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Campaign comes from Italian campagna ‘field, military operation’, from Late Latin campānia ‘open country, battlefield’, and ultimately from Latin campus ‘field’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcampus¹‘field’
2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcampānia¹‘open country’
3. Italianc. 1300–presentcampagna¹‘field’
4. Frenchc. 1600–presentcampagne¹
5. Englishearliest quotation 1965campaign¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English campaign
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1965, Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller: “MILLER: Mr. President, I wonder if you could tell…”.