Thursday, May 30, 2013
1291-08-01 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
1294-06-30 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1315-11-15 - Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1315-12-09 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1348-09-21 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1349-01-09 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1349-02-13 - Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1349-02-22 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1356-10-18 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386-07-09 - Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
1388-04-09 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1422-06-30 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1427-05-10 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1474-03-30 - Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1476-06-22 - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
1499-09-22 - Switzerland became an independent state.
1506-01-22 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1511-10-05 - Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1516-11-29 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
1525-01-21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1525-02-20 - Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army
1531-10-11 - Battle at Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic kantons beat protestant forces of Zurich
1531-10-11 - Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed at the Battle at Kappel
1544-04-14 - Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1558-01-09 - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1584-01-22 - Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1618-09-04 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1648-10-24 - Switzerland's independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia
1709-09-03 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1798-03-29 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1803-05-18 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1809-05-05 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1815-02-03 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1823-07-14 - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1845-11-29 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1848-02-29 - Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
1848-09-12 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1862-05-14 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1871-09-17 - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1874-05-29 - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1874-10-09 - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1880-02-29 - Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy completed
1882-05-20 - St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1893-08-20 - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1903-09-09 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1905-02-24 - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1906-05-17 - Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1906-05-19 - Dutch King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906-05-19 - Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1911-03-30 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1915-09-05 - Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1916-02-03 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917-04-03 - Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
1917-04-03 - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1919-02-03 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1920-02-08 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1920-02-13 - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1920-02-13 - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations
1922-01-21 - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
1923-10-16 - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1927-02-08 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1927-04-15 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928-02-11 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1928-02-19 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1932-11-09 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935-07-20 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938-11-16 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1939-09-01 - Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1939-09-01 - Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1940-08-14 - Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1941-05-13 - Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1943-04-19 - Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1945-04-28 - US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1948-01-30 - 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1948-02-08 - 5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1950-06-23 - Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
1951-09-20 - Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1954-06-15 - UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
1955-09-11 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1959-02-01 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1962-04-05 - St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963-09-04 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1965-08-30 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1966-06-26 - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1969-02-18 - PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1969-09-14 - Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1970-02-24 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1971-02-07 - Swiss men accept female suffrage
1978-03-01 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1978-03-03 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1979-01-01 - Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
1980-09-05 - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1982-09-06 - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1982-10-03 - Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1988-03-10 - Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles
1991-03-03 - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1992-12-06 - 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1994-06-18 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
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