formigny. The battle of Formigny took place here and the French victory, marked the end of the Hundred Years War in Normandy. *In 1823, Formigny (487 inhabitants in 1821<ref name=ehess/>) absorbed Véret (70 inhabitants),<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|39387|Véret}}</ref> in the northwest of the territory. * In 1858, Engranville (228 inhabitants in 1856) is divided between Formigny - most of the territory - and Trévières, in the southeast.<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|12637|Engranville}}</ref> * 8 June 1944: Formigny was liberated by elements of US 1st Infantry Division during the initial breakout from Omaha Beach.
==Population==
{{Historical populations | align = none | cols = 2 | percentages = pagr | source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|14391|Formigny}}</ref> and INSEE (2007-2012)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2123878?geo=COM-14281 Populations légales 2012], INSEE</ref> | graph-pos = bottom |1793 | 538 |1800 | 338 |1806 | 519 |1821 | 487 |1831 | 500 |1836 | 539 |1841 | 537 |1846 | 527 |1851 | 552 |1856 | 491 |1861 | 641 |1866 | 617 |1872 | 600 |1876 | 629 |1881 | 572 |1886 | 540 |1891 | 556 |1896 | 544 |1901 | 540 |1906 | 535 |1911 | 452 |1921 | 418 |1926 | 403 |1931 | 378 |1936 | 383 |1946 | 350 |1954 | 342 |1962 | 324 |1968 | 299 |1975 | 256 |1982 | 241 |1990 | 233 |1999 | 244 |2007 | 257 |2012 | 244 }}
==See also== *Communes of the Calvados department
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://membres.lycos.fr/formigny The battle of Formigny] (in French)
{{authority control}}
Category:Former communes of Calvados (department) Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Category:Communes of France disestablished in 2017
{{Bayeux-geo-stub}}