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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Basic timeline of Switzerland

This post is basic timeline of Switzerland. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Celtic tribes arrive (1500 BC)
• Roman Raetia province (15 - 476 AD)
• Alamannia (3rd century - 911 AD)
• Francia (481 - 843 AD)
• Carolingian Empire (800 - 888 AD)
• Lotharingia (855 - 959 AD)
• Upper Burgundy (888 - 933 AD)
• Old Swiss Confederacy (1300-1798)
• Swabian War (1499)
• Swiss Peasant War (1653)
• First War of Villmergen (1656)
• Toggenburg War (1712)
• France invades Switzerland (1798)
• Helvetic Republic (1798-1803)
• Act of Mediation issued by Napoleon Bonaparte (1803)
• Swiss Confederation (1803-1815)
• Restored Swiss Confederation (1814-1848)
• Sonderbund War (1847)
• Swiss Federal Constitution (1848)
• Neutral during World War I (1914-1918)
• Neutral during World War II (1935-1939)
• Free-trade agreement with European Economic Community (1972)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Switzerland at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Switzerland.)