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"Willkommen"SwitzerlandFamily History |
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| Switzerland, the Roman province of Helvetia | |
| 1033 | The Helvetia becomes
part of the Holy Roman Empire. Holy Roman Empire, the designation for the political entity that originated at the coronation as emperor (962) of the German king Otto I and endured until the renunciation (1806) of the imperial title by Francis II. The term itself did not come into usage until several centuries after Otto's accession. |
| 1291 | Formation
of
a defense league, The League of the Three Forest
Cantons, the basis of the Swiss Confederation, by cantons (states) of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden. |
| 1309 | Henry VII recognizes Swiss League. |
| 1315 | Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at Morgarten. The Swiss League renewed. |
| 1318 | Truce between Swiss League and Hapsburgs. |
| 1332 | Lucerne joins Swiss League. |
| 1351 | Zurich joins Swiss League. |
| 1352 | Glarus and Zug join Swiss League. Austria wars against Zurich. |
| 1353 | Bern joins the Swiss Confederation, which now consists of the 8 old cantons. |
| 1386 | Leopold III of Austria defeated and killed by Swiss at Sempach. |
| 1388 | Swiss defeat Leopold IV of Austria at Nafels. |
| 1403 | Valais joins Swiss League. |
| 1499 | Treaty of Basel grants the Swiss independence. |
| 1501 | Basle and Schaffhausen join the Confederation. |
| 1513 | Appenzell joins the confederation. |
| 1519 | The beginning of the
reformation in Switzerland dates from Zwingli's
lectures on the New Testament. |
| 1520 | The Anabaptists,
Protestants who baptized believers only and not
infants, grew as a movement in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. |
| 1524 | Ulrich Zwingli abolished the Catholic mass in Zurich. |
| 1525 | The Mennonites, a Protestant branch of the Anabaptists, were established in Zurich |
| 1526 | Zurich threatens followers of Anabaptists with penalty of death. |
| 1529 | Civil war commenced between
Catholic and the Reformed cantons in Switzerland.
The Catholics were ultimately defeated. |
| 1530 | Zurich orders death penalty for anyone harboring Anabaptists. |
| 1637 | Zurich banishes Anabaptists. |
| 1648 | The Swiss
Confederation obtained its formal independence from the
Holy Roman Empire. |
| 1690 | Children of Anabaptist marriages are refused rights of inheritance in Bern. |
| 1720 | Bern begins branding Anabaptists |
| 1798 | French armies, under
Napoleon, swept into Switzerland and established
the Helvetic Republic. Map of Switzerland in 1798 |
| 1803 | Swiss cantons regain their independence under terms of the Act of Mediation. |
| 1815 | Switzerland is established as an independent confederation of 22 cantons. |
| 1848 | A civil war (1847)
resulted in the transformation of Switzerland into a
more centralized federal state (Constitutions of 1848). |
| 1874 | The Constitution of
1874 completes the development of Switzerland to a
unified federal state. |
| 1979 | Areas from the canton of Bern attained independence from the Bernese, forming the new canton of Jura. |
| 1999 | On 18 April 1999 the Swiss population and the cantons voted in favour of a completely revised federal constitution. |
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